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Kent students speak out about A-level pressures on results day
KentOnline / KMTV
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15/08/2024
Now that students up and down the country are getting their A-Level results, Kent's latest batch tell us how they feel after their exams, Daisy Page reports.
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I was relieved once I opened my results.
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I'm feeling happy that I got into university.
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Not too bad.
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Yeah, decent. I'm alright.
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This is the reaction of a few students who have received their results today.
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Family, friends and teachers have come together today
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at the Thomas Avon Lim School to celebrate each other's achievements.
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There are high emotions today as students are collecting their A-Level,
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T-Level and BTEC results across Kent and Medway,
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but is there too much pressure put on their final grades?
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Yes and no. It's the pressure of wanting to do well, I think,
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because you think going to university, if you do your apprenticeship,
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it's the pressure that you put on yourself,
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but the school, thankfully, were able to sort of relieve all of that.
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I found that I've put a lot of pressure on myself,
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because I'm a bit of a perfectionist,
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so I hold myself to quite a high standard.
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In terms of teachers, I think the most pressure you get
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is just what they believe you can achieve.
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Personally, I didn't feel too much pressure,
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but a lot of people I know felt a lot of pressure towards it during the exams.
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I didn't feel any pressure, really.
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I never felt the pressure, because I don't BTECs,
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and I knew what I'm good at, I'm good at.
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With 91% of secondary school teachers in England concerned
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that their students worry about their results deciding their future,
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should students be uneasy about their next steps?
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I think they all have such a high expectation of themselves,
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and that's actually a really lovely quality to have in general,
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but I was just having a conversation with a student.
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When you have high expectations,
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sometimes you're bound to be disappointed throughout your life,
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so it's difficult to take those little pits and then build again,
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but ultimately, all qualifications are stepping stones into the next stage of life,
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so they need to gain and get what they've learned,
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and then move forward, so try and see the positives.
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And while many smiles have been shared today
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as four in five students have got their university of choice,
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for some, they may not have received the grades they would have hoped for.
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Going to school, we are kind of taught,
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and we feel that our perfect vision of life
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is a lovely, positive trajectory into fabulousness and happiness.
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Actually, life is pretty complicated,
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so if they didn't get the grades today,
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I think everything happens for a reason.
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Get the things that you've learned from them,
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whether you feel that you didn't revise enough,
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or whether you think that actually you weren't enthusiastic,
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or things just didn't work out,
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or there was a particularly bad question on that particular paper,
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that doesn't define you as a person.
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Many now have the decision on what to do next,
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from going to university, looking for full-time employment,
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or taking the year out being a few options.
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There are many great possibilities for the class of 2024.
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Daisy Page for KMTV.
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