12 Actually Funny Reactions About A-Level Results Day
A-level results day has arrived – and, as usual, the internet is full of people either sharing their own accomplishments or sending lengthy commiserations to those who may not have secured the grades they wanted.
Plenty of people share their own stories about receiving their grades as headlines up and down the country reveal the proportion of A or A* grades has fallen from 44.8% at the pandemic peak to 27.2% this year.
That’s hardly a surprise though, as the government had been planning to bring grades back to pre-pandemic levels.
Still, X (formerly known as Twitter) is currently flooded with users (including celebrities) revealing the minimal impact their A-level results had on their own successful lives.
And while it is definitely an important day for those who receive their results, the occasion tends to turn into a competition online.
Jeremy Clarkson, for instance, rolled out his annual tweet reminding everyone that he got a C and 2Us at A-level – and yet he has “loads of friends and a Bentley” and “my own brewery”.
Meanwhile education secretary Gilligan Keegan was also criticised for suggesting employers won’t ask about students’ A-level grades within 10 years of their graduation.
Labour’s shadow education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, said she was being “rude and dismissive” and “talking down England’s young people”.
So if you’re fed up of seeing this endless dialogue about A-levels and just how much they matter, here are 12 actually funny tweets (or X reactions) to lift your mood:
Don’t worry if your results aren’t what you wanted. I got ABBA, and I still work all night and work all day to pay the bills I have to pay.
— TW!?K (@imcxllumbtw) August 17, 2023
results day pic.twitter.com/VPmRw5M2e1
— Lucy (@LMAsaysno) August 17, 2023
Don’t worry about your A Levels! I got A*A*AA and now I’m a corporate shill spending half my income on rent in London ☺️☺️☺️
— S (@carbdiem) August 17, 2023
Celebrities realising it’s A level results day and they can do an inspirational tweet about their life achievements pic.twitter.com/5ByqYFQ3O0
— Alan White (@aljwhite) August 17, 2023
clarkson waking up on a-level results day pic.twitter.com/XWnxAwbRkA
— Aidan James (@mcandidate) August 17, 2023
Remember kids, your future prosperity does not need to be determined by your A level results. You could just marry a billionaire’s daughter like I did.#alevels2023
— Parody Rishi Sunak (@Parody_PM) August 17, 2023
If you didn’t get the A-level results you wanted, remember that we’re only a few years away from the collapse of organised human life
— Frankie Boyle Updates (@frankieboyle) August 17, 2023
Good luck to all A Level students today trying to dodge photographers catching them mid-jump with their results in the air.
— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) August 17, 2023
Your annual reminder that A level students are almost certainly not reading your humblebrag results tweets
— Matthew Thompson (@mattuthompson) August 17, 2023
I always enjoys those comments on A level day, from people who say ‘Don’t worry if you don’t get the results you hoped for. I failed all my exams and now I’m President of Tunisia and own my own hovercraft!’
— Mark Steel (@mrmarksteel) August 17, 2023
My life has demonstrated that A-Level results are no barrier to mediocrity.
— Sandy Boyes (@SandyBoyes) August 17, 2023
On A level results day, this gem deserves retweeting https://t.co/TPMrntPc8F
— pete (@pjd23272) August 17, 2023