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Posted: 16th Aug 2007 12:50 Edited at: 16th Aug 2007 13:15
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This time of year again, and the A Level dudes in the UK have got their results, so what did everybody get.

I did crap in my opinion, so did a lot of my friends, but hey we learned the hard way that you can work your arse off to get things to what the teachers like and then turns out that your standard isn't as high as they say it is...And well we concluded a long time a go that our teachers were crap anyway. Though of course they're not entirely to blame.


I got:

A Level - English Language - D (I expected better, I worked really hard to get this one up, because my University requirement was a C, I studied into my subject more and did a lot of work with the Editorial Writing section, and got a 'U' for that module, which I found surprising because in the Mock I got a D and I corrected my mistakes from the mock...)
A Level - English Literature - D (Now this was a surprise, I got E's for my AS Level on this subject)
A Level - Religious Studies - C (Was annoyed by this, not to sound arrogant, but I'm really good at this subject and was getting A's B's in the mocks and my AS results was CAA, so I expected more)


So when I came out I felt disappointed and worried about my University place, because I needed a C in either English Language or Literature...However I've made my post a bit negative to build up to the fact I just checked my UCAS and well...

I got into Derby University!!! And I'll be heading off in a months time. (on the 15th September)

Just as evidence, my acceptance stuff:



So, what about everybody else in 'da hood'?

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Well I don't know what all those grades mean but good luck with your journey to uni! I too have just recieved an e-mail from a college out in Arizona, I'm one step closer to attending school again! Woot! So good luck Seppuku and I hope you do well in your schooling.

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Cheers, congrats and good luck with the college in Arizona mate.

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Thanks..I'm anxious to get out there and prove myself, I hear its a dog eat dog industry and I'm getting mighty hungry *goes for steak sauce*

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Haha, well I can't wait myself either, but hey, I'm off 15th Sept. As for proving yourself, it is difficult in this world, what I'm going into is quite a challenging one to stick out from the rest, but hey, such is life.

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Amen..I'll drink to that later today, haha you can all finally see my crazy ass, I posted a pic of me with my longer hair in taken this past july at my sis's sweet sixteen. Its over in the new gf post.

Anyway..on topic, I know its tough out there I've been there. Believe it or not as a cook its hard to prove yourself and I've found out that there are many shortcuts in the cooking biz and I do believe I was the only one who stuck to my morals in that kitchen. Whatever dude, I see you're going for creative writing thats really cool I know you'll do well. We both have some crazy industries to get in but I'm sure we'll make it and if I don't when I can just be the crazy cook who sings and dances and makes games for a hobby at the greatest community online today, TGC. Good luck mate.

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Quote: "Believe it or not as a cook its hard to prove yourself and I've found out that there are many shortcuts in the cooking biz and I do believe I was the only one who stuck to my morals in that kitchen."


Move to where I live, there are plenty of chef jobs going around, all you need to be here is a good cook and then you'll get a job easily. My brother is a very good chef, so when he wants to change job he literally gets new one instantly, he's actually working in the highest restaurant in the area at the moment. So Cambridgeshire is probably a good place to be if you want to cook, unfortunately you live in America and I'm sure you'll find the right career oppurtunity.

As for shortcuts, a good chef/cook doesn't make shortcuts, they do it properly, when I was 15 I worked in a restaurant as a kitchen assistant and they chefs didn't make shortcuts, they just practised to get quicker, I think the only guy to make shortcuts was actually a bad cook, who got into the business because he thought it would be 'easy' and then he always wondered why the head chef put him on to do deserts.

Quote: "Whatever dude, I see you're going for creative writing thats really cool I know you'll do well. We both have some crazy industries to get in but I'm sure we'll make it and if I don't when I can just be the crazy cook who sings and dances and makes games for a hobby at the greatest community online today, TGC. Good luck mate."


Haha, cheers, I'm just glad all of the major publishers are in the UK, like Future for magazines and Penguin books

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Quote: "Move to where I live, there are plenty of chef jobs going around, all you need to be here is a good cook and then you'll get a job easily. My brother is a very good chef, so when he wants to change job he literally gets new one instantly, he's actually working in the highest restaurant in the area at the moment. So Cambridgeshire is probably a good place to be if you want to cook, unfortunately you live in America and I'm sure you'll find the right career oppurtunity.
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Yea used to be like that for me but now a lot of places are filled up and my secondary skill as a cook is dwindling, but a new hope has arisen for me. I've been in food for six years now so finding a job has never been too hard for me, I'm currently applying to work as a meat slicer *yea build strong muscles grrr* at a local supermarket. And another restaraunt is opening up soon about a mile or two from me so I'll go apply as a part-time cook if I'm already a slicer. The place I did work at was great..good benefits and all that, but some of the people were just f***ing jerks, walking out in the middle of an overpacked friday night..who does that? I eventually left because I was one of the best there and they said it too, I did everything for them on the drop of a dime and I usually stayed long after others had left from closing to tidy up more, I left at around 2 to 3 am sometimes from a shift that started at four. So when they took me off of my flat *which had a great location as I could help saute, app, and grill at all times* and I talked with them nicely and gently and they nicely and gently said we don't need you anymore I was gone, plain and simple I signed to be a cook and all that but not to be their lackey they could throw around. Wow..sorry Seppuku, didn't mean to rant like that.

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Haha, no problem, we all rant when the opportunity arises. Just don't mention road accidents or drivers because you'll start me off (again).

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Hahaha no problem there mate, lets see its seven am here and its nearing that time for my daily bike run...ah the sweet burn of exercise so I'll be seeing you guys later. Good luck and congrats again.

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Let's see...

A for Information Technology
D for Religion
C for Science
B for Maths
A for Sports Science
C for History

Uhhh, there's probably more, can't remember though.

Wasn't happy with Religion getting a "D", one of my mates got an "A", and I do double the work that he does! (But his dad is the Religion Co-ordinator, so, maybe some executive treatment! )


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6?! What's going on there?

I got 1 UMS mark of my Maths A A-Level...but doing further maths so can get more points still. (D in M2...crap at M2 for some reason :S A's & B's in Core and M1)

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He's an Aussie, doubt it's for his A Levels (As he's got 6 qualifications there, I struggled with 3 A Levels for goodness sake ), but congrats to both of you.

Quote: "Wasn't happy with Religion getting a "D", one of my mates got an "A", and I do double the work that he does! (But his dad is the Religion Co-ordinator, so, maybe some executive treatment! )"


Sounds the same here, I've got similar results (though mine are on the better end) of this one person who barely works, though two of his subjects were AS and one was a full A-Level, but still, he's pretty lazy, any group presentations for Religion (AS and A2's are mixed in this subject here) the person who worked with him would be let down, we had to do one on the Problem of Evil and I was paired up with him and the other lazy dude, I ended up doing literally all of the work and they made a public apology which was good, but he didn't learn as the next project he did with someone else had a similar outcome.


But instead of ranting, we should all be happy and excited. We got our results, think, all of the stress is relieved for a little while! Now lets all get naked, drunk and party until we're purple! Except I'm broke, so Zombie, could you do the honours and buy me a drink or two or twenty.

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I screwed up my A-levels by not turning up. I got B Computing, D Maths and E Physics. Was always a straight A/B student, so should've done a lot better, but I just never went.

All you gotta do is make sure you come up with a good excuse for your A-Level results, because employers will care. I used some rubbish about illness and splitting up with a girlfriend and loads of other crap. In reality, I hated my subjects and couldn't be arsed to apply myself so only had about 60% attendance.

Employers will still care about your A-Levels after your degree. The trick is, tell whatever lie you have to so employers don't think you lack in ability or motivation. It's then up to them whether they believe you or not! It does help if you have a 2-1 or 1st for your degree though. If you have a poor degree result and poor A-Levels, you better be DAMN good at lying.

Uhh, but anyways. Good job on getting to uni mate. Do yourself proud there.


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Quote: "All you gotta do is make sure you come up with a good excuse for your A-Level results, because employers will care. I used some rubbish about illness and splitting up with a girlfriend and loads of other crap. In reality, I hated my subjects and couldn't be arsed to apply myself so only had about 60% attendance."


Well, I think I do have a good enough one, teachers cancelled too many lessons and teachers kept swapping with each other meaning we had to keep them up-to-date (Swapping due to other teachers leaving, or on Maternity and Paternity leave, it's a real pain when all in the same year all 4 of your English teachers have to leave, 1st it was Maternity Leave, then Paternity leave, then another got a new job and the other's father got really ill and later died, which was very problematic, editorial writing was a unit we didn't get much time on, no wonder I got a 'u' for it, just as well that I worked my arse off, giving up my life to do, otherwise I would have failed both English subjects)

As for the skills in lying, well, to tell you the truth, I am not actually English, I'm from Planet Zod in a faraway galaxy, but I had you lot fooled, now didn't I?

As for uni results, luckily it's in the thing I have the most passion for, the one I have loved since I was 7 and enjoy the most, so I'm sure I'll apply myself well enough to get decent uni grades and hopefully 'wow' any future employers, my plan is when I leave uni is to immediately apply for a job at a future publishing magazine. (Though I'd have to move to Bath)

Quote: "Uhh, but anyways. Good job on getting to uni mate. Do yourself proud there. "


Cheers buddy.

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Quote: "I screwed up my A-levels by not turning up"
Heh, I remember for GCSEs I managed to miss 2 (my sister missed all of them). And forgot to hand in 2 year long projects. I always wondered why I got an "E" in geography when the teacher gave me the harder exam (only 4 of us in entire year) and said I was almost definitely going to get an "A". Apparently an "E" was the best they can give you without a project. Fifteen years later or so and it was like *Ping* Hmmm. I didn't actually do anything for the final year geography project. Not even research or anything. Totally blanked it out of my mind in fact (computer project ruled all - a game of course - although I managed to get a "B" in Maths, because I did the year long project the night before. Heh) Oh, yes, that's why I got a sucky mark in geography...

Then in Uni I remember going out on the lash the day before the statistics exam. I woke up about half an hour into the exam. I ran down to the hall wearing jeans and a t-shirt. In december. Was bloody freezing, but didn't really notice. Plus I was really hung over and tired. Ended up doing the exam on the desk of the lecturer with his pen and a 20 year old calculator as a ruler. Good times

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Maths - A
Geography - A
History - A

Hell yes my friends.

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Cheeky b******, well done though.

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A Levels: 5 A's (Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Chemisty, Gen St)

AEA: Physics, Merit

STEP: Maths II, 3 (quite proud of that considering I didn't prepare that much for it)

I'm off to Cambridge to do Comp Sci.

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Quote: "Wasn't happy with Religion getting a "D", "

When one person suffers from delusions, its called insanity. When a large group of people suffer from the same delusion, its called religion. Mark Twain (I think)
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Careful with that one, I'm sure you may accidentally offend (though I'm religious and found that funny, but not everybody in the world takes things in the same light ) That also sounds a bit Freudian to me as well, though he believed insanity and religion were delusions/neuroses cause by repressed sexual desires, I mean what's with that guy and sex? Did his mother not breast feed him?

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LMAO ROFLCOPTER LOLZZZZ ZOMG 1337 TEH aWseOME!!!- Hahaha yea I so went there.

Sorry..I love when people talk about Freud, he was so f****ing funny to me, have you ever heard of his theory about why men are so obsessive about their size? Truly a man to marvel at for a unique train of thought.

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Got two 1s in STEP II and III.

Cambridge Maths

See you at fresher's week David

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You mean FAF week right?

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Where-did-that-week-go week?

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Don't worry, my A=level spelled NUN

Highschools just don't know how to teach A'levels

Those people with straight A's will have had private education I bet

I still went to Uni with my NUN and got a BSc 1st Hons in Computing

I'll know in a month or so if I get a MSc 1st Hons to match it

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Luciferia, careful what you say. Do it again, and I might have to newb slap you.
We don't like talk of religion around here, it always falls into flame wars.
End of discussion.

For our A-Levels equivalent, I was ranked 88.85 out of our state. 100.0 is the person with the best score, then it goes down by .01 person till 30.0 where anything below is just counted as 30.0

I was quite proud

We don't actually get our results for individual tests back (at least, I don't remember getting it...)

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Oh, I forgot to mention I was acclaimed as the smartest person of all time, but decided not to accept the award as I thought it would be too big headed of me, so then they offered me the most modest person of all time award, which I accepted .. which was in fact a trick, as I was instantly disqualified for accepting the award. So now I have no proof, only my word, but luckily all of you believe me, so let's say no more about it.


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bwhahahahahahahah!

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Quote: "Highschools just don't know how to teach A'levels"


Glad we're on the same page, because I totally agree with you...This is the point where I wish Long Road Sixth Form college accepted me, but apparently where I live isn't 'Cambridge' enough for them to take priority. Though I got into University, so it's not all bad. Shame about your results mate.

Quote: "Oh, I forgot to mention I was acclaimed as the smartest person of all time, but decided not to accept the award as I thought it would be too big headed of me, so then they offered me the most modest person of all time award, which I accepted .. which was in fact a trick, as I was instantly disqualified for accepting the award. So now I have no proof, only my word, but luckily all of you believe me, so let's say no more about it.
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That was a little unfair, they should have wired £100,000 to your bank account in reward for being so modest, so you'd have no choice about receiving the money. But hey I'm the guy with sense and not those posers that give out awards.

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Quote: "Highschools just don't know how to teach A'levels"


Damn, I'm studying A Levels at high school after this year. Oh well I better worry about my GCSE's first.
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Quote: "That was a little unfair, they should have wired £100,000 to your bank account in reward for being so modest, so you'd have no choice about receiving the money. But hey I'm the guy with sense and not those posers that give out awards."


Damn straight!


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Damn, I'm studying A Levels at high school after this year. Oh well I better worry about my GCSE's first. "


I'm sure there are good ones, but I've found mine was pretty bad, what I would do is study as much as you can away from class, like look up the topic you're studying, head down to the library, grab a book on it (or look on the net) and study it - luckily AS's are easier than A2's. What subjects are you studying anyway?

Oh and good luck with your GCSEs.

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Quote: "Got two 1s in STEP II and III.

Cambridge Maths

See you at fresher's week David "


One of my friends needed 1,1 in II and III to get into Peterhouse to do maths... she didn't make it unfortunately.

However another of my friends did step II and III for fun and got S,S. He already has an unconditional place at Christ's for Maths. Which college are you going to? Think it might be Trinity?

I was quite proud of my lowly 3!!

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Quote: "I forgot to mention I was acclaimed as the smartest person of all time"
LOL. Nice one.

So no-one got my FAF reference then? Did you all to college with brief cases and commute every day from your parents or something? It's not math camp now you know...

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Quote: "Which college are you going to? Think it might be Trinity?"


God no my brother is at Trinity that was first off my list...

I'm going to Jesus, I just picked it pretty much randomly. It's nice and old though, plus it's pretty central.

I was pretty please with 1's, I had a gap year, so I was pretty lucky to get an offer (for Maths) at all, they don't actually give out deferred places. Went round the world for three months, had to fly back from New York a week early to revise, because I was terrified I had forgotten everything.

Step II I was pretty certain I got a 1, Step III I really didn't know, thought I could have edged an S or got a 2. In the end the grade boundaries were a lot higher this year than normal, that's sick someone got two S's, one of them you needed like 97 marks, that's five perfect answers...

Kind of regret applying for Maths now I think I want to change to CompSci

First thing the guy said at my interview (I said in my section 10 I was working as a programmer) was "Why aren't you applying for Computer Science>". I was like

Ho hum maybe I can do two years of each or something.

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Im estimated an A in GCSE science ^^

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Nice one, I got a B for mine when I did my GCSEs, I would have gotten an A if my coursework wasn't a D - but hey I got fed up with the write up, the experiments were fun though, on the physics one I dared my friend to turn up the power up higher than the teacher said was our limit and melted the wire but managed to cover up the mess with out her noticing.

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People who do exceptionally at exams are likely to be good at exams, not talented in the subject. Just because they can remember all that info doesn't mean they can use it. And all these long, heavy writing exams are biased towards the female gender who could talk all day if they had too. No wonder male students are less likely to suceed.


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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haha...yeah, it's true though, exams often seem to just be a test of memory - even at uni last year we had one 3 hour paper with 400 multiple choice questions all of them asking stupidly specific questions which you either had memorised, or (As was the case most of the questions) had not....

Also, the easy exam technique in maths/physics papers is just to do all the past papers, memorise all the answers, and then when you get a similar question on your paper, just regurgitate the method swapping the numbers which migh have changed. Examiners have little imagination when it comes to setting questions...

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Good point, I've never really liked exams anyway, hence my Uni course is coursework based. I can remember info, facts etc. under the conditions you feel too restricted and changing your mind can be a problem. With the exam I got a 'U' I felt most relaxed in because the teacher taught us exactly what we should be doing at each time phrase and I practice the skill and prepared my pre-release resource material - but the examiners didn't quite like what I gave them though, though everything I did had a purpose - Active sentences when addressing sharks, shorter sentences for more breaks so the reader can chunk info and so on, basically doing everything I was taught. Or at least that's how I felt. So I think coursework is better as you can work your arse off and have people give you an opinion on your work before the examiner marks it so you can head in the right direction instead of working your arse off and then making mistakes in the last 3 hours that decide your results.

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Hmm I dunno I'm at uni now and I love exams - means I can spend the whole year lazing around not doing any work, and then pass the year by cramming at the last possible moment. It's got me through the first two years of CompSci on track for a 2-1. I hate these pesky coursework things - they actually require me to work for my degree!?!
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Cheeky, some of us work our butts off to pass an exam.

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Good for you man...


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Heh, well my opinion was different at A-Level, I took computing (which was easy, got an A in every exam I think, but got a B overall as I tried making a game for my coursework when it was more geared towards databases) physics (which was hard) and electronics (which was also hard). I also took psychology for AS but dropped it when I got a C overall due to one exam, when I had been predicted an A. So back then I would probably have agreed with you. I guess it depends on the structure of the exam, I think if I was doing something that required long essay writing for the exams my opinion would also be greatly different.

Anyway, grats on your results and good luck at Uni.
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Quote: "I also took psychology for AS but dropped it when I got a C overall due to one exam, when I had been predicted an A."


Similar thing, got a D predicted a B, dropped it for A2's, it was the Research methods section that weighed me down the most. But hey, it got me an extra 40 points on my UCAS tariff.

Quote: "So back then I would probably have agreed with you. I guess it depends on the structure of the exam, I think if I was doing something that required long essay writing for the exams my opinion would also be greatly different."


Now you're making sense, all of my exams were long essay based.

Quote: "Anyway, grats on your results and good luck at Uni."


Cheers dude.

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I imagine A-levels are the equivalent of Pre-tertiary studies here in Australia? Courses that count towards Uni acceptance?

Most of our courses are marked out of 21 points (at least here in Tassie). I didn't work to hard in college and these are my scores lol...

Maths - 9.2 hahaha I suck at maths
Art - 13.0 I was expecting more but hey, I'm lazy.
Computer Graphics - 18.5 got the college award
History - 18 another award...
English - 18.5 Some girl got 21 full points.

Went to Uni for 1 and a half years then deferred because I got bored of doing arts!! Now I'm hoping Griffith Uni will accept me to do Game Design...

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The problem I had with A levels was you had to remember 2 years of work for a single exam. It is just a test of memory. At least in my degree i only had to rember 3 months work per module, i've never had multiple choice though, everythings been like 1 exam with 4 essays in 3hrs, + 2 coursework assignments

Genral studies A level was a complete waste of time. the lesson involved dumping the class in the library and being told to read! You had no idea what would be on a Genral Studies paper it could be any topic in the world! WTF! Who thought up that evil exam! I can remmber one question was on classical music and another was on gravitational physics how anyone gets an A* in that without being told before hand whats on the paper is beyond me, you can't know everything in the world!

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Are the A-Levels like the SAT, SAT II, and ACT tests here in the states, or are they like the AP exams?
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A'levels is similar to the Advanced Placement (AP) tests.

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