Remember collecting your A-Levels? It’s that time again
CAN YOU SPOT YOURSELF IN OUR PHOTOS? TAKE A LOOK AT A-LEVEL RESULTS DAYS GONE BY IN OUR GALLERY
TODAY is the day when teenagers across the country learn how their A-levels went.
The news, good or bad, will be delivered in envelopes at schools throughout the North East — but how well do you remember your own results day?
Perhaps you’re watching your children collect their results today, or maybe it only feels like yesterday
Either way, it’s clear not much has changed since results days gone by – except perhaps the hair.
Back then, you couldn’t update your friends with an instant Snapchat or post on Facebook, so most people would be in the dark about how their classmates fared – until they actually asked them.
Nervous parents would have had to wait at home, or hover outside the school gates for news.
If their teenagers were heading to university, this would be something they’d have to get used to: a weekly phone call home would be the best they could expect, with no chance of following Freshers’ Week antics on social media.
But essentials are still the same: the nervous wait, followed by joy for some and disappointment for others.
Either way, for many it was on to the bars to celebrate or drown their sorrows, just as it will be this year – the bars and club names are different now, but the parties are much the same.
And, of course, no results day would be complete without local newspaper photographs of excited teenagers jumping in the air, proudly waving their results.
So enjoy these photos of results days gone by – and, for a more modern view, we’ll be bringing you the latest live news on A-level performance, with details about results, clearing, success stories and, yes, pictures of people jumping in the air waving their certificates.