Article for 2014 Aug 14

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2014 Aug 14

A-level results came out today, which is nice. Nice in the sense that I fulfilled my desire to know my results, and also in the sense that they were nice results. Latin was an “A”; Maths and Physics were “B”s: I’d done well enough in Maths last year to preemptively compensate for an atrocious performance in that subject this year. I think the exam-board’s to blame for getting the balance of easy, intermediate, and advanced questions wrong in the Core 3 and 4 papers. (If you get the chance and the desire, see Question 8 of the Core 4 EdExcel paper. Nasty.)

The good news is that my preferred uni, St Andrews, seems to have also noticed this, and reduced entry requirements as a result. Thus I’m in, with an “A” in Latin and “B”s in Physics and Mathematics. Yippee! Laetissimus sum, είμαι χαρούμενωτερος, and A’m vera blithe. Strangely enough, the Scots translation of “I’m very happy” is the one I’m least confident with.