Reaction from across England as pupils receive their A-level results on 18 August
Record numbers of university places awarded as slight fall in top A-level grades
This brave student at Seaford Head Sixth Form Centre, external in East Sussex allowed BBC South East Today to film him opening his results.
For those of us who've been in a similar position in the past, it brings back that horrible knot-in-your-stomach nervous feeling...
Louise O'Brien will be the first member of her family to attend university when she enrols on to an Egyptology and Classical Studies course at the University of Liverpool next month.
The 18-year-old from Wigan scored A-levels in Medieval History, English Literature and Chemistry.
Image source, PAShe said:
Quote MessageMy family were very surprised but very supportive when I told them I was hoping to go to university.
Quote MessageI have always been interested in ancient history, ever since I was a kid and started reading Percy Jackson books
Quote MessageMost people are quite surprised when I tell them what I'm going to study because they didn't know you could do a degree in it
Despite a slight drop in A-level top grades nationally, several schools and colleges in Shropshire have been celebrating record results.
Concord College had just over 95% of students achieving A-star, A or B grades.
Adams Grammar in Newport had 80% passing with an A-star, A or B grade. Its head Gary Hickey said it was a "privilege to witness pupils you've worked with since the age of 11 - see all their hard work come to fruition".
About 1,000 students at New College in Wellington (featured below) have been opening their results this morning. The college said about 20 courses had achieved a 100% pass rate.
A-level students from across Shropshire have been picking up their results this morning
Sandish Shoker
BBC News Online
There's big smiles all round at the National Church of England Academy in Hucknall, Nottingham - they've received their best ever set of results.
Image source, National Church of England AcademyKelly Wall, head of sixth form, said, “It has been a fabulous year and it’s great to see the students receive the results that their hard work deserves.
"They’re overjoyed they’re now set to make the next move to good universities or great employment opportunities."
John Acres
BBC Radio Stoke
Students at Newcastle College, external in Staffordshire have been among thousands getting their A-level results today.
Students open A-level results at Staffordshire college.
BBC Radio Stoke heard from two of them - Josh secured a place at Staffordshire University while Beth will study at Southampton University.
Across the country, a record number of students have been accepted for university places.
What do you do if you don't quite get the grades you want?
Professor Steve West, the vice chancellor at the University of the West of England, found his A-Levels were not what he expected. He later found out he has dyslexia.
He advises students to think carefully about their university choices.
Professor Steve West from the University of the West of England passes on his advice.
BBC Rewind
The results might be hard to predict but some things never change on A-levels day.
A-level results from the archive
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BBC News Online
There's something to celebrate at Nottingham Girls' High School.
It's once again received a 100% pass rate with 94% of pupils achieving a grade C and above.
Image source, Nottingham Girls’ High SchoolSophie Belton, Elllie Copeland, Chloe Shipway and Emilia De Rosa are all heading to Bristol University.
Johnny Dee
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
This morning I met Matilda, who describes herself as a "struggling actress".
She was brave enough to open her A-level results live on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire this morning.
She's decided to take a gap year after studying at Ormiston Bushfield Academy, external in Peterborough.
Her results are as follows:
Matilda (pictured in the middle) wants to be a West End star and is going to apply for a musical theatre course next year. She says in five or six years' time "you'll see me in Funny Girl - I'll be the next Sheridan Smith".
We wish you all the best!
Johnny Dee
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
I've been out and about this morning in Peterborough talking to students who've been getting their A-level results.
Head of sixth form Haseena Manji, at Orminston Bushfield Academy, told me the school's 99% pass rate is down to lots of things, but the work ethic of their students is "brilliant".
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Georgey Spanswick
Presenter, BBC Radio York
It's a big day for North Yorkshire's A-Level students as today's the day they hear their results and find out how it affects their career choices.
Earlier, I spoke to former Harrogate Grammar School pupil Jasmine Cannon who got three grade A's, meaning she's heading off to Newcastle University to study medicine.
Meanwhile, fellow pupil Zsofia Hesketh has plans to go to Cambridge University - and she let me know live on BBC Radio York how she'd done:
A teenage traveller has become the first in her family to go university.
Stephanie Bagnall got A* in English literature, B in drama and C in business studies in her A-levels and will now go to Royal Holloway, University of London, to read English.
The 18-year-old, from Gloucester, comes from a family who for generations have worked as show people, travelling the country working at fairs.
But her mum set up a cafe in order to allow her daughter to take her A-Levels.
She scored A* in photography, A in English and a B in biology - but 18-year-old Catie Munnings, from Headcorn in Kent, won't be going to university. Instead she's going to be a rally driver.
BBC South East Today's Education Correspondent Bryony Mackenzie quizzed her yesterday.
It's an experience we're not sure Bryony wants to repeat...
Nick Wilmshurst
BBC Local Live, Leeds
There's a lot of whoops of joy and cries of despair around West Yorkshire today as thousands of teenagers have received their A-level results.
Nationally the number of students getting into university places has reached a record level.
Some around Leeds have expressed pure elation!
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Others are just glad it's all over, (what's with all the capital letters by the way?!)
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But if you didn't do so well, fear not. There is life after A-levels, and here's the proof!
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Calum McKenzie
BBC Local Live
BBC Radio Leicester's Dale Neal has sent this picture from the clearing centre at the University of Leicester.
What odds on those call handlers making it home in time for the News at Ten?
Some of the mothers of students at Rochdale College say they're hugely proud of their children's' results which means a chance of a university education they didn't have themselves.
Brad Tweedale's mum said she was "absolutely over the moon" as he is the first member of the family to go to university - as he takes the next step in his dream to become a doctor.
The number of students being accepted for university places has reached a record level with the Ucas admissions services saying 424,000 places have been offered, an increase of 3% on this day last year.
A student from Nelson and Colne College who battled mental health for several years says she never imagined she would land a place at university, let alone one of the most prestigious in the country.
Lotte Gleeson achieved three A* grades and an A in Maths, Further Maths, Chemistry and Physics, and her "dream" offer to study Physics at the University of Oxford.
The 18-year-old now hopes her story will inspire others to believe in themselves.
Quote MessageI went to college and it really helped me. I was treated with more respect, I felt like more of a person, rather than someone who was able to get good grades.