A list of all the A-level results day cliches you've seen today

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It's A-level results day.

Which means these things are happening right now.

Pictures of impossibly happy people jumping in the air

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Least inventive photo ever

Special points if you actually catch people doing this in real life, rather than just for the benefit of a newspaper photographer.

Minus points if you're the one doing it.

Photographers shouting at identical twins

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They'll definitely have their arms around each other

They'll be identical. They'll be pretty.

They'll have got respectable grades from a respectable school and their photos will be everywhere.

An eight-year-old who got an A* in physics

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We don't even want to talk about this.

It's nice for them but you'd rather they pipe down about their success.

This argument: 'I didn't get any exams and it didn't do me any harm'

Thanks for that. We tried hard though.

A young celebrity putting their great exam results on Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram

Malala Yousafzai tweeted saying she'd got into Oxford., external

It's been the likes of Tom Daley (straight As) and Brooklyn Beckham, external (passed all his GCSEs) in the past.

This year, the role fell to proper clever person Malala Yousafzai, who announced that she'd got into Oxford - meaning she would've got her three As.

Like they'd turn her down anyway. She has a Nobel Peace Prize, for goodness sake.

An annoying old celebrity saying, 'Don't worry, I got rubbish grades'

Teachers/family members/friends' parents asking about 'the future'

Seriously? You've got the rest of the summer to think about the future.

Please just let this time be about being relieved the whole ordeal is over, enjoying your last month with your friends and going to the pub.

Especially going to the pub.

Braggy parents Facebooking their children's results at 8am. TOO SOON

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Reason #7,594 why you shouldn't be friends with your mum on Facebook.

People saying 'exams are getting easier'

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It won't take someone long to say that and, if you've spent two years working towards this day, you'll be delighted to hear their opinion.

Should you wish to reply, try this...

The government's schools minister Nick Gibb said: "The increase in entries to facilitating subjects, those that give students the greatest choice of options at university, mean even more young people will have access to all the opportunities higher education provides."

You may find that a two-word reply is more than adequate though.

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