25 thoughts you have before receiving your 2018 IGCSE results

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Here is the full spectrum of emotions you feel before finding out how you did

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IGCSE results are released throughout the year, depending on when you take them.

1. Wait, when are they coming out? Relax, it's so far away...

2. Sorry teacher, I’ve lost my password. Can I have another copy of that piece of paper?

3. I mean ... I didn’t lose it on purpose.

4. I just kind of … misplaced it with intent.

5. Grade boundaries will save me. I mean, I don’t really know how this bell curve thing works, but I’ll take it.

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6. I swear the exams were harder this year. They were so much harder.

7. Those dudes sitting in offices in England SET US UP!!!!! (Shakes fist angrily.)

8. PSA for all family members: STOP ASKING ME WHAT I GOT, I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO KNOW MY RESULTS.

9. Look, plenty of important, successful people were college dropouts, okay? I don’t need results to determine who I am. I’m more than a number.

10. That’s a lie.

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11. My whole future depends on this.

12. The weeks of summer holiday blur together. I only know my IGCSE results day.

13. Nobody is talking on the group chats!! Where is everyone!!!!

14. Probably rotting at home. Like me.

15. I’ve been banned from the group chat because apparently I need to “SHUT UP ABOUT IGCSE.”

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16. This is more nerve-wracking than the actual exam.

17. Wait, what subjects did I even take? I can’t remember anything. My brain is foggy from the summer holiday haze.

18. FOUND THE PAPER WITH MY PASSWORD

19. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

20. ?!?!?!?!?!

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21. I’m not going to check them. I’m not going to check them.

22. I just won’t look at them until after. I can wait.

23. WHO AM I KIDDING??? I’m opening it like, two minutes after it comes out.

24. Vaguely dizzy. Almost nauseous.

25. Intense internal screaming.

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