![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/a-levels-wellingborough-students-react-to-results-of-first-formal-exams/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/130828766_general.jpg&description=A-levels: Wellingborough students react to results of first formal exams Published 25 minutes ago Image source, Sam Read/BBC Image caption, Students at in Wellingborough have got their their A Level results after taking their first formal exams Hundreds of thousands of students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have received their A-level results. For many, they are the first formal exams they had taken, because GCSEs did not go ahead as normal during the pandemic. How did students at in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, get on? 'To imply we are not affected by Covid is a bit absurd' Image source, Sam Read/BBC Image caption, Kai Maddocks says the past two years have been "a difficult time" Kai Maddocks,18, says he is "feeling good" after getting the grades to study computer science at St Andrews University. "It's two years of hard work finally paying off," he says. "I've had a difficult time but I've done it and I can go to university now. That's the main thing. "It was a really long journey, and obviously it's been very tough for everyone, we've never sat exams before and the stress was up, but I did it, I managed to get here." He adds that he feels it has been hard being judged at pre-pandemic levels. "To be honest, I don't think it is fair," he says. "Our cohort had never sat exams before and to imply that we are somehow not affected by Covid to be honest is a bit absurd. "I personally would have liked to have seen a little bit more support in place this year, and put [the A-levels] back next year, because the ones [coming] after us did actually sit exams and would have been less affected, but it is what it is and we've got here now." 'I did deserve to be in sixth form' Image source, Sam Read/BBC Image caption, Chelsea Addison says her A-level results gave her "confirmation that she deserved to be in the sixth form" Eighteen-year-old Chelsea Addison says she is "a bit shocked" by her results and "very happy" that she can go to her first choice, the Universit){kind=link}
Hundreds of thousands of students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have received their A-level results. For many, they are the first formal exams they had taken, because GCSEs did not go ahead as normal during the pandemic. How did students at Wrenn School in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, get on?
Kai Maddocks,18, says he is “feeling good” after getting the grades to study computer science at St Andrews University.
“It’s two years of hard work finally paying off,” he says. “I’ve had a difficult time but I’ve done it and I can go to university now. That’s the main thing.
“It was a really long journey, and obviously it’s been very tough for everyone, we’ve never sat exams before and the stress was up, but I did it, I managed to get here.”
He adds that he feels it has been hard being judged at pre-pandemic levels.