A-level results day 2022: The nervous anticipation and excitement as students across Leeds open their results

Alex Grant
By Alex Grant
Published 18th Aug 2022, 12:50 BST
Updated 18th Aug 2022, 13:37 BST
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The stage was set. Students milling around the auditorium as a buzz of nervous excitement filled the air. A buzz that could mean only one thing – it was exam results day.

A-level results day is when dreams can be made and quashed in equal measure – with one open of an envelope determining the immediate futures of many young people.

Students up and down the country as well as across Leeds have been discovering their results today.

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At Elliott Hudson College, located next to Leeds’s White Rose Centre, the scene was no different this morning as the hall began to gather with the nervous excitement there for all to see.

A-level results day is when dreams can be made and quashed in equal measure. Picture: Tony Johnson.A-level results day is when dreams can be made and quashed in equal measure. Picture: Tony Johnson.
A-level results day is when dreams can be made and quashed in equal measure. Picture: Tony Johnson.
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One student who was left excited was Georgia Brooks, who is heading to study Classics at Cambridge.

"I couldn’t open them at first, I just sat with the envelope in front of me and when I did open them it just didn’t register. I’m just so happy” she told the YEP.

Georgia was one of a handful of students accepted into one of the country’s most prestigious university’s.