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08-25-2016, 03:50 PM
It's exam results day in the UK and students are tweeting away their sorrows
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LONDON — Today is #GCSEResults (https://twitter.com/hashtag/gcseresults?vertical=default&src=tren) Day, and students across the UK are nervously making their way to school to collect that fateful envelope containing their marks.
While we sympathise with their pain, we also relish the endless entertainment it brings us via social media.*
SEE ALSO: Scottish students receive exam results, Twitter responds hilariously (http://mashable.com/2016/08/09/scottish-students-receive-exam-results/)
The Twitterstorm started 24 hours before students received their results, when exam boards released the 2016 grade boundaries that set out the marks needed to pass the threshold of a particular grade. Students everywhere collectively gulped in dismay at the exceptionally high boundaries this year (https://www.theguardian.com/education/live/2016/aug/25/gcse-results-day-2016-uk-students-get-their-grades-live?page=with:block-57be92a9e4b0fe30498a48dd#block-57be92a9e4b0fe30498a48dd):* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/25/students-receive-gcse-results/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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LONDON — Today is #GCSEResults (https://twitter.com/hashtag/gcseresults?vertical=default&src=tren) Day, and students across the UK are nervously making their way to school to collect that fateful envelope containing their marks.
While we sympathise with their pain, we also relish the endless entertainment it brings us via social media.*
SEE ALSO: Scottish students receive exam results, Twitter responds hilariously (http://mashable.com/2016/08/09/scottish-students-receive-exam-results/)
The Twitterstorm started 24 hours before students received their results, when exam boards released the 2016 grade boundaries that set out the marks needed to pass the threshold of a particular grade. Students everywhere collectively gulped in dismay at the exceptionally high boundaries this year (https://www.theguardian.com/education/live/2016/aug/25/gcse-results-day-2016-uk-students-get-their-grades-live?page=with:block-57be92a9e4b0fe30498a48dd#block-57be92a9e4b0fe30498a48dd):* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/25/students-receive-gcse-results/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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