Your plan B may well have been a place at college so it’s worth taking that up. If your grades were lower than expected, and in a subject that will be important to your Apprenticeship, particularly Maths and English, it will be very helpful to look at an early resit in that subject, to give yourself the best chance in the competition for apprenticeship places.


BTEC and vocational qualification results


Although many vocational qualifications are beginning to include exam-style assessments, very few of them actually focus on one final exam to decide your result. For many practical or vocational qualifications, including Apprenticeships and even the new T Level qualifications in England, your final result reflects your collated score over a number of projects, tests and assignments. This should mean you start to build a fairly clear idea of how you will do as the course progresses – and means you have time to do something about it if you’re not on track! It does also mean you are less likely to be in the ‘results turmoil’ that some of your friends might experience.


And finally… It might be hard to believe in the moment, but your exam results are not make or break for the rest of your life. There are lots of people who’s plans didn’t go to plan but who look back and realise that it taught them resilience, made them work harder or helped them consider a career path they hadn’t even thought of before. So, try to maintain a sense of perspective and remember the old saying: if life gives you lemons, make lemonade!


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For more information call 0345 607 5555 Visit www.royalnavy.mod.uk/careers


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