Exam Results Sent By SMS In Scotland

August 5th, 2005 • Related • Filed Under

I just read a story on the Beeb that some exam results are to be sent as SMS alerts. At first I thought what a bad idea this was - what if the SMS was delayed? What if your mates found a way to spoof the messages and say that you’d failed?

Then I thought, these poor kids will miss out on the excitement of going to their schools and opening the little envelopes with their results. I will never forget the excitement of opening the envelope with my A-level results, once I’d plucked up the courage, and then looking at my mates faces to try and gauge whether they’d got the results they needed as well.Admittedly, I had an inkling my results were good becuase the teacher who handed over my envelope had a knowing
smile, but it was still a nervous moment.

Will these poor Scottish kids get the same thrill from receiving an SMS? Definitely not!!!

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  1. #1

    Comment by Ryan on 24 July 2008:

    We Scottish kids are looking forward to it! I’m not sure if you’re aware or not but we don’t go to the school and open little envolopes… in our eyes, that’s probably the lamest thing you could do on your holidays. We get them sent through the mail to our homes so that those of us who live in rural areas, with irregular mail days, can get their exam results at the same time as everyone else.

    And don’t call us poor… more millionaires in Scotland-per head than England mate.

  2. #2

    Comment by Everton on 24 July 2008:

    @Ryan

    Only have more millionaires in Scotland because all the rich people from London retire there to take advantage of the cheap cost of living ;-)

  3. #3

    Comment by ashleigh on 1 August 2008:

    its hardly cheap cost of living…

    and more to the point it doesnt make a difference if its by text or by letter… its still gonna read the same thing..

    Personally after the crashing of the website last year i had to wait till i got the letter and it made no difference that i found my results out 1 hour after some of my friends had. It’s become almost a fashionable thing to share your results out as soon as they are known, is it really as special as we make it out to be?

    But at the end of the day is it so important to learn what you have to deal with the rest of your life with one text?

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