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Watch the moment Reading schoolgirl opens amazing A-level results
Watch the moment that a student at Reading's Kendrick School opens her A-level results and sees her grades for the first time.
Yesterday (August 14) was A-level results day, with students all over the country waking early and heading into school to crack open the envelopes containing their A-level grades.
These grades are the product of two years of hard study and for many the deciding factor in where they may be heading to university this autumn.
Joshika, a student at Kendrick School - a girls' grammar school in Reading - waited all morning to open her results envelope with her parents.
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Standing outside the school library, Joshika nervously peeled open the brown envelope and unfolded her results.
She told the Chronicle she was so stressed the night before that she couldn't sleep.
But the envelope brought great news.
To cheers from her parents and friends, Joshika announced she had achieved three A*s!
"I did best in Chemistry Paper II," she said with disbelief, explaining she had gone back home and "cried for three hours after that [exam] because I thought it went that badly".
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Joshika took her A-levels in chemistry, maths, and economics and has secured a place at Imperial College London to study chemistry
"I'm really happy," she said, adding she is "really excited" to start at Imperial in September.
Responding to the video of Joshika opening her results, Imperial College London said on X (formerly Twitter): "Amazing! Well done Joshika, we can't wait to meet you [blue heart emoji]"
The university's chemistry department also issued their congratulations.
Joshika has been at Kendrick School for seven years and said she loves the place and is "really sad to leave".
"I've grown so much as a person [here], from a small year 7 who didn't know what she was doing, to being on the leadership team in Year 13."
She gestured at the school library behind her: "I know this library so well. And the teachers are really lovely. I'm going to miss it."
From left to right: Joshika, Daya, Ananya, Bhoomija (Image: Suzanne Antelme) More: A-level success sees two friends off to study medicine at Cambridge University
The Chronicle spoke to Joshika and several students in her year group, many of whom also received good news that morning.
Friends Ananya and Dora both secured places to study medicine at Cambridge University, while Daya is off to LSE to study economics and Bhoomija has a firm offer from UCL to study maths.
