LONDON -- Today is 濡れ場 ポルノ映画#GCSEResults 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 hilariouslyThe 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:
You May Also Like
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
Fear of grade boundaries gave way to general anxiety as the morning of the results release dawned:
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
When the pivotal envelope-opening moment arrived, the mounting sense of foreboding could at least be replaced by other emotions, as some students breathed a sigh of relief and others faced up to their disappointment with a smashing sense of humour.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
Students, if it makes you feel any better, this is the first time schools will be judged based on the government's new Progress 8 performance measures. That means teachers have just as much reason to be nervous about your results as you do...
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.