Your A level moment
16:30 UK time, Monday, 23 August 2010
UPDATE, MONDAY 23 AUG:
Perhaps it was the trauma of revisiting the scene.
Or maybe you simply had better things to do.
But the only response to our A levels clarion call - in which we asked readers to adopt alternative envelope-opening emotions - came from Helene Parry in Brentford. Yet what a wonderful example of teenage indifference it is.
It's an enigmatic, Mona-esque expression that betrays little. It could be three As or three Fs.
One word sums up Helene's feelings at this moment.
"Whateva"
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20 AUG: Following today's Paper Monitor discussing Fleet Street's penchant for a certain portrayal of A level results day, the thought occurs that we only ever see pictures of students looking ecstatic at the crucial envelope-opening moment.
So let's redress the balance. The Magazine invites you to submit images of you re-enacting that nervy moment from the past when, hands trembling, you opened up the post or scanned a notice board.
What was the look on your face? Bags of kudos for alternative emotions - disappointment perhaps, or anguish, or perhaps even cold fury.
Send your images to yourpics@bbc.co.uk with the subject heading EXAMS
And we'll share the very best.
So, in summary, we want less of this...
...and more of this.
