There was plenty to celebrate and lots of smiles as thousands of students received their GCSE results across the county today. Students overcame the lingering impact of Covid, a fire and much more to secure the grades they needed to go on to sixth form, college or training. Martha Pearson, a student at Roedean School, Brighton , celebrated an outstanding set of results getting 11 grade 9s – the highest grade available.
Martha Pearson (Image: Submitted) She is going to BHASVIC to study maths, further maths, chemistry and history at A-level. “I am incredibly pleased with my results and am now looking forward to celebrating at Reading Festival,” she said. Fellow Roedean pupil Lydia Furniss spent 590 hours and 42 minutes revising for her exams.
The 16-year-old from Hove bagged ten 9s and a 7 in her results and puts her success down to being motivated by using the revision app Flora. Lydia Furniss (Image: David McHugh) "I started revising in February and I just got addicted to recording the hours and seeing the tree in the app grow when I revised and wither when I messed about on my phone,” she said. “The funny thing is that I don’t include my art GCSE in those hours but I know that I did about the same amount of hours again just on art alone.
But because I was watching TV while I did it, I didn’t count it.” Lydia will now study for her A-levels in English literature, maths, Spanish and classics and hopes to go to Cambridge University after that. A very happy famil.