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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Alice Woolley

A-levels: You've got your results, now you may need an expert to give you some help

Joy Mercer, association of colleges
Joy Mercer is our expert from the Association of Colleges and will be here to answer your questions about university and the clearing process

A-level grades not what you'd hoped? Or maybe better than you ever dreamed? Feel you need some help in deciding what to do next?

Maybe you should enter clearing to find a different university, or think again about the sort of course you should do.

Education Guardian has teamed up with the Association of Colleges to offer online help. Post your questions and dilemmas here (as a comment on this blog) and our exams agony aunt will be online today and tomorrow from 2pm to 4pm to post her live responses.

As you'll see below, she's already done one session, addressing people's concerns about changing your mind about the course you want to follow, whether you should take a gap year, and whether a vocational course is a better option than a purely academic one.

So check through her responses to Tuesday's questions – you might find her answer to someone else's question useful.

Those who have just received their AS-level results may also want advice on which subjects universities rate most highly, and what subject they should think of dropping.

Joy Mercer is a senior policy manager at the Association of Colleges who knows all about the range of choices for further and higher education.

She has worked in further education for 30 years, and with three children of her own also has personal experience of the highs and lows of results days.

If you have been through clearing yourself and think you can help, please log on and respond – all comments and feedback are welcome.

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