TOMORROW (17th August) will begin with butterflies and nerves for the county’s students as they race to hear their A-level results.

Opening times and locations for results are as follows:

Monmouth Comprehensive School: From 9.30am in the T Block dining room

Chepstow Comprehensive School: From 10am to 11.30am in the Arts Hall

Wyedean School: From 9am to 12pm

Caldicot School: From 9.30am in the Castle Building Canteen

Monmouth School – From 9am

Haberdasher’s Monmouth School for Girls – From 9am

The UCAS website, www.ucas.com, has plenty of information if students have questions about their results, and their next steps forward if choosing to study a degree.

Hopefully you’ll get the exam grades you need, but if you just miss out, the university or college might accept you anyway.

You might get a place on either your firm or insurance choice, depending how well your exams go. You might be offered an alternative by the university/ college, a ’changed course offer; you might not get a place, but you can search through the Clearing service to see what courses still have vacancies, or if no decisions are showing, give your universities or colleges a call to find out more.

Clearing offers you a chance to find a full time undergraduate course to start this September. Almost 65,000 students found their university place through Clearing last year, so you wouldn’t be alone in exploring your options.

If your exam results are better than you expected, there are options out there for you too.

Use UCAS’s Adjustment service to find alternative courses. Adjustment is a chance for you to reconsider where and what to study. If you’ve had a conditional firm choice accepted, and therefore made into an unconditional firm choice, you could potentially swap your place for one on another course you prefer.

Adjustment is available from A level results day until 31 August.

Thousands of school leavers will also be considering applying for an apprenticeship. Those accepted onto apprenticeship programmes will be training in the workplace to develop the skills required by their employer. Employers cover their apprentice’s wages, and the Welsh Government offers support with some of the training costs.

Apprenticeships begin at level two, a Foundation Apprenticeship, and progress to level three, an Apprenticeship.

Level four and above are Higher Apprenticeships and a further level of degree apprenticeship, working alongside universities, is under development for ICT, advanced manufacturing and engineering.