A-level students celebrate and commiserate with hilarious memes

A-level students have celebrated or commiserated their exam results with hilarious memes.

Many have taken to Twitter to celebrate while others who did not get the results they were looking for, shared their disappointment online.

Others who have already gone through the results process decided to wade in with some advice.

According to official results, the number of top grade A-levels dropped this year after the biggest exam shake up of a generation, with boys outperforming girls.

UCAS revealed today that a record 27.9 percent of 18-year-olds in England have been accepted onto university courses.

According to UCAS, a total of 411,860 students from across the UK have been placed on undergraduate courses so far.

This is a decrease of one percent compared to A-level day last year.

There is now fierce competition among universities to attract the students who have not yet been accepted onto a course because the drop in applicants has created a “buyers market”.

Aaron Anthony wrote on Twitter: "It's not A-levels results day without a tweet from Jeremy Clarkson."

And of course earlier today, Mr Clarkson posted a tweet aimed to make those who hadn't obtained their ideal results feel better.

This year, around one in 12 entries scored an A* grade, down 0.3 percentage points on last year.

The overall A*-E pass-rate has fallen 0.3 percentage points to 97.6% - the lowest since 2010.

A subject breakdown shows that Chinese has overtaken German in popularity for the first time.

There were 3,334 entries for Chinese this year, up 8.6% on last year, while 3,058 took German - down 16.5%.

Stem subjects (science, technology, engineering and maths) are attracting increasing numbers of students.

More than a third (36.2%) of A-level entries were in these subjects, up from 34.5% last year, and 28% in 2009.

The results in England, Wales and Northern Ireland come after a major overhaul of the qualifications in England.

Additional reporting by PA.