Nervous GCSE students flood Twitter with funny memes as they go to pick up their exam results

IT’S the most dreaded event in the school calendar.

And now, nervous GCSE students have flooded Twitter with hilarious memes ahead of picking up their exam results today.

School children across the country can find out their grades from 9.30am this morning – and the agonising wait has been too much for some to bear.

Many teens have taken to social media to air their concerns, with laugh-out-loud posts.

For some, that brown envelope will reveal they failed to reach the grades they were hoping for.

If your child is struggling to come to terms with their exam results, what can you do to help?

Psychologist Emma Kenny says: “Failure is a part of adult life but exams are often the first time young people are really exposed to it.

“Any successful entrepreneur will tell you it’s a vital part of personal and professional growth.

“Knowing how to deal with it and make it work for you will be a huge learning curve but it’s possible.

“If your child hasn’t got the grades they wanted and they feel like their peers are heading off in new directions without them, helping them make sense of their results can see them grow as an individual and gain a mental strength that they didn’t even know they had.”

Here Emma reveals how failure can be an option and gives her top tips for parents helping kids to cope.

Meanwhile, here's what the new GCSE 1-9 grades means and information on when the old structure will be replaced.