Like thousands of others this week I am eagerly awaiting my GCSE results. No doubt when they are released there will be great speculation, similar to last week's fuss over A Level results, about whether or not we deserved them!

Either the results will be better than ever and my peer group will be dismissed as having passed easier exams, or they'll be worse than last year's and we'll all be labelled as halfwits. We just can't win.

National newspapers last week reported on the problem that there are too many pupils achieving the higher grades at A Level and there are too few university places available this year for them. Apparently over a quarter of students get A grades; now giving universities a big problem, how do they differentiate between one A pass student and another?

What about all the unemployed mature people who were told by the government to retrain when they lost their jobs this year due to the recession? Where do they go to university if there are already fewer places for A grade students?

When this government came into power their mantra was 'Education, education, education.' They've been in power a long time now so why are there still problems? Isn't 12 years long enough to sort out what they want from GCSE and A level students; they can't blame the last government anymore, can they?

Should pupils need to go to university to get a good job or a foot on the career ladder? Is going to university the only way to ensure a successful career? Some careers you have to go to university, like if you want to be a doctor, or a vet etc. The reason other students go is to land a better job with more prospects and pay than those who don't.

However, Tom Mursell, noticed in his gap year whilst staking shelves at his local supermarket that he was working alongside university graduates. This prompted him to reassess his own future and set up the website notgoingtouni.co.uk.

One of the big disadvantages of going to university (if you're lucky enough) is that when you leave you will be around £23,000 in debt which could take a lifetime to pay off. There is also the statistic that one in four students drop out of university after getting there.

So, as I open my envelope this week, I will be hoping that by the time I sit my A Levels the government have decided what standards they want from us because it's unfair to dismiss our achievements when we didn't set the exams or determine the pass marks.