There were jumps for joy and smiles all across the borough as pupils learnt their fete in A level results.

From baking cakes to watching movies, pupils in Haringey did their utmost to avoid A level nerves last night but there was no reason to be nervous.

Matilda Tempest, of Hornsey School for Girls, in Crouch End, who spent the last night baking cakes to keep her calm, gained A* AA in her A-level results which has bagged her a place at Oxford University to study philosophy, politics and economics.

“I am thrilled. I’m finding it hard to take in right now, I was so shocked to see my results and know that I am off to Oxford, I thought there must be a mistake. My mum has been tweeting and putting stuff on facebook so everyone knows and I just cannot wait to get there.”

Headteacher Kuljit Rahelu told the Haringey Independent: “I’ve been doing results days for 17 years and you still get the same nerves every time. It’s the little things that make the results improve and I am thrilled at what these girls have achieved, I think most of them got the results they needed.”

From despair last year to joy this year, Rukiza Urhobo, of Haringey Sixth Former College was on CDD at last year’s A-level results but made a remarkable turnaround to secure ACC and get into Loughborough university.

With a beaming smile etched across his face, he said: “I was much hungrier this year to get what I wanted and I cannot stop smiling. I have 12 missed called from my mum in France at 6am asking if results had come out. Once I told her I tried to keep calm but she definitely wasn’t, I’m so happy.”

Hornsey girls’ school celebrated improved results from 12 months ago there was another celebration for pupil Nadia Mousaid, who got AAB and is off to SOAS to read history.

She said: “I am the first person in my family to go to university so I am very proud and so shocked that I managed to get the results I needed. I was a complete wreck yesterday, I felt so nauseous throughout the day.”

The 18-year-old was not the only one becoming the first family member to get into university with Hisham Traboulsi, 18, from Haringey Sixth Form College, in White Hart Lane, off to Queen Mary to do computer science.

There was more success for the college as it gained a 98 per cent pass rate for A-levels, a steep rise from last year.

Principal Rob Thomas said: “The class of 2015 have successfully secured some excellent results. Our sixth-form students have proved that they can compete with the best nationally and we are delighted for them.”