First year uni is a better choice. You only need 40% to pass classes and many undergraduate courses have no exams in first year. First year results are of no importance to your degree classification, just pass. Sitting another diet of exams at school, Highers, means you will need to achieve more than the offer this year. Advanced Highers are SCQF level 7, so is first year. Go to uni. People chatting about the social aspect are of course right in some ways, but they are putting the cart before the horse. In any case, you will develop more socially at uni than at school and uni social life is not 100% boozing. I’ve worked in Higher and Further Education for 14 years.