I just got mine. I figured a thread could be good for anyone who got there GCSE results? HUMANITIES UNIT 1 - B Whats Ironic here is that the teacher I had said i’d never go far. I just attained higher than a student she praised. ENGLISH A TIER HIGHER - C FOOD TECH - D SCIENCE B UNIT 1 - A SCIENCE B UNIT 2 - C DIDA D201 - P (PASS) DIDA D203 - C (PASS APARANTLY)
Congratulation Cyantist and anyone else receiving their GCSE results today. Pay no attention to a lot of the stuff in the papers about things dumbing down, it just sells papers. I sat my GCSE's 10 years ago and they were spouting the same thing!
Ah but a newspaper a few years ago wrote sample questions from a science o-level papers from the 70s and GCSEs from the 80s, 90s and 2000s and the questions did seem to get easier. I remember panicing before we did our electronics GCSE as the teacher gave us a mock paper from the 70s and it was hard, I only managed to get 62% (which was higher then anyone else) where as the exam back in 1991 was in fact a piece of piss and I got a A* in the end.
some people are cheating i think i never had or even had the chance to do gcse i think they are crappy i dont need gcses to fix computers or fix a car or anything my mates friend his sister has A levels she dont know how to change a fuse in a plug so they cant be that much good i think i will try to get some gcses anyway if its this easy
GCSE's are not really what they are cracked upto be at all. There not as difficult as teachers say aslong as you do all the work and revise periodically. I agree with what you say about not needing GCSE's but the problem is that employers seem to think that More/higher GCSE's = A better employee
As a manager/director for about ten years, who has directly hired around 200odd people in my time (fook knows how many interviews I have conducted) working in both the UK and now the UAE I can personally say that grades mean absolutley nothing in terms of being good enough for the job and to be honest I am not really interested in knowing what they got. Experience, understanding of "the real world" / "how a real company works" and common sence is key. Sadly three things that seem to be lacking in education from what I have experienced. Not saying that education is not important because I think it is, but more for you and not always for your prepreation for your career... and for the record my only education was GCSE's and my highest grade was a C... Someday I would like to go back into education, but certainly not for my career - but thats another story! Anyway well done Cyantist, and good luck with your future!
I don't think they're lacking - I just don't think you can teach these things in school in the first place. I did terribly at my gcse's (barely scraping through with enough to go to Uni... in fact I was lucky to even be accepted at uni) I learnt more outside of school than I ever learned in it - no doubt about that > but on reflection, I can see that it was the subjects where I had good teachers that I did well in... The problem now is that there are so few good teachers. My job right now is 'patching up' the shit the teachers don't teach in state school (I teach privately). My wife, who does the same job, like myself - cannot believe how some of these people are even hired in the first place. This is in Italy - but England was really no different (although they do study a lot more over here, in comparison) It's a global thing I reckon... standards are slipping, people are becoming lazier... But then this does give us all more time play on our consoles so its not all bad! (hey, I'd rather play GTA than learn about the Norman invasion of England in 1066, wouldn't you?) Great results there OP - you should do well in the future
Congratulations buddy, DIDA is IT? I did the AIDA version course a few years back it sucked I heard DIDA was much better though, well done again.. you're planning to go to college now right? Do you have an idea of what A-Levels you want to do?
later in life i want to edit video as a career. not sure what A-levels yet. Been told i am good at science so tempted to take that at A-Levels
I think the problem is that being able to pass tests shows basic proof that they can work hard even if they don't find it interesting, struggle dilligently through boredom and still achieve. Whilst what you have grades in is not important, it's showing you can do it that many care about (albeit mostly in further education, such as 6th form/college, university). Disappointingly, whilst many brilliant people don't have GCSEs/A levels, it's a basic necessity for jobs in clerical-type jobs. Without any grades to speak of, your CV will likely be overlooked unless you have something to shine with (as in 10 years past experience ) Anyway, congrats to all.
