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Yup, totally useless from college onwards...not even the universities I applied didn't bother asking

But I suppose they would be after attending one of the Uk's top state run colleges - 1st place whilst I was there IIRC <gloats>

Oh, and my A-levels are worthless too

Brendan Hughes

My son got five Cs, and the rest were Ds and one F.

Doesn't matter any more though.

kingofturds

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Physics. b
Chemistry. C
Biology. c
Geography. d
English. d
Maths. c
frenchd
History. errrm

Chip

Well my daughter just got 10 A's and 1 C which was for RE. She worked bloody hard and I'm very proud of her.

Chip

hades

Being the second year of GCSEs (1989), it did seem there was a big gap when starting A levels, and I believe I worked harder in the first term of 6th form to bridge that gap and get back on top of Maths and Physics then I did at any other stage for those subjects - including leading up to the exams themselves.

As we were second year of GCSE, we did do some past O level papers too. I think that if you could think academically, do OK in exams and had a good short-term memory (for cramming) the O levels were not harder. If you weren't so "academic", and/or not so hot with the short term memory, you'd get better marks in GCSEs than you would in O levels. Therefore, I'd say they were different rather than harder.

I'd say good results definitely help with getting into university, and/or with getting your first job (noting many graduates get a conditional job offer before their degree result is announced). Once you've been working a few years, it's what you've done at work that counts much more than what you did at school.

PS Am far too modest than to quote my results and show up everyone else.

carl

I was also the second year of GCSEs (1989).

7 As (Maths, English Lang, Double Science, Economics, Technology, Geography)
2 Bs (English Lit, German)

Focusbird

I was the first year to do GCSE, I remember coming out of my Design Tec exam and my teacher said "did you understand all of that" to which we said "not really" and she said "no, neither did I" and walked off laughing - actually got a B in that though.

I got 2 B's, 2 C's and 3 D's, plus 2 typing qualifications - I wanted to start earning asap when I left at 16 so did a YTS and got an NVQ4 at the end of it.

As said above, I've never had to prove what qualifications I've got to get a job though

hades

Thinking about it, I have had to show the degree certificate recently to a prospective employer recently (and that's ~11 years after I got it). Whether they'd have asked for A level certificates if I hadn't got a degree, I have no idea.

carl

I thought usually they just phoned or wrote to the university in question to confirm you'd been awarded the degree. Would be a PITA if I had to get both of mine out of the frames

GCollier

Back in 1985/86...

9 A's (Maths, Additional Maths AO, English Language, English Literature, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Studies, Geography, German)
2 B's (French, General Paper)

Gary.

Jamz3k

i got 1a 3b's 4c's and a single d, i would have passed my a-levels with ease if i havent of arsed about as much and the school i went too was a complete joke, but eh lifes a bitch i'm in a good job getting paid roughly the same as a teacher and im 19 with no qualifications other than gcse's and aparently im just gonna keep going up so who cares about results

ps i was gonna edit this because of my bad english but **** it, i didnt pass my a-levels so why should i care about grammer

DPat

The rules changed some time ago - when I was a lad the top 5% each year gt an A, then next 20% a B and so on
Now, if you get 70/100 you get an A - so everyone could get an A

So the exam boards no longer rank your result vs. the rest of the year

All this means that Universities are having to introduce their own entrance exams to be able to find the good students


Also saw the item on current A graders sitting 'real' papers and their P1ss poor results.

JTaylor

I wonder what Moses got for English?