GCSEs are apparently going to be scrapped...

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21 Jun 2012, 4:02 pm

...just as I finish my three maths modules. I swear if they request that people re-do the courses I'd kill myself! I keep being shifted from one qualification to another, and I'm really tired...

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21 Jun 2012, 4:17 pm

Really? Is that suppost to be the whole country discontinuing GCSEs? I've not heard anything about it, and I'm in the middle of a few GCSE courses now.

If they are replacing them, I have no idea why they would becuase they seem to work ok now.

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21 Jun 2012, 4:22 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... evels.html - admittedly, they must be easy considering every halfwit who can't think beyond "omg, i luv u" seems to have over five GCSEs on average.

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23 Jun 2012, 5:38 am

I don't know if Scotland does GCSEs (I'm pretty clueless about this), but what I do know is that the course for 3rd and 4th year, Standard Grade, is being replaced by a Cirriculum For Excellance, which is apparently pretty easy, having seen some of the 'tests'.

Glad I didn't have to do it; I've just finished 4th year so lucky me. As someone I know put it, the old course made you ready for Higher (or something along those lines), the current course just tries to get you to Higher. What I'm wondering though, is if the Higher is dependant on what you learn in the Standard Grade...how on earth will doing the new course work for Higher? Makes no sense