Can employers/uni etc. tell what gcses you have?
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Someone I lived with an university was a mature student and got into university by saying he had 3 A-levels at B grade.
It turned out that he didn't have any A-levels at all and the university never checked! They only found out when he fell out spectacularly with one of my other housemates and they grassed him up.
It turned out that he didn't have any A-levels at all and the university never checked! They only found out when he fell out spectacularly with one of my other housemates and they grassed him up.
OUCH! Yeah, I've just sent my UCAS off, college check them to make sure the grades are right, they had me as two grades down of what i actually got on my Maths, they said bring a certificate in but sent it off anyway, so I guess i could have said i got an A* and they wouldn't of even made me do it before sending it off!
True enough, but its not just a few GCSE's that he told porkies about.
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It is upto the company to check and they possibly won't. However just because you are doing your job well doesn't mean one day the HR dept wont ask for a copy of your certificates.
Still, worth a try.
Still, worth a try.
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I'd love that job. Teaching kids to make useless **** out of plastic and wood. When I studied it we learnt about a couple of different joints, made a laser pointer keyring, made a crappy pencil case out of wood and then we had our final project. I made a clock, well, I say I made it but what actually happened was I spent around 1 month cutting out the shape and then I was bought a Playstation 2 so I'm quite sure no work in any subject got completed after that point.
I'd second what somebody said above though, going into detail about your GCSE's is a waste of space on your CV. I just type 'Gained 7 GCSE's including Mathematics, English, Science and I.C.T'.
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I remember a friend of mine from down the road telling me that she never did any GCSE's and she stopped going to school when she was 15, purely because she hated school with a passion. Anyway all the jobs she has had in the past she has always stated on her CV that she has got 6 GCSE's all grade B's and C's. Not one of the the places she worked at never checked up on her qualifications. She quit school 20 years ago but do some employers really think that you would still have your GCSE certs years after you finished school?
Liam
Liam
Yes, my missus works for local government and every interview she attends they always ask for evidence of all her qualifications. This means that if the job you want requires say GCSE English language and Maths at grade c or above or equivalent and all you have is GCSEs then you would need to provide evidence. If however you had a degree in x then that would be sufficient to prove competency in English and Maths and you would just need to provide evidence of your degree.
Um, yes, they do expect that. It's perfectly reasonable to keep hold of bits of paper on which your future employment may depend.
I still have all my GCSE certificates, and my A-Level certificates. I'm 27.
Yes, I still have all mine (I'm 37).
I have a few international friends that lied about qualifications for university.
One of them is from India, and lied about have indian equivalent exams, and got into engineering at Nottingham uni, and failed spectacularly, as he didn't know basic algebra.
The other from Iran lied about his qualifications and got onto computer science, and did very well even though he had no previous qualifications, and is now working for Goldman Sachs!!!
Lying to jump through silly hoops, like having an A* instead of an A in GCSE maths would improve your chances of getting an accounting training contract immensely right now. But lying about having the qualification outright would be silly, as you do develop more than a letter on a piece of paper as a high achieving student.
One of them is from India, and lied about have indian equivalent exams, and got into engineering at Nottingham uni, and failed spectacularly, as he didn't know basic algebra.
The other from Iran lied about his qualifications and got onto computer science, and did very well even though he had no previous qualifications, and is now working for Goldman Sachs!!!
Lying to jump through silly hoops, like having an A* instead of an A in GCSE maths would improve your chances of getting an accounting training contract immensely right now. But lying about having the qualification outright would be silly, as you do develop more than a letter on a piece of paper as a high achieving student.
Lot of places I've worked for don't bother checking if GCSEs are real (tho degrees and other stuff they will often). Its not really worth doing tho as even if they don't check there and then down the line it leaves you open to instant dismissal, legal action and even potentially - tho fairly unlikely - imprisonment (mostly due to recent changes to liability legislation).
I know somebody who made up that they had a degree, despite not even going to Uni. They even fabricated a tutor reference and everything. Got the job too!
