GCSE's - do they run out?

GCSE's became irrelevant to me when I got my A levels.

My A levels have become irrelevant to me now that I've got my degree.

My Degree will always be relevant so long as I work in IT, the MS qualifications etc are only relevant until the next OS comes out or the architecture changes.

It completely depends, if all you've got is GCSE's, then they're always going to be relevant, no matter how long down the line you need to use them.
 
for most people? no. yours however may have done. :D

but seriously, your boss is stupid, they don't have an expiration date, but once you've had a couple of years work experience, unless your going for something you've never done before, they are a bit pointless
 
Trifid said:
It is not that they expire, but become less relevant.
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^^^this

GinG said:
my arguement about them being pointless, but...is it true? Do you go through them for no reason
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The reason you do GCSE's is not so in 30 years time you can boast about them, but that the year afterwards you can do A-levels (some of which no doubt require GCSE knowledge/experience), and move on to other education.
Think of it as a PC game... you win a game by shooting the target, but to get to the target you have to shoot the guards. :)
 
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its like most things. Once you have soemthing thats better, that will become more important. However, having finished my last year at Uni and subsequently looking at graduate schemes they still expect you to have at least a B or C in GCSE English and Maths
 
vincent1989 said:
**** all these days, i'm sure when i was smaller they were bigger, now it seems the other way round. probably to many cornettos.
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probably, but it's not as noticable as magnums. there's a **** take right there. they're tiny already, and then they have the cheek to launch some 'mini' ones. ****ers.
 
I had 10 gcse's 32 years ago, if i applied for a job now based on these i am sure they would be no good.
But allied to 32 years experience they would be better than a uni degree. imo.
 
GCSE's are what employers take a glance at and evaluate if you are thick, not so thick, less than average thick or not thick.

GCSes prove you can take some information in, remember it, and apply it in some degree or another. Sometimes spitting it back out, sometimes showing you understood the content.

Put it this way, Your GCSE results are far less likely to swing the job in your favor compared to another candidates GCSE results. I would even go as far as saying that another candidate who, in interview stages had worse results than you but showed more experience or an aptitude to the role in hand would get the job, even if you had flat out A+s and they had Cs and Bs.

Some people think differently, but I personally value experience over quals any day of the week. I've met persons with computing degrees who were just useless.
 
Some of the content begins to lose relavence or is superceded, the skills learnt in order to complete them successfully do not go away. As well as them being a reasonable measure of how a person (albeit while they were still a child) is able to cope with stress and workload.
 
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