What Did You Get In Your GCSE's?

Eh I did standard grades for the obvious reason but got eight 1s. Not all that important but I guess it gets you into better classes for Highers/A-Levels and that ought to help the grades in them which in turn helps with going to a better uni and so on and so forth.
 
Didn't revise for any

1A*
9A's
2B's
2C's


For english lit I didn't even read the book (1984) and still got an A. Just shows how stupid it is. You get a choice of three questions,
1) About the writing technique of a certain section
2) About a character
3) Write about a certain section that is given to you in the paper.

I did 3 as it gave me the text, I then read that part there and then and never read any other part of the book.
 
Got B's & C's in 9 GCSE classes, a few A'levels but never did the Uni thing. Made fap all difference to what job I'm doing now. The only grades/subjects that most employers look for are C and above in maths and english.

That said, I've just started a degree 20yrs after leaving school and they took into account my school qualifications as acceptance! I would wage I've now forgotten at least 80% of what I was taught in school, much the same as what people forget after passing their driving tests ;).

In all honesty, looking back unless you are looking to go for higher education then I wish I had done a yts in a trade/skilled background as that would have been much more benificial than o'levels and a'levels. I fell lucky getting a decent career but there are so many others who have degrees and qualifications coming out of their backside that can't get on the career ladder.
 
I was shamefully apathetic with my revision, but managed to get B, B, C, C, C, C, D and another D. Enough to get me into college to study music, did very well with that and am now reading politics at degree level.
 
What kind of a **** must you have been to get 11a stars ?

Cant even remember what i got it was pre history, I think 3 A 3 Bs and the rest Cs.

And i picked what A levels i wanted, and which degree i wanted...

You kids are screwed these days anyway unless mummy and daddy like horses and the south of France.
 
11 A-C GCSE's and a GNVQ in IT.

I don't list the individual grades on my C.V. either, my latest edit doesn't even specify the grades I got in my A levels either.
 
It's depressing that it's the best part of 20 years ago now but I got A(ext) in Maths and B & C in English Lang. and Lit. respectively.

The (ext) on the Maths was because we sat an additional extension paper on top of the normal papers at the time and if we passed that then we got (extended) added to our grade.

Overall I got,
1x A (ext)
2x A
4x B
2x C
 
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well i personally found GCSEs to be more about teaching you to learn than teaching you to think... does that make sense?

The "sillybus" is so rigid now they practically only teach you exam answers which you can mix and match on the final paper
 
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