How many GCE/CSE/GCSE's have you got?

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22655

Come on, who is the brain box?

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Tue May 27, 2008 8:13 pm

8 GCSE's (A-C)

A levels in History and Geography then I went and got a job.

Can't say they've been any use to me since!

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37241

Not worth the paper they're written on nowadays... with the ridiculously high pass rate, it tells you the whole thing is a huge back slapping exercise to make everyone feel good from government, to schools, to pupils, everyones a winner..... :roll:

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Tue May 27, 2008 8:30 pm

Mr I wrote:

Come on, who is the brain box?

Failed all 5 'O' Levels I was sitting. can't say it's held me back career wise

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37241

Too late in life I've realised that qualifications are secondary to the will to actually succeed in life....

katcha · **Posted:** Tue May 27, 2008 9:06 pm

got 10 0s back in the days of john brownlie

peterleepoolie · **Posted:** Tue May 27, 2008 9:10 pm

5 Gcse's a-c

Mute Witness · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:10 am **Posts:** 3572

10 GSCE's A-C.

2 A-Levels. A in Business Studies. C in History.

Then also got a job and spent all my money on Pools.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22655

On my CV I've always had 7 in a variety of subjects. Truth is I don't have a single one and nobody has ever asked to see the bits of paper.

Jonny · **Posted:** Tue May 27, 2008 11:42 pm

9 GCSE's grade A-C

No one has ever asked for proof.

windass · **Joined:** Thu May 08, 2008 10:06 pm **Posts:** 56

Mr I wrote:

Come on, who is the brain box?

Danny Wilsons has 9 gcses. 3 A levels.

Jonny · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 12:16 am

I didn'trealise that we were putting our full CV's up.

9 GCSE's
one GNVQ Advanced in Media
one A Level - IT
one BA (hons) Media Production
one MSc in Management

TheGingerPoolie · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 1:03 am

12 GCSEs (A*-C)
5 AS Levels
5 A Levels
1 BA (w/ Hons) History

pooliehepple · **Joined:** Wed May 14, 2008 11:18 pm **Posts:** 66

university of life mate! :wink:

to quote the great david brent!

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 7:43 am

Snowy wrote:

Not worth the paper they're written on nowadays... with the ridiculously high pass rate, it tells you the whole thing is a huge back slapping exercise to make everyone feel good from government, to schools, to pupils, everyones a winner..... :roll:

So to interpret your answer to the question, you've got none?

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 9:00 am

If you went to Manor then you did well to get 2!

I'd bet that you were probably in the top 5% of your year with those results. :laugh:

Matty_Robson's_Chin · **Joined:** Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:57 pm **Posts:** 2155

I got 9 GCSE's A-C
3 A-Levels
1 AS-Level
No uni, didnt fance having £20,000 worth of debt before I start my life!!

No-one even askes you for your GCSE's or any proof.
That 'Record of Acheivement' is the most pointless task you have to do in school. I've never used mine!!!!!

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22655

It depends on your career path. If you are applying for university they'll want to see them but any few companies will ask. As time moves on it becomes less and less relevant. Once you get past about 22/23 they aren't even a subject for discussion.

loyal blue · **Joined:** Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:53 pm **Posts:** 1912

8 GCSE's
OND Electrical / Electronic Engineering
HNC Manufacturing Engineering
Degree in Building Service Engineering.

Hopefully next year sitting an honours in Project MAnagement too!

Matty_Robson's_Chin · **Joined:** Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:57 pm **Posts:** 2155

loyal blue wrote:

8 GCSE's
OND Electrical / Electronic Engineering
HNC Manufacturing Engineering
Degree in Building Service Engineering.

Hopefully next year sitting an honours in Project MAnagement too!

Didnt think they had GCSE's when you were a lad!

grabec · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 10:25 am

Weird things, 'O' levels. My end of term exam results throughout school were complete non-events, yet when I got my 'O'level results I got 8 passes. I didn't do significantly more revision. The only difference was they were marked by external examiners.

By the time I got my results tho I'd already decided to get out and get a job, which I did, tho after a while I did A levels at night class and went off to Uni

loyal blue · **Joined:** Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:53 pm **Posts:** 1912

Matty_Robson's_Chin wrote:

loyal blue wrote:

8 GCSE's
OND Electrical / Electronic Engineering
HNC Manufacturing Engineering
Degree in Building Service Engineering.

Hopefully next year sitting an honours in Project MAnagement too!

Didnt think they had GCSE's when you were a lad!

steady on chinny, im only 24

Matty_Robson's_Chin · **Joined:** Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:57 pm **Posts:** 2155

loyal blue wrote:

Matty_Robson's_Chin wrote:

loyal blue wrote:

8 GCSE's
OND Electrical / Electronic Engineering
HNC Manufacturing Engineering
Degree in Building Service Engineering.

Hopefully next year sitting an honours in Project MAnagement too!

Didnt think they had GCSE's when you were a lad!

steady on chinny, im only 24

Apologies mate, 'Loyal Blue' is my mates dad on that Rivals.net site. Its not even as though i flick from here to rivals either. Bunker all the way!

Cornelius Atweasle · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 1:10 pm

25 yds.

grabec · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 1:19 pm

Cornelius Atweasle wrote:

25 yds.

And your colon is 22 feet. Is there a connection?

Cornelius Atweasle · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 1:33 pm

grabec wrote:

Cornelius Atweasle wrote:

25 yds.

And your colon is 22 feet. Is there a connection?

Mine? You should know, you've had your finger up it.
:wink:

grabec · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 1:40 pm

Cornelius Atweasle wrote:

grabec wrote:

Cornelius Atweasle wrote:

25 yds.

And your colon is 22 feet. Is there a connection?

Mine? You should know, you've had your finger up it.
:wink:

No-one's finger is that long. Always remember, the rectum comes first

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 1:40 pm

I've got plenty of qualifications, though I've never once been asked to prove it.
I've used maybe about 20% of what I learnt to get my GCEs.
For the university stuff it's FAR less than 20%.
So I tend to agree with the "they are irrelevant" brigade, with the proviso that you have proved your competence by excelling at your job (or whatever else you might have used the qualifications for if you had them).

Cornelius Atweasle · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 1:45 pm

I rest my case.

grabec · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 1:55 pm

I've never really associated learning things with getting jobs. Sometimes occurs to me that if I'd done things differently I could now have a lucrative career, but the penalty for that would be not to have had the other life-things I've had, even tho these are probably worth nothing to anyone else

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 4:03 pm

GCSEs
French A*
English (Language) A*
English Literature A
German A
Geography A
Physics A
Mathematics A
Biology B
Chemistry B
Religious Studies (Short Course B)
Design and Technology: Food Technology B

A Levels
Classical Civilisation C
French
German
English Literature
General Studies

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 4:09 pm

What's the asterisk for?

Is it to refer you to the small print that says you sat them when New Labour had dumbed them down for political purposes?

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 4:16 pm

Mr Ripper wrote:

What's the asterisk for?

Is it to refer you to the small print that says you sat them when New Labour had dumbed them down for political purposes?

It's a 'A star' A level, whatever that means

Does anyone actually leave education these days without 'A' Levels?

When I were a lad, they as were as rocking horse shite

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 4:18 pm

TalbotAvenger wrote:

Mr Ripper wrote:

What's the asterisk for?

Is it to refer you to the small print that says you sat them when New Labour had dumbed them down for political purposes?

It's a 'A star' A level, whatever that means

Does anyone actually leave education these days without 'A' Levels?

When I were a lad, they as were as rocking horse shite

How old are you like Mr Avenger?

50+?

Matty_Robson's_Chin · **Joined:** Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:57 pm **Posts:** 2155

47 then.....

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 4:24 pm

Mr Ripper wrote:

TalbotAvenger wrote:

Mr Ripper wrote:

What's the asterisk for?

Is it to refer you to the small print that says you sat them when New Labour had dumbed them down for political purposes?

It's a 'A star' A level, whatever that means

Does anyone actually leave education these days without 'A' Levels?

When I were a lad, they as were as rocking horse shite

How old are you like Mr Avenger?

50+?

Nearly 39

It's a fact, not every man and his dog went to 'Uni' as they are loosely termed now

grabec · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 4:26 pm

I don't think they do A* A levels, just A* GCSEs.
The reason for this is that they dumbed down, or at least changed the grading system, so that more kids could leave school with a certificate. They then realised that employers and universities couldn't distinguish between people who'd done well academically and people who hadn't, so they introduced A*s. So now everyone knows what's what and everyone has a leaving certificate :roll:

What governments seem unable to see is that not everyone is/wants to be academic. It's an admission also that governments believe that non-academics are stupid and that what they REALLY want is an academic certificate

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 4:31 pm

TalbotAvenger wrote:

Nearly 39

It's a fact, not every man and his dog went to 'Uni' as they are loosely termed now

As much as some folk on here would find it hard to believe, seeing as though I only look about 25, I'm 34! :shock:

A good proportion of my mates from school went to 6th form and practically all of them then went on to "Uni". I think that it was probably in the years between you and I being at school that it started to change.

Matty_Robson's_Chin · **Joined:** Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:57 pm **Posts:** 2155

Mr Ripper wrote:

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cant judge your age, dont even know your face!

grabec · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 4:34 pm

Mr Ripper wrote:

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It coincided with almost every educational establishment being able to call itself a university

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 4:34 pm

grabec wrote:

Mr Ripper wrote:

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It coincided with almost every educational establishment being able to call itself a university

When I left 6th form I went to Hull Poly.

I graduated from The University of Humberside. :laugh:

grabec · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 4:36 pm

Mr Ripper wrote:

grabec wrote:

Mr Ripper wrote:

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It coincided with almost every educational establishment being able to call itself a university

When I left 6th form I went to Hull Poly.

I graduated from The University of Humberside. :laugh:

Oh right, hadn't heard of that. I thought you went to Hull Uni, same as me

grabec · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 4:42 pm

grabec wrote:

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When I left 6th form I went to Hull Poly.

I graduated from The University of Humberside. :laugh:

Oh right, hadn't heard of that. I thought you went to Hull Uni, same as me[/quote]

In any case, I didn't mean to cast aspersions on the old polys, because many of them were excellent for science and technology. Just that, when they became 'universities' they lost a lot of that and took on quasi-academic stuff like media studies.

By the way, a friend of the bairn's is doing a degree in brewing at Edinburgh. Now there's a course for you

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 4:43 pm

Lincoln wasn't even built when I started in '92. I think it opened just before I left.

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 4:44 pm

grabec wrote:

Oh right, hadn't heard of that. I thought you went to Hull Uni, same as me

Nah, all the swats and snooty buggers went to 'Ull Uni.

Those who liked to party were at the Poly. :grin:

grabec · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 4:46 pm

Hull certainly changes rapidly, then, doesn't it. When I lived there, I went round a lot with students from the College of Architecture, which seems now to have been wiped off the face of the earth. Can't even find any references to it on Friends Reunited!

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 4:47 pm

I went to a University that used to be called Constantine College of Technology when I began there and Teesside Poly when I finished! :laugh:

grabec · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 4:47 pm

Richard M. Head wrote:

I went to a University that used to be called Constantine College of Technology when I began there and Teesside Poly when I finished! :laugh:

Where was that, then?

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 4:49 pm

'Twas in Borough Road, Diddlesbrough, me dear.

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Wed May 28, 2008 4:50 pm

grabec wrote:

Hull certainly changes rapidly, then, doesn't it. When I lived there, I went round a lot with students from the College of Architecture, which seems now to have been wiped off the face of the earth. Can't even find any references to it on Friends Reunited!

College of Architecture?

When was that?

And whereabouts in Ull was it?

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