A forensics student at our school has been trying to find out what a "GCSE" is. The context is as follows:
"He got 5 GCSE 's and considered himself lucky, considering what was going on at home...."
This is a British school and GCSE refers to something to do with that setting.
Our student needs to know this small detail because in oral interpretation of prose all the details are important for motivation.
Can you help? Thanks.
edited for a fatfinger error
[ April 06, 2004, 10:06 AM: Message edited by: screechowl ]
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
I believe...
quote: GCSE stands for General Certificate of Secondary Education, and is a national school examination
..from a British web site.
Farmgirl
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Screech,
from what I'm reading, it looks like Britian has separate GCSE "tests" for each subject. Most of the articles, like This One talk about a math GCSE, or a geography GCSE.
Hopefully someone on this forum from Britian will explain it better.
Farmgirl
Posted by screechowl (Member # 2651) on :
We tried the web, but probably not enough.
That might be it, but it doesn't quite fit. How do you get 5 general certificates of secondary education?
Anything further??
Thanks farmgirl
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Screech --
Think similar to our "state assessments" here in Kansas -- but on a broader scale.
GCSE are by subject apparently. So you can get five -- say one in math, one in science, etc.