what does GCSE stand for?
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General Certificate of Secondary Education.
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depends on the course you want to do and the university you chose i suppose. seems nowadays more people are being encouraged to go into higher education in the UK so the entry standards are being lowered. from what i can grasp from international students (US) they attend more classes and sit more exams. exams are not really real tests of knowledge so i am led to believe! So English uni get my thumbs up anytime.
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Schools in the UK are generally called "Primary Schools" and "Secondary Schools" (which is the high school equivalent). Some areas used to offer "Middle Schools" as well, but these have generally fallen out of favour.\n\nVarious types of secondary schools include, or have included Comprehensive, Grammar, and City Technology College. \n\nJust to confuse matters, we call private schools "public schools". I'm sure whoever came up with that one thought it made sense at the time...
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Go to the studentroom.co.uk. They have alot of information on A levels.
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From the following definitions I found elementary schools picked up the phrase grade schools because the childrens work was graded, i.e. evaluated and assessed.\n\ngrade (n.)  \n1511, from Fr. grade "grade, degree," from L. gradus "step, degree," replacing M.E. gree "step, degree in a series," from O.Fr. grei "step," from L. gradus, related to gradi "to walk, step, go," from PIE *ghredh- (cf. Lith. gridiju "to go, wander," O.C.S. gredo "to come," O.Ir. in-greinn "he pursues," and second element in congress, progress, etc.). The verb is 1659, from the noun. Railway sense is from 1835. Meaning "division of a school curriculum equivalent to one year" is from 1835; that of "letter-mark indicating assessment of a student's work" is from 1886. \n\n\ngrammar  \n1176, gramarye, from O.Fr. grammaire "learning," especially Latin and philology, from L. grammatica, from Gk. grammatike tekhne "art of letters," with a sense of both philology and literature in the broadest sense, from gramma "letter," from stem of graphein "to draw or write." Restriction to "rules of language" is a post-classical development, but as this type of study was until 16c. limited to Latin, M.E. gramarye also came to mean "learning in general, knowledge peculiar to the learned classes" (c.1320), which included astrology and magic; hence the secondary meaning of "occult knowledge" (c.1470), which evolved in Scottish into glamour (q.v.). A grammar school (1387) was originally "a school in which the learned languages are grammatically taught" [Johnson, who also has grammaticaster "a mean verbal pedant"]. In U.S. (1860) the term was put to use in the graded system for "a school between primary and secondary, where English grammar is taught." \n\nAlso, when you look at the ancient (classic) educational process, which is now aone of many approached to homeschooling, :\n\nThe first years of schooling are called the "grammar stage" -- not because you spend four years doing English, but because these are the years in which the building blocks for all other learning are laid, just as grammar is the foundation for language.  In the elementary school years -- what we commonly think of as grades one through four -- the mind is ready to absorb information.  Children at this age actually find memorization fun.  So during this period, education involves not self-expression and self-discovery, but rather the learning of facts.  Rules of phonics and spelling, rules of grammar, poems, the vocabulary of foreign languages, the stories of history and literature, descriptions of plants and animals and the human body, the facts of mathematics -- the list goes on.  This information makes up the "grammar," or the basic building blocks, for the second stage of education. \n\nOnce the child hit 5th grade, education became more analitical, and therefore there was less 'grading' and more freedom of thoughts and ideas.\n\nSo to sum it up, The word grade school came from the original educational system, dating back to the greeks where a child learned (gathered most of thier knowledge) by 5th grade.. after that they spent their time analyzing this knowlege, and finally in the third stage they discusses and debated based on the knowledge they had learned and spent years analyzing.
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Yes, Englands is a country.  The UK stands for United Kingdom, which includes England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales .
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Hi to you.\nMCSE is a set of examinations conducted by Microsoft.\nThese exams have a syllabus covering LAN networking and Windows server configurations.\nIt covers 7 Exams with $50 fee per exam\nIf you want more details send me a mail to newclearwar@gmail.com
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here you are\nhttp://www.edexcel.org.uk/home/
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It's not really a good idea to move kids when they are studying. Different schools have different exam boards: AQA, for example. You'll need to ring the school which you plan to move to and explain the situation. By rights, they can call the exam board and get them to agree for her to sit her exams at their school. However, if it's a different syllabus then it'll mean sitting the gcses in a separate room . Also the revision and coursework may cause some problems if the subjects are different. Best ring and see.
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UK universities work on a points system based on A-Level, BTEC, GNVQ, and other qualifications.\n\nO-levels were phased out of UK education in the 1980's.\n\nCheck out www.ucas.ac.uk for the points and course prospectus for each university.
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well the Irish ones are all to do with the Ireland that isn't part of the UK - I can't explain them for you sorry as I don't know anything about it\n\nGCSE's are exams that all pupils in Year 11 of secondary school in the United Kingdom take. The minimum you can take is 9 subjects or 10 I can't remember (I'm doing 13) but some people that can't cope can only take like 5 (this normally applies for people with learning problems, it's not very common to only take 5 GCSE's).\n\nThen, if you pass in 5 or more of your GCSE's (a pass is a C or above) then you can go to sixth form where you do your A levels. Also I think you can do A levels in college too. Anyway, the first year of A levels, you do AS level exams which count towards the overall mark of your A levels. At AS you can take maximum 5 subjects but most people opt for 4. \nThen in year 13 you do the A level exams, and you can drop 2 subjects from your AS if you've taken 5 AS's or you can drop 1 if you've taken 4 As's. but you can do 4 subjects at A level (that's the maximum) if you feel you can cope with but, but again, loads of people opt for 3 which is the minimum. A levels then are used to get into universities.\n\nthat all happens in secondary schools in the UK\n\nI don't know about any of the others sorry
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Although it is true that GCSEs can be retaken, it is also true that GCSEs are designed for 16 year olds and not for adults.  It is a real pain in the backside for an adult to retake a GCSE because nearly all of them nowadays involve coursework.  It's not as sinple as just retaking an exam.\n\nIf you are 18 or over, I would suggest that you contact your local FE college or adult education centre who can give you information on the range of courses available that would be more suitable for adults.\n\nThe range of qualifications available can be quite daunting, so I suggest you understand the National Qualifications Framework and use this as a reference.\n\nA Level One qualification is the standard expected from good 14 year old.\n\nA Level Two qualification is the equivalent of an A-C grade at GCSE (i.e. a good 16 year old)\n\nA Level Three qualification is the equivalent of an A Level (a good 18 year old).\n\nLevel Three qualifications carry UCAS points and UCAS points count towards university entry.\n\nThe possibility of resitting a degree would, I would guess, depend entirely on the university.
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The UK has the following types of exams:\n\nGCSE's taken at age 16\nA levels taken at age 18\n\nAnd then degrees taken at universities at age 21 or 22.\n\nSo probably equivalent to the one with the same age....
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Have you decided what you want to do as a career - if so that will probably determine what GCSEs you need to take.  If you're not at all sure about what you want to do why don't you speak to your local careers advisor.  If you look on the internet you should find your local careers scheme.  Good luck.
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9-12 GCSEs including English and Maths at A*-C. People say 'oh I went later in life and had no GCSEs' but for an 18 year old the situation is different; most unis will demand at least those two.\n\nTo get onto A levels, Btec, or IB (the 3 mains routes to HE between the ages of 16-18), at least 5 of these must be at A*-C. For students who want to progress from 6th form to uni, ideally at least 8 should be at A*-C.\n\nSome coursed (e.g. GNVQs) take more time and are worth more than one GCSE. Remember, however, that unless you want to do (for example) Environmental Studies, 4 GCSEs worth on that one topic might not be so good, because it would hint at a 'focus' very early in life, and limit her breadth of skills and knowledge. GNVQs are also not  'academic' so will not be so useful for traditional academic degrees- probably better for work-related degrees such as social work, nursing, ICT and so on.
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dont u mean IGCSE? coz if u do there is a link just look 4 it type in:\ncambridgestudents\nhope this helped