I'm currently studying GCSE Maths at evening classes, and I have to say I'm shocked at how much they've changed the format since I left school. The whole class is taught the various modules (Fractions and Decimals, Algebra, Trigonometry, Geometry etc.) in turn, and each module is followed by an exam. However, these days there is NO coursework (or homework), so your overall mark is 100% dependent on your exam scores. I find this a little worrying, as some people can loose their nerve during exams, and knowing that the exam is the only thing you're being assessed on makes them even more pressured. Surely the old way of giving out coursework to be marked makes ...  Read the complete review

GCSE's are being described as the currency of qualifications. They are a baseline indication to employers and universities as to whether your applications are suitable and just how good you are to fill a position. It is the first major exam in a person's life that will actually matter towards careers and there is no better person to give a review on them, than a person who is currently predicted the straight A* grades and is in the middle of sitting them. ~~ It's not just the last two years of education ~~ GCSE years are officially classed as school years 10 and 11, where students are between the ages of 14 and 16. This is when the GCSE courses ...  Read the complete review

My iece just got eight A grades in her GCSE exams and half of these were A star results which is the top grade, it is really annoying when you see some of the idiots criticising the fact that students are getting better results, smacks ofa little jealousy from where I'm sitting with comments from people who failed academically and did not get to university or the careers they wanted, it is annoying when MP 's seek to make political gain out of such headlines. I know my niece worked really hard and certainly got no help from her parents as they need all of their brain cells just to function in everyday life, she has had a tough upbringing and I'm sure that has ...  Read the complete review

**Overview** GCSE's are literally "General Certificate of Secondary Education" designed to give you a step up in further life and to bigger and better things...if you pass, otherwise it's just a way of pointing out that you may be didn't try as hard as you could have or even that maybe you weren't destined to be great academically. Eugh. GCSE's currently the bane of my existance, It's not that there difficult (well except maths anyway) but it's the fact that they can make you feel like a complete idiot and the fact that the GCSE's don't properly prepare you for the real world, because you are taught how to pass exams and not to learn vaulable ...  Read the complete review

To show just how easy it is to pass GCSE`s these days it took a tragedy to highlight that fact as the national results came out last week. Jimmy Mizzen, the teenager murdered by a group of boys from the other side of the tracks, has passed all nine of his GCSE`s, even though he was killed in early May, long before kids did the sit down and monitored written tests. Needless to say the boys that are doing the stabbing didn't pass any GCSEs. Jimmy's results were based on course work and teacher evaluations, and although he was clearly a bright kid, it's a bit worrying if you can pass these exams on course work alone. It also came to light that he was awarded a ...  Read the complete review