gcse

Along with thousands of others, my youngest son got his GCSE results today. I thought some might enjoy his art work, for which he got an A*. Each picture is 600mm x 400mm and created when he was 14 to 16. His portfolio was shown at the Birmingham City University 2014 Gifted And Talented...

This is a bit of a hobby horse for me: BBC article. Though to say that Maths has held its standards is hard to imagine. Looking at the bigger picture, when I did my Maths GCSE in 1990 I looked at my father's O-Level paper he did in the 1960s and it looked orders of magnitude more difficult...

Some of you may recall some time ago that I offered our eldest daughter £100 for every A* she achieved in her GCSE results. Now, she took 10 GCSE's so I was possibly looking at the thick end of £1,000:eek: After the exams, said daughter opted to trade the deal in if she could have a new...

First off I am NOT criticising any of our children's excellent results. I congratulate them on their achievements. We have a few educators on this forum so please take the following as more of a question. Schools only allow students to sit exams if the school thinks the pupil has a very...

Just back from my daughter's school and am really chuffed. She worked extremely hard for her exams, far harder than I ever did, and today she got her reward. 13 GCSEs 6 at A* and 5 As. :bannana: :bannana: :bannana:

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One very proud very delighted mum - my darling daughter got 9 As and 3 Bs in her GCSEs. We're over the moon for her. :bannana: :bannana: Good luck to other parents who's munchkins are getting their results today ;)