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"So. GCSEs anyone?"

Tell us your results and then everyone else will tell you how useless they are, etc...

Maths : A

Only did that exam. I do the rest next year.

And you?

J Nash wrote:
> I got 1 B, 1 D an E and the rest were C's a few years back.
>
> They don't actually mean that much anyway, unless you want to be a
> doctor or something, in which case you need uber high grades. As long
> as you pass them you can go onto college etc.

Except your grades are probably worth more (being older) as it gets easier and easier to simply get A's across the board which is de-valueing the whole thing.

"Thanks for attending - you get an A"

I can't think of a better way of celebrating your GCSE results...

EDIT: She's gone now. Ignore me.

No, don't press the button..!

SHEEPY wrote:
> Yeah, I never said you didn't need them.
>
> When you reach the next step they are useless. So there, you bloody
> Irish.

In primary school you get asked questions like "what is 2+2?"
At higher levels you don't, so obviously learning the answer was worthless and I should just forget it now.

JFH wrote:
> Some 7 year old on the news got a B in GCSE ICT.

I think a blind monkey could get a B in GCSE ICT, all you have to is randomly tick boxes and point out "where the cut button" is.

Yeah, I never said you didn't need them.

When you reach the next step they are useless. So there, you bloody Irish.

Though I do agree that they are important at teh time.

I go both ways on the subject.
I had a discussion with some students a few months back about how my exam results were important.
They were saying "yeah, they get you into Uni, but once you're in, they're useless", so I said the same thing could be said about a degree "once you've got your job, who needs the degree?"
"Yeah, but you have the experience on the Uni life as well, and the knowledge from your degree"
"But you've got the experience of school under your belt, and you need the knowledge or else you'd easily fail your degree"

I can't remember how it ended, but I agree that once you've got a degree, school is unimportant (ie, no-one cares if you got 5 A's if you've got a degree in medicine, but they're a key and a map (aha, what a gay metaphor), to help you get into and go through into Uni.

But you usually can't get your degree without GCSEs/SGs, so they are important

Pointless in the end.

Once you've got your degree, there's no need to have GCSE's.

And you can get into Uni (sometimes), without any GCSE's, it's just a hell of a lot more difficult.

Not to me they aren't. My GCSEs got me to where I wanted to go for my A-levels, and my A-levels got me into my first choice degree. I don't see how that could be "pointless".

It is funny looking back on how serious you take every set of exams.... and they're all pretty pointless in the end.