GCSE

abbreviation

1. General Certificate of Secondary Education: a public examination in specified subjects for 16-year-old schoolchildren. It replaced the GCE O-level and CSE

Example Sentences

And she addressed the claims that scrapping the EBacc could lead to fewer pupils taking history, geography and languages at GCSE, saying the measure "hasn't led to improved outcomes" or "improvement in language study".

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Since attending the Link, Tamsin and Amber have managed to complete some of their GCSE's and said it had had a positive impact on their confidence.

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The problem may also be more deeply rooted, and in many cases may go far further back than GCSE.

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Ms Duffy called for a strategy on AI after an independent curriculum and assessment review said it would consider reducing the "overall volume of assessment" at GCSE.

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Data gathered by survey tool Teacher Tapp, commissioned by teaching charity Teach First, suggests 15% of schools in the poorest communities cannot offer computer science GCSE, compared to 4% of the wealthiest schools.

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