School Certificate

British

noun

SC. (in England and Wales between 1917 and 1951 and currently in New Zealand) a certificate awarded to school pupils who pass a public examination: the equivalent of GCSE

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“She told me, ‘Of course, you can't expect to get anywhere without your School Certificate’.

From BBC

She joined a drama club, studied for a London Guildhall drama school certificate, and finally joined a local theatre company in 1942.

From BBC

As Adrian Wooldridge points out in his magisterial 2021 book, “The Aristocracy of Talent,” “Sixty percent of births to women with only a high school certificate occur out of wedlock, compared with only 10% to women with a university degree.”

From Seattle Times

About 1.25 million grade-six pupils are soon to sit exams as part of the Kenya Leaving School Certificate that determines their entrance to secondary school.

From BBC

"When she was a child, her father took her to the nearby town of Rairangpur when a minister in the Odisha government, Kartik Majhi, was visiting. Suddenly, she ran up onto the stage, waving her school certificate, and told the minister that she wanted to study in Bhubaneswar."

From BBC

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