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On 30 January 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved from General Certificate of Secondary Education to GCSE. The result of the discussion was moved.

Diploma in Digital Applictions

Although the DiDA course is studied during the period of GCSEs, technically, it is not a GCSE. Each level is equivalent to a certain amount of GCSEs (e.g. CiDA is equivalent to 2 GCSEs) not an actual GCSE. On the GCSE result day, the qualification is positioned in a different section (as I am studying the DiDA course I am aware of this as informed by my teacher). Should 'DiDA' be placed under a different section on the GCSE page?

New archive request

@Matrix: Unclear rationale. What does "archiving of the old archive" mean? Why can't the archives continue with Archive 2? Jay 💬 16:51, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jay: This archive was way too long, and it was sorted by date making it hard to use with an archiving bot (see [1]). So I merged all the comments from this archive back into Talk:General Certificate of Secondary Education and I'd like to delete this archive and let the bots take over from there. —Matrix(!) (a good person!)_{[Citation not needed at all; thank you very much]} 16:55, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 30 January 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) ❯❯❯ Raydann ^(Talk) 17:21, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

General Certificate of Secondary Education → GCSE – Per MOS:ACROTITLE, GCSE is known primarily by its abbreviation. Just look at the Google Trends graph. And there's nothing in GCSE (disambiguation) that's nearly as big as this exam. Even the UK government calls it "GCSE" and not the full name most of the time. —Matrix(!) (a good person!)_{[Citation not needed at all; thank you very much]} 16:42, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: WikiProject Ireland has been notified of this discussion. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:59, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: WikiProject Education has been notified of this discussion. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:59, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: WikiProject Northern Ireland has been notified of this discussion. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:59, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Weak support - am open to hearing an alternative perspective, but it's fairly undeniable that the acronym is immensely more common in common parlance at least.

Xx78900 (talk) 18:29, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Issue with one statement

« All units for a single subject must be taken in one examination series. Only the first attempt of a student is recorded for school league table purposes, but students may take a subject as many times as they like. »

This I believe is incorrect as in Northern Ireland under the CCEA you can take each unit individually and students often sit exams in multiple exam seasons (for example I have sat GCSE exams in Summer 2023, November 2023, February 2024 and Summer 2024 and they all count towards the same result.

Apologies if I am incorrect but I believe this is exclusive to CCEA and isn’t allowed by any of the other boards. Ashiwashi (talk) 15:05, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comparison

"In the United States, a high school diploma is required for entry into college or university. In the UK, this is considered to be at the level of the GCSE, awarded at Year 11. For college and university admissions in the UK, a high school diploma may be accepted in lieu of the GCSE if an average grade better than D+ is obtained in subjects with a GCSE counterpart.

As A-levels are generally expected for UK university admission, a high school diploma is not considered enough for direct university entry in the UK."

So is a GSCE equivalent to a U.S. high school diploma or not? These paragraphs seem to at least slightly contradict one another, or at least it's not written in a way for maximum clarity. Is the article attempting to explain that for U.S. students who transfer over, that it can be treated as an A-levels equivalent for university/college admission in the UK, but that for UK students, you'd need a A-level for university/college admissions? Criticalthinker (talk) 08:51, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]