Talk:GCSE

Who
The use of Who in citations is pedantic and unneccessary, and is detrimental to the article. It is not neccessary for us to know who are the opponents and proponents of something, it is a virtual certainty that there are proponents and opponents of everything. These citations make the article very unreadable; I suggest they be removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.241.90.188 (talk) 23:50, 5 November 2007 (UTC) I agree completely, nobody except the original author is really going to know "[who]" the quotes come from, and it just ruins the article. Whoever put them in please remove them and either find out the references for yourself, or nag the original author into doing so, in the DISCUSSION page, not the main article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Matthewwilletts (talk • contribs) 16:57, 5 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I have restored those tags. Please review WP:AWW, they are standard tags and should be added to articles that contain weasel words. Words such as "some people say" are either going to have to be replaced with specific persons, groups, or organisations, or those sentences are going to have to be removed. Ultimately I think this section needs to be re-written from scratch, but time constraints have delayed me from doing so. You are welcome to contribute by adding sources and replacing weasel words if you wish; but please do not remove tags without actually resolving the issue. Camaron1 | Chris (talk) 20:55, 5 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I think the tag you might have been looking for was 'citation needed'. It is generally better practice and less irritating to read in an article. I have never seen 'who?!?!?!' being used as a tag before. --JackHosken (talk) 20:42, 7 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Citation needed only relates to WP:V issues, attribution needed (the who tag has now been merged into) relates to WP:AWW, which is more specific on the issue. Camaron | Chris (talk) 20:57, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Number of Student
The number of students taking the GCSE each year should be written somewhere in the article, possibly at the top —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.232.78.202 (talk) 20:52, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

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
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)


 * This archive was way too long, and it was sorted by date making it hard to use with an archiving bot (see ). 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!)&#91;Citation not needed at all; thank you very much&#93; 16:55, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

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)

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!)&#91;Citation not needed at all; thank you very much&#93; 16:42, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: WikiProject Ireland has been notified of this discussion. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:59, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: WikiProject Education has been notified of this discussion. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:59, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: WikiProject Northern Ireland has been notified of this discussion. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:59, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
 * 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)

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)