GCSEs are an utter joke

Are you referring to me?

You're an utter joke

I did a Spanish GCSE Higher Reading as a laugh (never studied Spanish), and got a comfortable A*! :')

No, that is a pisstake. You cannot walk into a language exam for a language you don't know and get an A*. It doesn't matter how intelligent you are, if you don't know it you don't know it.

I think some GCSEs could stand to be made a little harder, such as maths perhaps, but the above just loses you all credibility.

well at least that isn't complete BS -.-

I think it depends on the subject really - some subjects require more specific knowledge (e.g. geography) whereas some is more common sense, like english language. Now not being cocky but I can walk into an english language exam and get an A or an A*, not because it's hilariously easy but because I have decent exam technique. I assume that the difference between GCSE and A level is that in a levels, a lot more subject knowledge understanding is required than what we're doing now.


Just bear in mind that not everyone in the world are boffins like on here the exam boards need a spread of grades, they can't just make it harder and have 75% of the country get Ds and Es

I assure you it's true! (Saying that, I am Italian, I just took informed guesses.)

I assure you it's true! (Saying that, I am Italian, I just took informed guesses.)

I assure you it's true! (Saying that, I am Italian, I just took informed guesses.)

I did a Spanish GCSE past Higher Reading Paper and got an A*. I've never studied Spanish, nor am I Spanish, or have Spanish relatives.

You should've said that. That's like me saying I got an A* in English Language when I had only studied English Lit.

Well duh, no wonder you got an A*. As far as I know some words are similar (but not totally the same) so obviously your informed guesses will be a lot more accurate than someone who's not Italian.

Spanish comprehension is easy for Italian speakers. Good luck in the oral.

Haha, I'm not doing the actual GCSE... I can only say a few basic phrases, but I plan to try and learn Spanish!

Just goes to show how detached TSR is from real life. Maybe the OP is true for a select elite of students, but for the vast majority, it really isn't.

Agree, in my year atleast, additional maths seperated the bright from the very clever. I just did a past paper and did some hard calculus questions the day before, got an A

Anyways, GCSE is somewhat hard, I'd say that the hardest is probably the sciences and perhaps history.

To add, whoever said languages were easy is a retard, languages are hard subjects if your not already fluent, only very smart people/the talented get A*s.