[Miss O.C.D]

My Dad left school with GCSEs so I've overtaken him by doing A levels. My Mother has a Diploma in Orthoptics, but I intend to do a phD in the future and surpass her too :3

[Psyk]

I suppose I do as neither of my parents have degrees. Although it seems strange to me to think about it in that way.

[EGjeff]

'On par' with my Mum who has a BA, though not a patch on the old man, Masters in Physics and his ATPL - which is the commercial pilots' qualification.

[tillytots]

My mum has a levels and My dad has GCSE's so academically I have beaten them. However, they are both business owners so i doubt i'll ever earn as much as them.

[minimarshmallow]

My dad has two O Levels, my mum has 6 O Levels and two NVQ level 3s. I don't have my degree yet but I still say I do because although they're equivalent, I have 4 A Levels compared to my mum's 2 NVQs.
Although I could have gone with plan to because I plan to do both a masters and a PhD.

[shorty.loves.angels]

My Mum maybe passed the odd O-level back in 65, and I don't think my Dad was even fortunate enough to go to school during most of his childhood I have a BSc.

I think I could have gained better grades than the two of them combined by just writing my name on my GCSE papers, bless them but they worked hard and tried to give my brothers and I opportunities that they didn't have so hats off to them.

[cl_steele]

(Original post by Slumpy)
http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/students/...uation/ma.html
Apparently some employers don't know it's a fakery though

you cheeky little sod, props for that though

[prog2djent]

(Original post by JamalAhmed)
LOL you sound like my Nan's neighbour's 5 year old daughter LOOL. She repeats stuff like that.

Like?

[AJCSShp]

I don't know what to vote for
My dad has a phD, so no way will I ever surpass him.
My mum left school with 3 CSEs, so I beat her 2 years ago

[JordanS94]

I got better when I was in year 9 ...

[Regent]

Predictably 'Yes' will be the dominant selection.

[anna-chipie 95]

mum has 7 cses/o-levels, and 3 alevels. oh and a ba from a polytechnic.
dad: no idea on olevels, 3 alevels and a cambridge ba.
i only say the uni name because everyone seems to think cambridge is better than some random old poly. but they got the same degree classification ( i think). and in the end, that's all that matters.

i have 10 gcses, done 4 as levels and will do 3 alevels, hopefully a ba, and then maybe a masters (heh heh) or maybe another ba degree (cos im weird like that )

[TimmonaPortella]

I already have better qualifications than my parents by having A levels. In 3 years or so I'll be out of sight.

[abc:)]

My parents both did postgrad courses, I dunno if I wana do that but I do wana graduate from uni so I guess I want to be round about where they are when I'm their age.

[Laurah5498]

My mom has 9 O Levels and 2 A Levels. She's a nurse so did whatever the degree equivalent was in the 1980s.

Dad has 10 O Levels. He didn't bother to turn up for his A Level exams!

I'm more qualified than my dad but on a par with my mom. She's a Band 8A and practically runs the place! She does work extremely hard bless her


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[Nick1sHere]

Loads of people with parents who have degrees... Both my mum and dad only have O levels.

Still, they're both doing well I guess

[mc1000]

My dad has a MA from Cambridge. I have a BSc from Loughborough.

So... no.

[Craig_D]

(Original post by mc1000)
My dad has a MA from Cambridge. I have a BSc from Loughborough.

So... no.

As in, the automatic BA upgrade after 6 years? I hate those things.

[mc1000]

(Original post by Craig_D)
As in, the automatic BA upgrade after 6 years? I hate those things.

Yep. He also has an MBA; I've got a bit of catching up to do...

In fairness, though, the upgrade does seem reasonable to me - considering the gulf in workload between Oxbridge and every other university.

[siani-chan]

My mum left school at 16 with barely any O Levels. My dad also left school at 16 but began as an apprentice for Ford - I think as part of that he had to get a civil engineering diploma and some other qualifications but nothing else. It felt kind of weird when a teacher asked this question in secondary school and nearly everyone in my form's parents had at least a degree. Doesn't bother me now.