Want to do Biology but taking exams a year later, is this going to stop me?

No, IGCSE's are not for state schools. The Level 1/2 Certificate ( IGCSE Certificate for state schools: http://www.edexcel.com/quals/igcse/edexcel-certificate/Pages/default.aspx ) IS for state schools ONLY. Private,International and Homechooled students can do IGCSE's: http://www.edexcel.com/quals/igcse/Pages/default.aspx . There's a difference.

Read that, hahahahah. Stop it, sick and tired of people thinking they know everything.

Whatever you say. You seem to know more.

I know I didn't do the Certificate, as my exam didn't have an 'R' on it. An 'R' is placed on the element code of Certificate exams, to identify them from the iGCSE versions of the papers. Look at iGCSE and Certificate papers, and notice how the Certificate ones have an 'R'.

I also did an CIE iGCSE exam. CIE don't have a 'certificate' alternative for the UK. Yet I was able to do it. Interesting.

Edit: Stop editing your posts and then maybe I'll be able to respond to the whole post.

Ok dear.

Urm well I think you're wrong with theres no cie certificate versions/aternatives because there is well here if you read the bottom(before it goes onto gcse 2015 changes) said that UK indipendent schools(which I said in my previous post above could do the non certificate igcses) can ethier do Cambridge IGCSE or the Level 1/2 certificate versions (then again this proves i'm wrong when I said before that the certificate is ONLY can be used in state schools, but hey ho :P): http://www.cie.org.uk/programmes-and-qualifications/cambridge-secondary-2/cambridge-igcse/uk-schools/

ALSO if you read that its says: "*The syllabuses marked with an asterisk above have a different syllabus code from the Cambridge IGCSE because the content or model of assessment is not exactly the same. All the others are identical. Please see the syllabus document for details."
And if you click on the English Language it states that its avaiable to schools in the zone 3 area which is the uk only http://www.cie.org.uk/programmes-and-qualifications/cambridge-igcse-english-first-language-uk-0522/
The other cie IGCSE English: http://www.cie.org.uk/programmes-and-qualifications/cambridge-igcse-english-first-language-0500/ isn't funded in uk schools and DOESN'T count in league tables.

Idk what cie exam you did and maybe people in state schools were/are to do the 0500 instead of the 0522, maybe all state schoolers can/did do the Cambridge IGCSE instead of the level 1/2 certificate& uk school alternative in all their subjects,maybe I am wrong when I thought that the IGCSE's were only for private/homeschoolers/international students BUT as I was saying, there is clearly CIE cerfiticate versions and alternatives for UK schools, when you're saying there isn't and I don;t know what i'm talking and according to you I can't read.You might have even taken the cie Certificate/Zone 3(UK) Alternative without even knowing and you just thinking its the iGCSE. . Interesting.



As for Edexcel R, numorous people have told me it means different timezone? The R is for people outside uk or england, and they've the made the R paper so people wouldn't cheat,etc maybe its for the certificate douting it because ive actually looked at Edexcel International GCSE:
http://www.edexcel.com/quals/igcse/int-gcse11/Pages/default.aspx and & The Edexcel Certificate: http://www.edexcel.com/quals/igcse/edexcel-certificate/Pages/default.aspx

and you can clearly see they BOTH The Certifcate and International GCSE have R and non R papers for most subjects/exam session, and again if you look The Edexcel Certificate R and non R papers are excalty the same as the International GCSE R and Non R paper(which i'm ngl I thought the certificate papers where different to the IGCSE paper, so yeah that's another mistake of mine:/). I think even if its the same exam papers it can ethier go down on record as The Edexcel Certificate and count towards school league tables and towards the eBacc(which you can only do at school..) or you can have it as a just International GCSE. Does say here the certifcate is based on 2009 spec: http://www.edexcel.com/quals/igcse/edexcel-certificate/Pages/default.aspx
They've made two different pages so even though the papers are the same I think there's a difference, but again CLEARLY both the cert and the iGCSE have got both R and non R papers, so idk where you're going with that the R papers are certificate ones and the non R are the iGCSE which you did...



Tbh idk about OCR iGCSE's but AQA's IGCSE English Lan&Lit are DEFO only available to private/state schools as it includes assessment.(which you cant do at home).


Anyways... it doesn't really matter,gcses/igcses/o level,level 2 and 1's they're all the same level and equivalent to each-other(even if people think vocational qualifications, such as btec,nvq,etc arent and too easy and joke,etc) and can get you to different and higher places... this has gone off-topic, no-one answered my question properly.... so hopefully ill make it to be a biologist or ill sty here and rot and cry for all my life and be stuck in another crap job for me



(sorry for all spelling mistakes/too long to read/confusing,etc... probably need to sort that out if I want to be a biologist!)

Firstly, does it matter? Seems like rather a banal argument

Secondly, I believe that Michael Gove gave state schools the option to do full Cambridge IGCSEs (not certificates) from September 2010.

Tbf No it doesn't yellowcopter doesn't know what tehy're talking about, & I didn;t even mean for it to be an arguement tbh


And oh okay, fairs there's still the cert versions that homeschoolers cant do(like me) but something about for sixth form/college/fe you need goverment approved english(certificates/gcse english) which homeschoolers cant do I only heard that state schools are allowed to do Edexcel IGCSE Certificates in january. Idk much about Cambridge tbh. But whatever.


Anyways no-ones even had made an attempt to answer my question:'( thats al I wanted answering, is my life over(academic wise) because i'm doing everything one year later... Should I go another route....

I'm not even sure what you're asking to be frank with you.

I'm not even sure what you're asking to be frank with you.

Im sixteen, haven't done exams this time round, is doing everything a year later(igcses, a levels,etc) going to stop me from having a carrer in Biology? that's all I wanted to know

Is that clear enough+ Banal? I understand you could have found it boring but how was my post unorginal?

No, it won't stop you. People get put back a year all the time, for a multitude of reasons. I'm Scottish but went to an English curriculum school. I should have left school in 2012 but left in 2013 due to the different systems, and it's not stopped me doing well yet. You'll be fine.



You obviously don't understand what banal means, or you misconstrued what I was saying. I was stating that the argument over IGCSEs was banal, not the original post. No need to get snarky.

I looked up banal.... it means to lack originality and boring... I wasn;t trying to be snarky, sorry if that came across that way... and thankyou

Yes and the argument over IGCSEs and state school was boring, not your original post. If you want to succeed just work hard, do well in your A levels and you'll be fine

Ok dear.