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How many GCSEs did you do/are you doing?

Reply 20

courtyboy02

2

12 GCSEs! That is how many I did, only remedials do less than 10!

13, far too many!

I did 12. An extra ICT in Year 10. An extra music in Year 11. And elected to sit the RE full course exam instead of the short course.

No Future: Chill! You are becoming a little obsessive about these things! :biggrin:

First you want to get 11A*s, now you want to make sure 11 is enough!

My advice: go out and have a drink...

...or 11!!! :wink:

Reply 23

No Future

OP

17

edmundwillis

I did 12. An extra ICT in Year 10. An extra music in Year 11. And elected to sit the RE full course exam instead of the short course.

No Future: Chill! You are becoming a little obsessive about these things! :biggrin:

First you want to get 11A*s, now you want to make sure 11 is enough!

My advice: go out and have a drink...

...or 11!!! :wink:

Lol, I know!

Reply 24

kellywood_5

17

courtyboy02

12 GCSEs! That is how many I did, only remedials do less than 10!

Did it ever occur to you that some schools only let their pupils sit about 9 or 10? That's hardly their fault, is it? Besides that, you only need 6 at the most to go on to A-levels, so it's irrelevant whether you have 6 or 14. You said nothing about grades either; if one person had 9 A*s and someone else had 14 Cs, the one with more GCSEs would be the 'remedial' one, although I hate to use that word.

Reply 25

Johnny 5

12

No Future: Chill! You are becoming a little obsessive about these things! First you want to get 11A*s, now you want to make sure 11 is enough!

Wish I'd got 12 A*s.

Reply 26

No Future

OP

17

OMG 9 people did 12 or more GCSEs!!
I'll have to start doing extras outside school!

Reply 27

Chris87

1

I did 10 but finished my GCSE Maths early. The top Maths set in our school does the GCSE earlier and then does Additional Maths in the second year.

Reply 28

IZZY!

15

Chris87

I did 10 but finished my GCSE Maths early. The top Maths set in our school does the GCSE earlier and then does Additional Maths in the second year.

What is Additional Maths?Is it GCSE as well?

Reply 29

Wise One

11

I did 11; 10 at my school, plus Astronomy GCSE in the evenings at another school (with about 2 lessons every three weeks and next to no revision, I got a B)

Overall I got 1 A*, 7 A's, 2 B's and a C (Drama - pah.)

Reply 30

GH

13

Wise One

I did 11; 10 at my school, plus Astronomy GCSE in the evenings at another school (with about 2 lessons every three weeks and next to no revision, I got a B)

Overall I got 1 A*, 7 A's, 2 B's and a C (Drama - pah.)

Ohh fellow past GCSE Astronomy student! I did 13, 3 in my spare time [inc. Astronomy ;D]

Reply 31

edmundwillis

5

2 + 2 = 5: I wish I got 12 A*s as well but we can't have everything can we?! I 'only' (for these forums anyway) got 6A*s, 5As and (an annoying) B simply because I didn't bother revising very much (if at all :redface:

).

Anyway, did you not get 11 A*s? :rolleyes:

Who's going to notice the difference? :biggrin:

Admittedly, Loxbridge and the rest might swing an application in favour of a person with one more A* if candidates are otherwise identical but I think this would only apply to subjects like medicine and law etc. which by sheer applications/offers ratio are a bit of a lottery anyway.

Unless you were trying to be sarcastic or dry and I missed it. I'm hopeless at picking up dead pan. :frown:

Reply 32

Lottie

9

I'm doing nine full course GCSEs and one short course GCSE, which appears to be the most my school allows.

Reply 33

ikkle_emmie

im doin 9

i spose thats ok
English Lit
English Lang
RE <compulsary in my skool>
Food Tech <Also Compulsary To do a tech>
Drama
Modern World History
Maths
Dual Science

Reply 34

Mrs Rickman

2

I did 10 (12 if you count GNVQ ICT which we had to do in years 8 and 9 which i don't) and that was enough! How are there enough hours in the day to do 14??? Unless you're already bilingual and so just sit those language exams i guess.

Reply 35

riotgrrrl

3

It was quite easy to do 13 at my school, around five students did, here they are, all in school time apart from statistics which was a couple of random lessons with our teacher which ended up being parties :s-smilie:

English lit
English Lang
Maths
Statistics
Biology
Chemistry
Physics
Food Tech
French
History
Music
ICT (Full)
R.E (Full)

Everyone did full R.E then around half took the exam, ICT the top 50ish took it after no extra lessons

HH

Reply 36

SinghFello

2

I did 9.5 in school, and 1 out of school (Punjabi).

Maths
Double science
English
English lit
Geography
History
Graphic Products
French
IT (Short course)
Punjabi

Reply 37

heather2

i did 10:
english language
drama
maths
double award science - do all sciences and get 2 gcses for it
french
food tech
german
geography
RE (full course)

Reply 38

Luize

13

I did 8 I think with GNVQ ICT (havne't included that in my 8)
dropped language (german) because I had moved schools and had only done french before then.

Reply 39

benjones_1841

Our school offers 11 GCSEs, but those who were in top-set Maths had to do Stats too - so I did 12. I ended up with 4A* 6A 2B.

How many GCSEs did you do/are you doing?

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