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Language Gccse is it unfair?

I found out that i can not do a slovak GCSE as it is not a Ancient language.... These are the only language I can do in school... There is not even Czech!

Arabic
Cantonese
French
German
Greek
Italian
Mandarin
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Turkish
Urdu
Can anyone help?

Reply 1

leeloveslanguage

they won't allow you to do an exam if there is no exam board which hosts exams in that language. all of those exams you've listed are hosted by either AQA or Edexcel. there is sadly no slovak or czech GCSE exam

Reply 2

Danyal Sami

Original post

by Honeybee240212

I found out that i can not do a slovak GCSE as it is not a Ancient language.... These are the only language I can do in school... There is not even Czech!
Arabic
Cantonese
French
German
Greek
Italian
Mandarin
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Turkish
Urdu
Can anyone help?

I'm so shocked by the amount of languages offered by your school at GCSE level ... My school simply offers French, German, Spanish and Russian. I do French, German, and Turkish outside of school. As far as I am aware, currently it is not possible to take Czech or Slovak language GCSE. … none of the awarding bodies offer that qualification unfortunately. However if you know Slovak/Czech, learning Polish is much easier than other languages on that list.