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what is the max. number of gcses one could do?

I seen people on this forum with 13+, 15+ gcses, some with all A* grades. I have even saw a person on this forum (I think it was Ramadulla :s-smilie:

) with like 20+ gcses? :confused:

I mean is this possible?

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Reply 1

DaveJ

Well it's possible if you can cope with the workload I would presume.

Reply 2

OneWayOfLife?

Why would some study over 20 GCSE, there is no need to get so many qualifications even when you don’t need them

Reply 3

Going_To_California

I'm doing 12, but I guess you can do more of you do some early in years 9 or 10, and some are short courses. Also, some courses count as more that one GCSE.
I don't know of anyone who's done so many, but if they could cope with the work required, then I guess there's no problem.

Reply 4

kai4321

Yes I do 13. You could do more although I'm not sure how many there are to do really, unless you do like weak ones like Media Studies and all of them but kinda pointless.

Reply 5

Owl1867

Reply 6

Dr Acula

we at my school it was 12, so i had to do 12

Reply 7

Ooo'Yeah

I'm doing 14.
I don't think there is a limit on how many you can take, it depends on how many your school lets you take, unless you're taking them out of school timetable, and how much of the workload you can cope with.

Reply 8

Frozone

I'm doing 12 (two half-GCSEs), and I think that's the max you can do at my school.

Reply 9

Belle88

Hmmm there's no limit but, what is the actual point of giving yourself more workload? Alevels are far far far more important. I hardly concentrated at all in my GCSEs and got mostly As. And, I see myself goign very far in life :smile:

so, I don't understand why people would give them selves extra pressure at an age where you are counting down to the hell of Alevels hahaha

Reply 10

chairboy1

you could do loads, i mean 25-30, they're really not that hard, especially if you're allowed to do some each year from say year 8 onwards.

Reply 11

amani-puresapphire

im doing 12 too

Reply 12

laurenlodge

Depends how much of a life one wants, I suppose.
But there must be reasons why schools set limits on how many their kids can take - ours for example, = 10.

Reply 13

La Esmerelda

Anyone who has more than 12 GCSE's has no life. Ditto with more than 5 A-Levels.

Reply 14

Annaconda

i did 13 and it was easy

Reply 15

username219321

20+ even though any more than 12 or so is complete waste of time.

Reply 16

azhao

Once you've finished your GCSEs and are donig A Levels you'll see that there really was no point doing so many. The Average Cambridge applicant that gets in has between 6-8 A*s

Reply 17

rachxl

depends on your school, but the maximum amount of GCSEs total = amount of subjects available I guesss... slightly pointless though tbh, unless you take a load year 10 and then more year 11.

Reply 18

Ooo'Yeah

I took 3 of my 14 last year, year 10. 2 of them I did out of school timetable because one was a language that I already knew, and another was offered to me by the school.
Tbh I just did them because I thought, I might as well, just in case I don't do as well in my others, and I had time for them too.

Reply 19

--Dan--

im so academic

I seen people on this forum with 13+, 15+ gcses, some with all A* grades. I have even saw a person on this forum (I think it was Ramadulla :s-smilie:

) with like 20+ gcses? :confused:

I mean is this possible?

There's your problem :smile:

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