Talk:GCSE

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the GCSE article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Archives: Index, 1: 90 days

Text and/or other creative content from this version of General Certificate of Secondary Education was copied or moved into English Baccalaureate with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

This article is written in British English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, travelled, centre, defence, artefact, analyse) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Ireland Low‑importance

	Ireland portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Ireland, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Ireland on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.IrelandWikipedia:WikiProject IrelandTemplate:WikiProject IrelandIreland articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article has been automatically rated by a bot or other tool because one or more other projects use this class. Please ensure the assessment is correct before removing the `\|auto=` parameter.

Education Mid‑importance

	Education portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Education, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of education and education-related topics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.EducationWikipedia:WikiProject EducationTemplate:WikiProject Educationeducation articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Northern Ireland Mid‑importance

	Northern Ireland portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Northern Ireland, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Northern Ireland on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Northern IrelandWikipedia:WikiProject Northern IrelandTemplate:WikiProject Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland-related articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

On 30 January 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved from General Certificate of Secondary Education to GCSE. The result of the discussion was moved.

Who[edit]

The use of Who in citations is pedantic and unneccessary, and is detrimental to the article. It is not neccessary for us to know who are the opponents and proponents of something, it is a virtual certainty that there are proponents and opponents of everything. These citations make the article very unreadable; I suggest they be removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.241.90.188 (talk) 23:50, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree completely, nobody except the original author is really going to know "[who]" the quotes come from, and it just ruins the article. Whoever put them in please remove them and either find out the references for yourself, or nag the original author into doing so, in the DISCUSSION page, not the main article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Matthewwilletts (talk • contribs) 16:57, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have restored those tags. Please review WP:AWW, they are standard tags and should be added to articles that contain weasel words. Words such as "some people say" are either going to have to be replaced with specific persons, groups, or organisations, or those sentences are going to have to be removed. Ultimately I think this section needs to be re-written from scratch, but time constraints have delayed me from doing so. You are welcome to contribute by adding sources and replacing weasel words if you wish; but please do not remove tags without actually resolving the issue. Camaron1 | Chris (talk) 20:55, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think the tag you might have been looking for was 'citation needed'. It is generally better practice and less irritating to read in an article. I have never seen 'who?!?!?!' being used as a tag before. --JackHosken (talk) 20:42, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Citation needed only relates to WP:V issues, attribution needed (the who tag has now been merged into) relates to WP:AWW, which is more specific on the issue. Camaron | Chris (talk) 20:57, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Number of Student[edit]

The number of students taking the GCSE each year should be written somewhere in the article, possibly at the top —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.232.78.202 (talk) 20:52, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Diploma in Digital Applictions[edit]

Although the DiDA course is studied during the period of GCSEs, technically, it is not a GCSE. Each level is equivalent to a certain amount of GCSEs (e.g. CiDA is equivalent to 2 GCSEs) not an actual GCSE. On the GCSE result day, the qualification is positioned in a different section (as I am studying the DiDA course I am aware of this as informed by my teacher). Should 'DiDA' be placed under a different section on the GCSE page?

New archive request[edit]

@Matrix: Unclear rationale. What does "archiving of the old archive" mean? Why can't the archives continue with Archive 2? Jay 💬 16:51, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jay: This archive was way too long, and it was sorted by date making it hard to use with an archiving bot (see [1]). So I merged all the comments from this archive back into Talk:General Certificate of Secondary Education and I'd like to delete this archive and let the bots take over from there. —Matrix(!) (a good person!)_{[Citation not needed at all; thank you very much]} 16:55, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 30 January 2024[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) ❯❯❯ Raydann ^(Talk) 17:21, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

General Certificate of Secondary Education → GCSE – Per MOS:ACROTITLE, GCSE is known primarily by its abbreviation. Just look at the Google Trends graph. And there's nothing in GCSE (disambiguation) that's nearly as big as this exam. Even the UK government calls it "GCSE" and not the full name most of the time. —Matrix(!) (a good person!)_{[Citation not needed at all; thank you very much]} 16:42, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: WikiProject Ireland has been notified of this discussion. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:59, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: WikiProject Education has been notified of this discussion. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:59, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: WikiProject Northern Ireland has been notified of this discussion. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:59, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Weak support - am open to hearing an alternative perspective, but it's fairly undeniable that the acronym is immensely more common in common parlance at least.

Xx78900 (talk) 18:29, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.