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How many GCSEs?

Arran Cameron
At a meeting of parents it was mentioned that back when they were at secondary school it was common to take only 8 or 9 subjects for GCSE whereas in more recent years students often take 12 or 13 GCSEs.


How many GCSEs do you think is sufficient and appropriate for a career in engineering and how many is overkill?
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    Howard Warren:

    When I left school in the mid 80's, I seem to remember there was a "core" of Maths, English, one science, one foreign language and one craft. This was what most employers demanded back then, and you were expected to achieve decent pass marks in these five subjects. Anything over and above this was a bonus. These "extra" qualifications were the student's choice from the "options". In my case, the extra options were two further sciences, arithmetic, an additional language and art (yes, art - but only because I couldn't decide which "enrichment" option to take, they all seemed like a waste of time, so I left it blank and was slotted into the subject - and having absolutely zero artistic talent, and even less interest, I achieved a grade that was well towards the wrong end of the alphabet).




    Foreign languages were not compulsory for O Level at my mother's school back in the 1980s. Arts subjects were only available to students who could demonstrate a reasonable degree of talent in them in Y9 in order to reduce the number of dossers.


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    Howard Warren:

    When I left school in the mid 80's, I seem to remember there was a "core" of Maths, English, one science, one foreign language and one craft. This was what most employers demanded back then, and you were expected to achieve decent pass marks in these five subjects. Anything over and above this was a bonus. These "extra" qualifications were the student's choice from the "options". In my case, the extra options were two further sciences, arithmetic, an additional language and art (yes, art - but only because I couldn't decide which "enrichment" option to take, they all seemed like a waste of time, so I left it blank and was slotted into the subject - and having absolutely zero artistic talent, and even less interest, I achieved a grade that was well towards the wrong end of the alphabet).




    Foreign languages were not compulsory for O Level at my mother's school back in the 1980s. Arts subjects were only available to students who could demonstrate a reasonable degree of talent in them in Y9 in order to reduce the number of dossers.


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