chloe16v
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Registered: 29th Nov 07
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Originally posted by VXR
Don't do GCSE's, really pointless stuff, they are only there as the next step of education. Pointless things.
Go straight into NVQ's, or formal qualifications for a job (IE, in IT, you'd do specialist IT courses, a GCSE IT simply won't cut it  ).
Think about what you want to do, and go directly to those courses, the GCSE's really will be a waste of time.
Then your getting proper training thats designed for a job/career. Chances are, u'll catch on quick.
but the course i want to go onto at uni asks for 5 gcse's at least, i have emailed them and asked what qualifications a mature student would need as i have read that mature students dont need the same qualifications, just have to wait and see what they reply 
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Phi
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im not trying to sound rude but why dont you choose a course that will suit your qaulifications/needs more, i know everyone says work towards somthing higher, but i wouldnt suggest trying for a uni course, id start off with NVQ's if i was you.
phone the local college and ask to speak to a careers advisor, rather than asking loads of different peope on here who have all had different experiances.
the only way to resolve this is to phone the college careers advisors ?
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Phi
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you might find you will need grade C or above excluding the lower level of gcse? did you ask?
i did foundation level of gcse's so i got the highest i could of got in that category. baring in mind this was 2001, so times change really quick.
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Robbo
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I think the problem evgeryone is mising here (because by law everyone takes their gcse's) is that gcse's are almost always the minimum qual to do ANYHTING... we all ignore/take it for granted because 99.9999% of people sit their GCSEs!
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chloe16v
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i do need grade c or above, i am willing to start low down in college and work my way up to uni, but there is only one job i want to do, and i need to go to uni to study
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Kathryn W
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As long as you have GCSE's then you can do any course and get into any job really.
College here offers them to whoever wants to study them..
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