Alison H wrote: |
Josette gives her reason for wanting to go to St Mildred's as being spending more time with her friends ... which doesn't seem very convincing. I know that it's weird when you leave school and go to different unis/colleges and are split up after several years together, but I'm not sure how one more year's going to make that easier. |
JS wrote: |
I don't remember having any problems with the Elma storyline, but I did think it odd that they got into trouble for playing cards on a Sunday. Clearly I had a heaten upbringing. |
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JS wrote:
I don't remember having any problems with the Elma storyline, but I did think it odd that they got into trouble for playing cards on a Sunday. Clearly I had a heaten upbringing. |
JayB wrote: |
But they don't take exams at St Mildred's, do they? They've already done their A Levels, or Higher School Cert, if that's what it was called, by the time they get there. So it's definitely post-Sixth form. |
Alison H wrote: |
Presumably they all passed by being good Chalet girls, as you said, and got into uni the same way!
EBD could've made a good storyline out of someone failing, like when Alicia failed her School Cert in Malory Towers because she was ill ... |
Alison H wrote: |
girl collapses due to exam stress, etc. |
Sunglass wrote: |
I would have thought Simone, the other early careerist, would have needed the baccalaureat or its 1930s equivalent to enter the Sorbonne - France has never been particularly impressed by the idea of foreign equivalents!) at a centre in Britain, then? |
KB wrote: |
I would imagine that either branch in Switzerland would have been more expensive than the English branch because of travel costs and the costs associated with sending luggage over to the Continent. |
Changes wrote: |
‘There’s one thing,’ Julie said, as they turned and sauntered down the drive, ‘and that is all this ought to dispose of Tom’s objections, oughtn’t it? I mean, if the school at large is going to Switzerland, she might just as well go to the Welsen branch as the one up at the Platz.’
‘Yes; that’s true,’ Bride agreed. ‘Good! I’d have hated to miss old Tom after all this years together.’ Bess, who was in many ways the most thoughtful of them all, shook her head, ‘I wouldn’t be so sure about that. Tom’s people may decide that she must go on and finish at St Agnes’. I know they’re fearfully poor, for I’ve heard Dad say so. He always said it was a shame that Mr Gay didn’t have a better living after the way he’s worked.’ |
Sunglass wrote: |
And, really, all of the girls would be expecting to sit public exams by the Swiss years? Interesting - I'd been vaguely assuming that it would still have been not uniform... |
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Also, I suspect they took a varying number of exams depending on ability (and a much smaller number than we take today). My mother, for instance, only sat five O levels in the 1950s, and didn't take maths at all.
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Katya wrote: |
I recall at least one of my parents (possibly both) saying that you had to pass five O-levels in the same exam session in order to get your General Certificate of Education - it wasn't a GCE in each subject, but a General Certificate, hence the need for a range.* |
MaryR wrote: | ||
I went at to school at the same time as your parents, Katya, and each subject counted on its own merits. You didn't have to get five for it to count. I only passed four as I was ill, but they still counted - and took two more in the Sixth, along with A leverls. But we could only take the exam if we had passed our mock exams earlier in the year. And we certainly didn't take as many O or A levels as they do today. |
MaryR wrote: |
...each subject counted on its own merits. You didn't have to get five for it to count. I only passed four as I was ill, but they still counted - and took two more in the Sixth, along with A leverls. But we could only take the exam if we had passed our mock exams earlier in the year. And we certainly didn't take as many O or A levels as they do today. |
PaulineS wrote: |
GCSE's came in the late sixties so that none grammer schools could offer exams. . |
Lolly wrote: | ||
Pauline, I think you are confusing CSEs with GCSEs....GCSEs came in in the late 80s I believe. I took them in 1992 and could recall the change from O level to GCSE happening while I was at the school. And many of our teachers still referred to O levels... |
Becky wrote: |
I did GCSEs in 1996 and we had A* then (I got A* in French and German ), but my SLOC said they weren't available when he did GCSEs - that was either 93 or 94. |
abbeybufo wrote: |
My elder stepdaughter was taking both GCEs and CSEs [2 exams in the same subject, for several of them!] in about 1980 so they were still separate then, can't remember if they'd been merged by time younger s-daughter did hers a couple of years later |
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Just a word for those who imagine that CSE was an easy option. I taught it for many years and the candidates had to produce a folder of work that covered all types of writing for the English component, and all types of responses for Literature to cover prose,poetry and drama + imaginative responses to these three genres.
And the two exams were no picnic either. So a grade 1 CSE was the equivalent of a 'C' grade in GCE. |
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