I passed my GCE examinations two at a time, but it is worth noting that the Additional Mathematics is not really an "O" level at all; it is halfway to "A" level. Thus I do not have 6 "O" levels; I have 5 "O" levels and one Additional "O" level. Just click on any picture to see it full-sized in a separate window.
Chemistry
Mathematics
English language
Geography
Physics
Additional mathematics
My summer term exam papers were assessed by two different examination boards. The GCE results were the important ones, but it didn't do any harm to have CSE certificates as well. A CSE grade 1 was regarded as the equivalent of a GCE "O" level pass. It is therefore particularly intersting that the CSE assessors gave me a grade 1 in georgaphy although the GCE assessors failed me on that occasion. I passed GCE geography at the second attempt as the GCE results show. The winter term exam papers were only assessed by the GCE board, so I never attained a CSE grade 1 in English language (or General English, as the CSE board preferred to call it), but of course it doesn't matter. Eventually, the GCE and CSE exams were merged into what became the GCSE.
While the the GCE board only gave certificates for passes, the CSE board gave grades, so in listing the subjects, I list the grades too.
General English (2)
English literature (4)
Geography (1)
Mathematics (1)
Chemistry (1)
Physics (2)
Technical drawing (3)
Physics (1)
English literature (3)
The College of Preceptors exams came a year before the first round of GCE and CSE exams. They were primarily intended as a trial run for those more important exams. It is nevertheless interesting that technical drawing was one of the three subjects in which I passed. Results in the more important exams a year later showed that it was not one of my strongest subjects.
English language
Mathematics I
Technical drawing
My City and Guilds certificate came as a result of my performance on a C programming training course.
I wasn't awarded the NVQ Level 2 for my efforts on the business administration course, as a consequence of which Interquad weren't paid for training me; however, I was given an assessment so here's their verdict.
Reading and transmitting information electronically
Receiving and sending mail
Telephone manner
I should never have been awarded any certificate for my efforts at furniture assembly that I described in Career options in factories and warehouses. It devalues the certificates gained by those who earned one on merit. Unlike Interquad, the flat-pack furniture assembly factory were paid whatever happened, because it was a New Deal scheme, not a training course.
