3 CSEs - any good?

[CheckTrousersBlanco]

I was born in 1969 - hence I didn’t do GCSEs. I did all CSEs - no O Levels.

My mum said I did better than my brother a year younger who got no qualifications at all.

So mumsnetters - be honest - do you see 3 CSEs as good ?

Thank you @x2boys, that is exactly what I meant.

Seems like @Dangermoomust have stopped reading halfway through my sentence to have got that so wrong.

@CheckTrousersBlancoyour latest replies have convinced me that there really is something else going on and I suspect you may be in a bad place to be ruminating over this so many years later, and constantly drawing some kind of parallel between the GCEs and your age / weight / attractiveness.

Is there something in your life you are unhappy about? Are you worried about aging? Have you managed to work throughout your life? If not, do you feel it’s your school qualifications that have held you back?

It’s equivalent to a pass eg C (now called a 3?) or above ONLY if you achieved a Grade 1 in the CSE. A Grade 2 = a D; a Grade 3 = an E etc

@FlorescentInk

Did you mean 3 x CSEs? O’Levels and GCSEs weren’t available at the same time. GCSEs came after O’ Levels.

@CheckTrousersBlanco

‘Well yes-not to mention…’

As someone else pointed out; your answers are bizarre. You seem to judge yourself and other women only by how young you/they look for their age and whether they could get picked up by a man at a nightclub based on your/their appearance.

No, ‘every woman’s Holy Grail is’ not ‘getting down below 8 stone’.

Frankly, your responses are based on a superficial judgement system (if they’re even genuine) and have become tedious.

I should hope getting better qualifications than 3 cse's would be every woman's holy grail. If I was below eight stone I'd look ill.
And, no, 3 cse's is not good, its actually very bad.

It’s not unusual and wasn’t seen as much of a problem to have few qualifications. The thing is - and this cuts across lots of things - many 50 something’s have many years left to work but we came up in a different time and that’s not understood.

i have qualifications up the wazoo but my work history doesnt look stellar. People glancing over my cv won’t necessarily understand that my first few jobs actively and explicitly held women back. I was told not to apply for my boss’s job because “we need a man in here”. I asked why I wasn’t getting a pay rise and was told “ceo doesnt like clever young women”. All of this happened again and again and now I have to compete in a marketplace that doesnt think sexism exists. All women do.

so people saying “why do you care now” - well we all have to work and earn now, dont we? We’re not suddenly on a private income

I did read your complete post. It doesn't matter what age somebody is; they can reflect on their past educational achievements for whatever reason they want. I think you're reading more into it than the OP, who is being lighthearted in her responses.