1988 GCSE Health Studies

[Scindy]

I’m trying to get into uni somewhat belatedly!
I have lost all my GCSE/16+ certificates.

Did anyone sit a Health Studies GCSE in 1988, and if so what was the exam board?

Ive been calling it Health and Social Care but just found an old CV and it was definitely called Health Studies. I’m a bit desperate as I’ve 2 interviews and they want proof!!!! Talk about last minute 😱

No idea but employers normally do a check with a company to verify qualifications. I've had 3 jobs in finance and this has been the case every time. I have no idea where my certificates are and I took them in 2009...

Yes you’d think there’d be a central agency you could obtain your own qualifications from! University doesn’t seem to be able to do a check. My DD worked in recruitment so I do realise companies can do a search. Thank you for trying to help.

Phone up your school/college and ask. There is a central list btw assuming you're mid 20s.

Oh sorry that was someone else's dates. No the records won't go back to 1988 I'm afraid, but google, there were only a handful of exam boards and you just need to find out what they each are called now, and search their websites for how to confirm old records.

There are only a small number of exam boards now, but there were more in 1988. A lot of these have amalgamated together to form bigger ones e.g. Edexcel and AQA. I would try contacting these 2 first as they have the largest number of candidates.
The other exam boards are OCR and WJEC.

I’m a little older than you and remember as exam boards JMB, Oxford, Cambridge
Can you try those
There were definitely lots of others then though as well.

I can look at work on Monday if you still need it by then.

But as a pp said, there are only the 4 boards now if in England/Wales.

All the records for the many boards that used to exist have been taken over by mostly AQA and Pearson/Edexcel. A small minority will be with OCR and very few with WJEC if any. So try them in that order and one of them should be able to help. There is a charge though, around £40 I think?

I've had a look and our school didn't do GCSE Health Studies in 1988, sorry.

I'm sure you'll find it with AQA or Edexcel though.