Exams

[MelanieSimone]

My son has final GCSE exams. There is one subject he is not in the least bit interested in and isnt bothered about a GCSE in it. In the first paper he covered it in his favourite subject notes and used it as revision for that subject. Im worried that whoever sees the paper will comment and it might have an affect on him doing his other exams. Seeing maths on a language paper might not go down very well...do i need to worry? x

Some previous posters described it as 'funny'

He'll have to declare it on his UCAS, but I agree, after that, employers won't bother to check.

Sorry! You’re absolutely right, not everyone goes to uni (two of mine have, one probably won’t, I’m only going as a mature student).. I should have said if doing UCAS he’ll need to declare it (even 20 years later, I had a whole saga trying to locate my certificates!)

PotteringAlonggotkickedoutandhadtoreregister · 18/05/2023 21:00

The only problem he will have is that he will have to declare it as an exam he took and it will be on his exam certificates as a U.

”I didn’t think it was important so I didn’t bother” won’t necessarily go down well with employers in the future. It might make no difference at all, but I’m not sure it paints him in a good light.

Actually if it did come up with an employer in the future ( unlikely but anyway) I think it's best to just be honest and say I was extremely young for my age when my did that and in retrospect I realise xyz and I've since learnt that in such and such a situation , the appropriate thing to do is xyz....