What is a GCSE 'EC' grade?

Tungtvann · World Chat Champion Joined: 07 Dec 2012 Karma :

Found some old GCSE results in a cupboard, always knew they were really shit grades, but saw I had an 'EC' for one of the subjects. It's not a double mod like I did for science, and the grade was written as B B for that, but wtf is EC? Does is count as a C, E or both?

Aff · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 May 2011 Karma :

What was the subject?
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Tungtvann · World Chat Champion Joined: 07 Dec 2012 Karma :

English. Not English lit, I got a separate grade for that.

TheCatSatOnTh... · Scooby Slapper Joined: 30 Nov 2013 Karma :

My GCSE in "English Language" is split in two. You had the main grade and then a contributing grade for 'spoken'.

Tungtvann · World Chat Champion Joined: 07 Dec 2012 Karma :

That sounds like it could be that, I fucked off all my coursework and got a poor grade, but I was good at the rest of the English language! So, it's just an E then?

Marcg868 · World Chat Champion Joined: 20 Jan 2005 Karma :

Mine was combined English and I got DB so it's probably E and C.
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lihp · World Chat Champion Joined: 22 Sep 2010 Karma :

It will be combined English

E and C

1 for Language, the other for Literature.

Tungtvann · World Chat Champion Joined: 07 Dec 2012 Karma :

No, I got a seperate grade for that. As in, it says:

English EC
English Lit E

I wasn't very good at English, clearly.

iMark · World Chat Champion Joined: 13 Nov 2011 Karma :

Don't even remember how mines was graded but I presume the literature part is purely for your coursework writing and spelling but the English part is for your reading and writing for the exam at the end of the year? was there an oral exam? I forget Rolling Eyes

maybe Reading and Talking?

I know I can't read for shit out loud as I read faster than what I can speak so my mind just goes fubar and shits its self if I try Laughing

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angryjonny · World Chat Champion Joined: 01 Sep 2006 Karma :

They got an E. And they can't type either.

Edit. And I can't read. You got an E and the exam board can't type.

Tungtvann · World Chat Champion Joined: 07 Dec 2012 Karma :

Probably, I needed a C grade in English for a job and blagged it that it was actually a C I got. My English is actually of a good standard, I just was very shit at school.

moonzoomer · World Chat Champion Joined: 01 Jul 2012 Karma :

what is a GCSE for that matter? Laughing

Llama-Farmer · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Jan 2012 Karma :

When did you do your GCSEs? I think I have heard something about dual grades for coursework or if there are different parts of the subject, but that was scrapped for a single grade.

I managed a C in English Language. I am able to speak, read, write and understand it perfectly. I was just not very good at analysing poetry or creative writing. Pretty hopeless infact at analysing poetry.
IMO that should all be covered in English Literature instead, which should be an optional subject.

On the other hand I managed to get As in French and Spanish, not bad considering I started learning Spanish from scratch only 2 years before GCSEs.

Pretty odd I think that the English Language GCSE is harder than a foreign language GCSE. Should keep language in the Language exam, and literature in the Literature exam.
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