• Question: Did u take gcse ci if u had it as a option

    Asked by user519fens on 8 Nov 2024.
    • Photo: John Easton

      John Easton answered on 8 Nov 2024:

      No – it wasn’t an option. I also don’t think it’s necessary for you to get a job with computers. It might help, but it’s certainly not a requirement

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      Caroline Roche answered on 30 Nov 2024:

      I didn’t have it as an option for a grade but I did do a project subject that covered computing and other aspects just for information rather than an exam.

    • Photo: Lisa Hursell

      Lisa Hursell answered on 10 Dec 2024:

      It wasn’t an option for me, only ICT

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    Edward commented on :

    I did take computer science GCSE and it was monumentally boring. I actually fell asleep during the exam and didn’t do as well as I had hoped. HOWEVER, this was between 1998-1999 when GCSE computing questions contained things like ‘name 4 items of hardware you could find plugged into a library computer’.

    Clearly, things have moved on and my advice today would be that having some computing and programming skills are really useful so if you have doubts about a computer science GSCE, talk to your IT teacher and hopefully, they can tell you what you will study.
    Even an average knowledge of advanced features of MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc can be very helpful during employment. If you are in STEM, some python programming to write a basic program to demonstrate some science can be relaly helpful.