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I did that O Level without actually doing the course. I paid £4.50 to sit the exam sight unseen, did the programming exercises and got a grade B. Just saw it
by Wildgoose 7y ago
I did that O Level without actually doing the course.
I paid £4.50 to sit the exam sight unseen, did the programming exercises and got a grade B.
Just saw it as a cheap and easy qualification. :-)
- UncleSlacky 7y agoWe were told not to bother with Computer Science O-levels, as nobody took any notice of them, at least for sixth-form admissions. As far as I could tell, they seemed to consist largely of binary maths anyway - far better to concentrate on getting better grades in Maths & Physics instead.
- Wildgoose 7y agoI was doing my A-Levels at the time, (Maths, Further Maths, Physics, plus the compulsory "General Studies"), prior to going to University to read "Computational Science". I remember not being impressed, (so you're right), but I was a working class kid who'd had it drummed into him that qualifications of any kind were a passport to a professional career.