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  2. GCSE - Wikipedia

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    The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is an academic qualification in a range of subjects taken in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, having been introduced in September 1986 and its first exams taken in 1988. State schools in Scotland use the Scottish Qualifications Certificate instead. However, private schools in Scotland ...

  3. Academic grading in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    There are two concurrent GCSE grading systems. In England, GCSEs are graded numerically from 1 (lowest) to 9 (highest), with a 4 being considered a passing grade. For the GCSE English Language Spoken Language component students receive either a Pass, Merit, Distinction or Unclassified.

  4. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    List of commonly misused English words. This is a list of English words that are thought to be commonly misused. It is meant to include only words whose misuse is deprecated by most usage writers, editors, and professional grammarians defining the norms of Standard English. It is possible that some of the meanings marked non-standard may pass ...

  5. Language education in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Language education in England up to the age of 19 is provided in the National Curriculum by the Department for Education, which was established in 2010. The National Curriculum for languages aims to ensure that all pupils: understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic sources.

  6. International General Certificate of Secondary Education

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    The International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) is an English language based secondary qualification similar to the GCSE and is recognised in the United Kingdom as being equivalent to the GCSE for the purposes of recognising prior attainment. [1] It was developed by Cambridge Assessment International Education.

  7. General Certificate of Education - Wikipedia

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    The General Certificate of Education (GCE) is a subject-specific family of academic qualifications used in awarding bodies in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Crown dependencies and a few Commonwealth countries. For some time, the Scottish education system has been different from those in the other countries of the United Kingdom.

  8. BBC Bitesize - Wikipedia

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    URL. bbc.co.uk /bitesize. Launched. 1998. Current status. Active. BBC Bitesize, [1] also abbreviated to Bitesize, is the BBC 's free online study support resource for school-age pupils in the United Kingdom. It is designed to aid pupils in both schoolwork and, for older pupils, exams. [2]

  9. Stylistic device - Wikipedia

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    The easiest stylistic device to identify is a simile, signaled by the use of the words "like" or "as". A simile is a comparison used to attract the reader's attention and describe something in descriptive terms. Example: "From up here on the fourteenth floor, my brother Charley looks like an insect scurrying among other insects."