How to find what exam boards have my gcse grades?
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I'm somewhat surprised at this, as I'd have thought that while they not have records of the exams themselves, most schools tend to stay with the same group for some time.
For example, I know all of my GSCE's were with midland examining group, but my A levels were spread across 3 different groups, largely due to perceptions as too which group did the best exam.
More productively - If you remember which subjects you took, you should be able to ask friends/acquaintances of yours to look at their certificates and tell you the board; they are very unlikely to be different groups for different people in the same year.
For example, I know all of my GSCE's were with midland examining group, but my A levels were spread across 3 different groups, largely due to perceptions as too which group did the best exam.
More productively - If you remember which subjects you took, you should be able to ask friends/acquaintances of yours to look at their certificates and tell you the board; they are very unlikely to be different groups for different people in the same year.
A lot of places now demand certificates - my wife had to take her degree cert to an interview - complete with its frame from her parents' front room wall 
Ludicrous of course.
Do you not have the certificates / result transcripts somewhere? My folks kept them altogether for years and they're all in my loft now.
You could also email the board and ask if you are on the records. Bear in mind that a lot of them have changed their names/been absorbed. My school in the Midlands did a really strange mixture of MEG, JMB, NEA, O&C and God alone knows what else in the early 90s.
Edited - AQA contains a lot of the old exam boards (JMB & NEA) and you can contact them for old results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AQA )
Ludicrous of course.Do you not have the certificates / result transcripts somewhere? My folks kept them altogether for years and they're all in my loft now.
You could also email the board and ask if you are on the records. Bear in mind that a lot of them have changed their names/been absorbed. My school in the Midlands did a really strange mixture of MEG, JMB, NEA, O&C and God alone knows what else in the early 90s.
Edited - AQA contains a lot of the old exam boards (JMB & NEA) and you can contact them for old results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AQA )
Edited by NiceCupOfTea on Thursday 13th February 20:21
You need to contact the exam boards that are around now. They took over the old ones. So AQA, Pearson (edexcel), OCR, WJEC. They will need what info you can give eg you did GCSE in summer of 1988 etc at which school. You gave to pay for it I believe.
Eg
https://www.aqa.org.uk/contact-us/past-results-and...
Eg
https://www.aqa.org.uk/contact-us/past-results-and...
jdw100 said:
Francois de La Rochefoucauld said:
More pertinently what sort of outfit wants your GCSE results from 30 years ago.!
Indeed. What use would they be after 30 years?'well you only got a C in maths so we don't feel you are right for the company..'
sparks_190e said:
I can't remember what year I took my GCSE's or even what my results were, and I'm only 33! Literally no one has ever asked me about them.
and yet I can remember mine, when I took them and where I took them! No one has asked me for them in a job interview but I suspect they were used a a filtering tool for some of the grad jobs I applied for in the mid 90'sGassing Station | Jobs & Employment Matters | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff