On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 11:06:10PM +0000, Arthur Figgis wrote:
On 20/01/2016 21:32, Roland Perry wrote:
The biggest problem was
getting the school to agree to let her drop General Studies (which was
virtually compulsory), but simply a way to easily increase a school's
league table results - however clearly cuts no ice with the major
universities.
In my day (mid-1990s) General Studies was compulsory at my school

In my day (early 90s) it was compulsory if you were only doing three
A-levels. I never asked, but I presume that the justification was that
the school's insurers didn't want a load of teenagers with loads of free
time goofing off and doing stupid ****.

when I enquired about not doing it - or at least not turning up to the
lessons, and just sitting the exam

There was an exam?

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