GCSE sailing assesment

One interesting point is about the level of debt it's assumed you leave with ...

These days no-one bats an eyelid at young people racking up 20k of student debt, then the cycle of living off other peoples money is learnt sub-20 years old and then it goes on ... perhaps this is why we are in the mess we are in now.

When I was at Uni no-one had debt, of if they did it was just a maxed out overdraft of say £500.

That said when we were at uni everyone lived within their means, very few people hard cars or boats, there were no mobile phones or iPods and we drank homebrew and cheap vodka before going out as a money saving exercise.

Debt is pretty much unavoidable if you go to uni now.  Yes, we do live in a culture of debt, buy now pay later, loans etc, but about £8000 pa before you even think about beer money, its pretty hard not to run into debt.  Then you have to add in; course materials, transport and basic food.  Course materials vary depending on your course, but mine were £300 pa - [2 yrs ago.  Only brought the core books, all of which were second hand.]  My flatmate's are alot more.  Probably in the £1000+ range.

Anyway, if I could've done sailing as part of my GCSEs, I would've done it in a heartbeat.  At least one of them would be enjoyable.  If you go onto further and higher education, and as long as you pass Maths and English, no one cares what you did at GCSE.  I vaguely remember what I did, but on my CV I just list - GCSEs, including Maths and English passes.  Or something to that affect.

Good luck and enjoy yourself.

Blimey tt, where did you go to uni....4pm!

I was lucky enough to have gone when there were still grants, even so it wasn't much, many ended up in debt but that was largely the 2 foreign holidays a year and running a car etc.

I lived in London for 6 years with no money from parents and not a penny of overdraft. Lived in damp flats in Hackney, drove cheap motoerbikes, worked in the holidays, bought clothes in Oxfam shops and ate cheap crap...but eeee by gum it did me good....

Joking aside, its not hard to keep the debt down with a bit of common sense. Just work hard and live within your means. It's not forever after all.

What??

 If your so sure of that TELL THE EXAMINERS......

.....last year the grade boundries for Drama were;

A* 98%

A 92%

B 85%

C 76%

Do you want the grade boundries for other subjects aswell or is that ok?