Are you going to work on those? 
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Yes - it won’t take long. Just been busy with bearded dragons and mock GCSEs.
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This little cutie:
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Of course! Don’t know what GCSE is eather 
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Exams his students are doing!
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It’s the equivalent of the Swedish grundskoleexamen.
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Not at 8 and 9 years old they’re not!
It’s what my eldest is doing! It stands for General Certificate of Secondary Education (or, as a character on Grange Hill called them when they were first introduced to replace the old O levels, ‘General Collapse of Secondary Education’).
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GCSEs… * shudders* you’d have to pay me a lot to go back to doing GCSEs again, I hated every second of it
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What age/grade are these at? I’m perpetually confused by other countries education systems because Germany’s is super complicated and I can never figure out what’s an equivalent to what
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The UK’s grades aren’t even in line with each other 
GCSE is the fourth year of high school; A level is fifth and sixth year. (Scotland is different. Having studied the Scottish system and taught the English one I’ve spent a lot of time explaining the differences
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Oh yeah that sounds complicated 
The German one mainly has several different types of school you can go to after primary school, and therefore a lot of different degrees you can graduate with, all enabling you to do different things, and it isn’t even entirely the same in all the different parts of Germany either lol
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Actually, the GCSE’s are sat in the fifth year of secondary - Y11. A levels are completed in sixth form or college Y12 and 13 (sixth and seventh year of secondary).
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Bloody hell there you go. I forget England has sixth form! A strange people to be sure!
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Looks at haggis, throwing logs, deep-fried mars bars and other stereotypes and squints…
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All perfectly normal, don’t know what you mean!
(With you on the deep fried mars bar, though. I have never understood that (though it’s not as common as you’d imagine, they’re mostly sold in touristy areas))
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1952: The Creeping Fog
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1952: A Thousand Tiny Wings
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My review of the short story The People’s Temple:
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1953: The Idiot’s Lantern:
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