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Does including O'levels on your CV give away your age
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A year before my 65th birthday I applied for a part-time job with a government agency and was asked to bring my O and A level certs plus details of any other qualifications to the interview. I was taken into a side room and asked if the O and A level documents were genuine. They'd never seen certificates where the results hadn't been graded and I'd to explain that when I sat them only passed or failed appeared against each subject. Felt my age that day but I did get the job.
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How odd. It must be an examining board quirk. All mine have the grades. As did my mother's, and she was in the first cohorts of students to take O and A levels. Her O levels were taken in 1953, and they were only introduced two years before that. A-C were considered passes. D-F were fails.A year before my 65th birthday I applied for a part-time job with a government agency and was asked to bring my O and A level certs plus details of any other qualifications to the interview. I was taken into a side room and asked if the O and A level documents were genuine. They'd never seen certificates where the results hadn't been graded and I'd to explain that when I sat them only passed or failed appeared against each subject. Felt my age that day but I did get the job.
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I'm sorry sangie595, I should have said that they were Scottish O and A levels under the now defunct Scottish Examination Board. The 'youngest' certificate I am sitting looking at is dated 1968 so grading must have started, at least in Scotland, after that.
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How odd. It must be an examining board quirk. All mine have the grades. As did my mother's, and she was in the first cohorts of students to take O and A levels. Her O levels were taken in 1953, and they were only introduced two years before that. A-C were considered passes. D-F were fails.
I took "O" levels in 1973. They were graded 1to 9. 1 to 6 was a pass, 7 to 9 was a fail.
For A levels, A to E was a pass, O was a fail but treated as an O Level pass, and I think F was a complete fail.
Only Use of English and General Studies were ungraded, simple pass or fail.0
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