#GCE O level

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“Well,” the hero sighed. “Evil never sleeps I guess.”

Based off the DTIYS from @turquoisemagpie before it… spiralled out of control. But hey, here’s Jackie! This really kicked me back into a JSE and art mood so it was fun :D

(And yes, the sign says “JACKSEPTICEYE”, why do you ask?)

The unfancy version (where it looks like a DTIYS)

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'As a nurse you could help the recovery of the mentally ill', nursing recruitment poster by Central Office of Information, England, 1950-1966

This poster was part of a drive to recruit mental health nurses and advertises jobs for those aged 18-45. It indicates that GCE ‘O’ levels (General Certificate of Education, now GCSEs) were not required. The poster states: ‘You could help the recovery of the mentally ill’, as was issued by Oakwood Hospital, in Maidstone, Kent. The image appears to be a clear attempt to promote mental health patients as ‘everyday’ people, with a well dressed patient being escorted by a young female nurse. The emphasis on recovery from mental illness highlights an attitude shift. Mental illness was no longer a lifelong affliction, but something one could recover from.

Oakwood Hospital was founded in 1833 as the Kent County Lunatic Asylum. It housed over 2,000 patients by 1948 (briefly before this poster was issued). Like many original 19th century asylums, Oakwood Hospital was closed in the 1990s.

Science Museum

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Guys, how good do you have to be in a language to be considered fluent?

Well, more to the point: would you consider me fluent in Chinese, or more specifically Mandarin? I got a B in Chinese GCE O-levels, my first job was in a Chinese-only workplace (they spoke a mix of Cantonese, Hokkien and Mandarin) but I had to communicate in broken mandarin and sometimes ended up using hand signals. I can more or less hold a conversation in it, though my responses tend to be just nodding and one-word answers. Also I speak Mandarin with a British accent (don't ask why, I don't have any British ancestry and I've never even been there).

My friends who speak it as a first language consider me not fluent but the ones who don't... Also consider me not fluent :( Mostly because I was worst in class back in secondary school (in my defense half those guys were first gen immigrants from mainland China)

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Pattie Boyd 1961-1962 (Elizabeth Arden, Cherry Marshall and Norman Parkinson)

I couldn’t find much detailed information about lovely Pattie from 1961-1962, so I decided to put together this long form post. Please, do let me know if I’m missing anything. Thanks!

- June 1961, Pattie leaves school with three GCE O Level passes and is living at home in Wimbledon, with her single mother and four siblings

- Late 1961, Pattie’s mother pulls some strings and gets her daughter a job at the Elizabeth Arden hair salon in London

“After school, I got a job at Elizabeth Arden in Bond Street, London - because I wasn’t qualified to do anything and my mum knew the CEO there.” - Pattie Boyd (December, 2022)

- In the new year, Pattie moves to London and begins working as a ‘shampoo girl’ / ‘trainee beautician’ on a small wage of £4.50 per week - which roughly translates to £97.53 as of 2023

“I thought: ‘I must get out, I must try and be independent’ - so I got a job and shared a flat with about five other girls.” - Pattie Boyd (December, 2022)

“I shampooed people’s hair and took their coats. I was a general dogsbody, but I must say that it was terribly glamorous because it was where I first saw fabulous magazines - like Vogue, Tatler and Harper’s Bazaar.” - Pattie Boyd (December, 2022)

“The job at Elizabeth Arden was deadly boring. I was training to be a beautician, but my heart wasn’t in it and I’m not sure I would have made the grade. Elizabeth Arden herself came in one day and berated me for my makeup. She didn’t like the black pencil under my eyes; it was not the ‘Elizabeth Arden’ look, she informed me.” - Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

- Early 1962, Pattie had been working at the salon for roughly two months, until a Cherry Marshall Model Agency staffer took a special interest in her look

“A client who worked for Honey magazine asked me if I’d ever thought of becoming a model.” - Pattie Boyd (December, 2022)

“Imagine my excitement when a client came into the salon one day and asked if I had ever thought of being a model. I said: ‘No, but I certainly could.’” - Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

- The following day, Pattie was scheduled for a test shoot

“When I arrived, she had arranged for her in-house photographer, Anthony Norris, to take some test shots of me. He had set up some lights in a little studio and she gave me a couple of outfits to wear - I remember a beret and having to look sultry, smoking Gitanes. [a French brand of unfiltered cigarettes] They were black and white, moody shots, with a bit of a Parisian feel.” - Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

- Anthony Norris sends Pattie along to a secretary at Cherry Marshall Model Agency and a personal meeting with Cherry Marshall herself is arranged - Pattie was signed to a modelling contract the very same day

“A successful model has just got to be strict with herself and lay off all fattening foods. That means no bread, butter, spaghetti or sweets! Watch out for ‘puppy fat spread’ - eat proper meals at regular times, with lots of lean meat and green vegetables.” - Pattie Boyd (April, 1965 - Letter from London)

“My fairy godmother phoned Cherry Marshall, who then ran one of the top model agencies and she said she was sending me to her. Anthony Norris went with me and told Cherry he thought she should take me on.” - Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“My secretary brought Pattie’s picture into me and told me Pattie was waiting outside. ‘I’ll see her’ I said - and there was Pattie, a shy 17-year-old who when she spoke, bubbles with impish charm. It would have been a mistake to change a thing about her. All we needed was to groom her rebellious hair and slim down her puppy fat. She started training immediately, the following Monday.” - Cherry Marshall, 1964

“She was shy until she started talking and then she bubbled over with enthusiasm, as she spoke of her ambition to be a model: ‘I know I’m a bit plump - but I can’t stop eating sweets!’ I said: ‘Pattie, from now on you cut out all sweets - and I want you to report on Monday at the school for training’. I wanted her rebellious hair groomed into a straight gleaming bob and she had to be taught how to apply photographic make-up. Nothing else should be changed. The name was right, the look was right and it would have been crazy to do anything to subdue her sparkling personality.” -  Cherry Marshall, 1978

- Pattie attends Cherry Marshall’s modelling school - graduating within three short months

“So that’s the advice that I’d pass on to all of you who dream of becoming models: train at a school that has proved itself - not just one of those places that give you a paper diploma and nothing else - and don’t try to sell yourself when you have qualified. Let your agent do that.” - Pattie Boyd (April, 1965 - Letter from London)

- Pattie attends test shoots and works to build her portfolio - unpaid

“I knew I had a winner - everyone in the office agreed with me and they immediately swung into action. New pictures were taken, photographers and magazines informed, casting agents bombarded, press alerted. Here, we told them with absolute confidence that Pattie Boyd was the girl for the swinging sixties.” - Cherry Marshall, 1978

“Finding an agency was easy; finding a job was the hard part.” - Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“We were too experienced to expect things to happen overnight, but we were impatient because Pattie was already seventeen and that wasn’t the youngest anymore. All we needed was to get one top photographer mad about her and she was made, but few of them would risk using an absolutely new girl on a job. They’d take test shots to find out what she was like and give her pictures for her portfolio, but no money. It was invaluable experience, but Pattie had to earn her living and we didn’t have much time.” -  Cherry Marshall, 1978

“My agent would phone me last thing in the afternoon and tell me my jobs for the next day and my diaries would be quite full. But not to begin with - I had to work quite hard, going around to photographer’s studios and showing them my portfolio.” - Pattie Boyd (December, 2022)

[Rayment Kirby, 1962]

“Everyday I would go out with a list of photographer’s names and addresses and trudge around with my portfolio, hoping they would like what they saw and use me on a job. And if one did, I would try very hard to get him to give me some prints at a low rate, so that I could add them to my portfolio. I must have travelled on every bus and tube in London and when I was out of money, I walked. My diary for those days is full of IOUs for the odd fiver.” - Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“Within three months her diary began to fill up and she (Pattie) was in constant demand.” -  Cherry Marshall, 1978

“If I had a job, I had a big, tall bag - no wheels in those days - with dark shoes, light-coloured shoes, all sorts of jewellery, wigs and hairpieces.” - Pattie Boyd (December, 2022)

“I was lucky. The trekking around worked and soon my diary was full of jobs. Modelling was fun. I loved trying on clothes and fiddling with my hair and makeup. We had to do it ourselves - there were no hair stylists or makeup artists and certainly no chauffeur-driven cars to ferry us around. We were not celebrities in the way that today’s top models are. For advertising jobs, we even had to bring our own accessories. I have my old appointment diaries about what I had to take to a shoot. Usually, it was light and dark court shoes, flatties, gloves, costume jewellery, hats or caps, boots, makeup, wigs and hair pieces. You could spot a model a mile off from the heavy bags that she was carrying.” - Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“I went on to do lots of lovely shoots, although I never enjoyed posing for Freeman’s catalogues. They’d book you in for three or four days in a row, which meant lots of money, but the clothes were hideous and far too big - they had to have clips on the back.” - Pattie Boyd (December, 2022)

“I rang Norman Parkinson, the king of them all - and asked if he’d see her. A model had to be really good before he could be approached, particularly as he was not impressed by an agent’s idea of who was photogenic. We knew that, superficially, Pattie had certain drawbacks - she was un-modelly in the accepted sense, her face was too round and she had a gap in her front teeth. She came back to us in tears, eyes swimming with disappointment, all set to give up. She finally blurted out: ‘He asked me if it’s fashionable these days to look like a rabbit!’” -  Cherry Marshall, 1978

“One day I went to see the great Norman Parkinson. He looked at my book, then looked at me and said: ‘Come back when you’ve learned how to do your hair and makeup properly’ I felt so humiliated.” - Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight

“Seeing myself in magazines was so exciting. I couldn’t wait to show my mother and she was totally amazed, saying: ‘How on earth did you do that?’ - she had no idea that I’d been trampling the streets trying to get jobs and hopping on buses and trains to persuade photographers to take pictures of me.” - Pattie Boyd (December, 2022)

- Late 1962, Pattie began working for Honey magazine, which led to many other opportunities...

I will try to make a Pattie Boyd 1963-1964 long post soon! :)

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Hi! This is kind of random but I've been googling around and haven't been able to figure it out.... Do you know what level of education Ringo had? I know John had some college, and I *believe* George and Paul would have had something below or equal to a high school equivalency, but I can't find any solid info on Ringo. Thanks!

Hi anon!

So, I consulted my copy of Tune In for this and here's a basic rundown. For more details I'd recommend you check the book itself – it's very well indexed and there are epubs knocking about + a version on the archive.

Ringo was sick for more than an entire year around the age of 7-8 due to a terrible case of appendicitis, which resulted in life-threatening infections that put him into a coma for weeks and kept him bed-ridden for months. This meant he fell extremely behind in school, missing out on learning how to read and write. He ended up picking up those skills because a family friend helped tutor him but he couldn't fully catch up. He ended up in a secondary school class, which basically deemed him and his classmates hopeless for anything but manual labor and ended up quitting school at 15, the moment he was no longer required to. He'd also missed two years of school again due to tuberculosis.

After this, he began collecting unemployment benefits in between doing several smaller jobs like working on ships and in the railways, before beginning an apprenticeship at a factory to become an equipment manufacturer.

Also, I didn't recheck this, but IIRC George didn't directly have a high school equivalent* because I think he dropped out before finishing classes at the Institute (I actually can't recall if George sat his O-Levels, but I'm relatively confident he didn't do any A-Levels like Paul did. In any case I think he started doing an apprenticeship as an electrician when he was about 15.)

*Based on your wording I'm guessing you're American, but my understanding (and Brits with more knowledge than me are welcome to interject) is O-Levels/GCEs are akin to mandatory final exams for all British students, whereas A-Levels are the continued secondary education you do to get into universities. In general, I think the US public education system does not make the distinction between "finished mandatory school" and "university-eligible". Although, one might note that John did not in fact pass his O-Levels (or do A-Levels for that matter) but was recommended for the Liverpool College of Art, which I imagine had its own admission system, by his teachers who wanted to make sure he had prospects (off-topic always fascinated by how much faith in his person John seemed to command). I also think Paul did take university/college classes, but did not end up doing any of his first year exams.

EDIT: sorry I think I mixed stuff up. It seems like Paul would have gotten into teaching college but ended up going to Hamburg instead.

[suiana]

terrorising people with math is fun 😊

this looks a little too much like the GCE O level practice paper™ that i did last year

how dare you bring up bad memories

jail

[robthepensioner]

Controversial sign in Bispham, Blackpool. Through my GCE "O" Level in English Literaature, I know that Othello was a Moor, and he is probably dead by now.

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#Programming

Some people may be surprised that I learned programming in high school (at President’s College in Guyana, a country in South America and member of the CARIbbean COMmunity). Computer Studies was one subject/course at the school. I had an expatriate teacher who was very knowledgeable. He taught us a lot. However, I found some of the classes to be boring. I actually fell asleep in some classes (partly because the classes were in the afternoon - after lunch). For the GCE examination, I completed a Pascal program to solve simultaneous equations. I chose that topic because I had recently learned to solve simultaneous equations in Math class. I worked really hard on that program. My teacher provided really good guidance. I remember the euphoria I experienced when I got the program to run/compile and work. I also recall the down feeling I experienced when a classmate asked what happens when a user enters an incorrect character/entry. I tried it and the program crashed. I then tried to make the program provide messages when that occurred.

My GCE O-Level certificate shows that I wrote the Computing Studies exam (and, of course, completed the required project). To see the certificate, click/select the statistics or economicsandIT tag.

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all these ppl in ur asks talking about GCE O Levels... im taking mine this year and woah. u have not seen the last section of the chemistry paper! for the last section you get to choose out of 2 questions where they bombard u with information and usually it’s two different topics but they could come out with the same topics for both questions which means if you didnt study for that topic you’re SCREWED for the last section. 😊

what in the motherfuck

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“Better late than never” I was the black sheep of my family. I was the odd one. I was also a victim of physical and emotional abuse from my father. This dynamic of being both a victim and the black sheep at the same time furthered any belief I had regarding the abuse being my fault. Not only was I being abused, but all of these other things were being said and done to me so there had to be something wrong with me. The shame I felt was immense, which led to a lot of self-hatred and mental health issues as a result. I wasted 12 years of my life battling with drugs, mental health and failed relationships. During my journey to recovery, I am grateful to meet friends who have helped me through my darkest time especially my prison counsellor. She never gave up hope on me, even I tried many ways to push her away. She said “ Please Don’t Give Up On Yourself Because Of What Someone Else Did To You”. It hit me hard. I imagined that someday things would be different. Fast forward to 5 years later I am standing at my own graduation and it felt unreal. I failed every subject staying back 2 years during my 2nd year in high school, my teachers said that I am hopeless, stupid, I dropped out of school with just a primary school leaving examination cert (PSLE) At 18 I failed GCE N-Level, At 21 I failed GCE O-Level, At 29 I took my Diploma in Psychology, At 30 I finally graduated!! With what I have achieve today, I give thanks to my loving girlfriend for spending many hours tutoring me mathematics , correcting my English and a lot of scolding. Rui Juan Jie Jie for reading my essays, giving me lots of advice correcting my mistakes. And last but not least my mom for her encouragement. For those who are still struggling, Depression is awful – and when it hits, you will feel useless, exhausted, and utterly alone – but please don’t believe the lie that you have to stay in that space. Please don’t believe the lie that keeps you standing in the dark. Please don’t believe that you’re not worthy of the hands that want to help, the shoulders that invite you to lean on them, and the ones who see you and still love you, even when you’ve lost sight of that yourself. (at The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ckp9rOxvomGiwhnX6J-Ewu4QRrbzDx8JMQN_QY0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Northwest University Sokoto Notice: O' Level Result Upload for 2024/2025

Important Notice for Northwest University Sokoto Candidates: O’ Level Result Upload for 2024/2025 Academic Session Northwest University Sokoto (NWUS) wishes to inform All candidates that they are urgently required to upload their O’ Level results, including NECO, WAEC, NBAIS, GCE, or NABTEB, to the JAMB portal through their CAPS (Central Admission Processing System) account. Deadline for O’ Level…

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MOE Pt. 2: My First Day at Admiralty Secondary School (Mr. Stanley? Mr. Seet?! Teacher Stanley?!)

My alarm rang at 5.30am yet again. At this point, I only had 4 hours of sleep during the night. But who could sleep when it was going to be the first day at a brand new environment and a brand new job?

The imposter syndrome set in again the moment I walked through the gates.

Students in uniform were trailing in, their faces full of reluctance.

I remember how that felt like. I was never the type to enjoy school. Rather, I disliked it and felt restricted by it. Stepping onto the school grounds as an adult (I hope) felt oddly liberating. Students bowed their head to greet me as they walked past and I hardly knew how to react. Half of me still thought I was a teenager just like them, but I tried my best to smile and greeted them a very good morning - quickly settling into my role as the new music teacher.

But of course, I couldn't settle into the role without meeting my mentor first!

The instructions given to me was to wait for my mentor outside her classroom. Her form class was a current Secondary 4 Express level of students. As you all know, I have a tendency to blow up everything in my head, so when I heard "Secondary 4 Express" I thought to myself "Oh boy, this is going to be fun..."

They were one of the oldest kids in school at the perfect age for teenage angst, how bad could it be?

Okay, to be honest... it wasn't that bad. Half of them were just half asleep and disinterested.

However, all that changed when I finished my self-introduction and my mentor (aka their form teacher), directed the class to quiz me on anything they wish to know about me. I was stunned!

"Mr. Stanley, do you play video games?"

"Mr. Stanley, do you do your eyebrows? They look very neat."

"Mr. Stanley, what skincare do you use? Why is your skin so glowy?"

I was not prepared for those kind of questions in front of the whole class - not even the MOE training prior to this prepared me for it!

As someone with an overthinking personality, this was the one time my overthinking helped me. I was quick on my feet to dissolve the situation before questions got too personal. Teenagers are often curious and when they see someone new in the classroom, I assumed they wanted to "capture" the new teacher's personality and see how much they can push.

"Yes, I do play games in my spare time. But I won't tell you which one or else you might try to play with me."

"Yes, I do trim my brows. It's important to keep a professional image when you're out in the industry."

"I apply moisturizer because my skin gets dry."

I answered all the questions in a matter-of-fact tone and eventually, they realized they couldn't probe anymore personal matters out of me, so they gave up. Victory!

To be honest, I was panicking on the inside. Being interrogated in front of the classroom by a bunch of teenagers was not on my agenda for my first day, but I would say I handled that very professionally and my mentor did not need to step in.

Anyways, shortly after, my mentor asked if I wanted to give some encouraging words to her students since they are supposed to sit for their GCE O levels this year.

I borrowed her marker and gave a simple talk on it's not about "I cannot do it" but rather, it's "I cannot do it yet." (Growth Mindset)

That was what I was writing on the whiteboard in the picture above!

I left that classroom that morning with a sense of accomplishment, excited for the afternoon ahead.

I finally had time to sit down after a busy day walking around the staff room, introducing myself to the teachers and the department heads. Oh, and, the hash brown above was a treat from my mentor after the busy morning - there is a glimpse of my schedule on the desk.

Funnily enough, at this point, I felt like a broken record all morning. "Hi! Nice to meet you, I'm Stanley, the new music teaching assistant!" for about a hundred times, asking the teachers what they teach, how's their day been, etc - walking to every desk and saying hello.

The reason why I decided to do that, even though it may come across as too enthusiatic, is because I needed to quickly know faces and have a sense of the culture at this school that I am posted in.

I quickly got a sense of where I should not misstep in terms of office politics, and which teachers were more willing to assist me and which were the ones who'd rather be left alone.

For the sake of privacy, I will address her as Teacher W. Teacher W immediately welcomed me when I did my rounds around school and I found out she was a literature teacher. Even though she was not my mentor for this internship, she welcomed me to sit in her classes whenever I liked and I was excited to get a chance to observe a class outside of my assigned subject!

One problem, though - was that now my schedule was really packed. I was running from class to class for the rest of the day because I had to fulfill my duties at my mentor's music period and join Teacher W at hers shortly after. I'm still glad I took up the opportunity. Teacher W's class was a whole different ballgame and offered me a new set of challenges that I will describe in the next post.