Gcses For Adults

[Blueboy14]

Hi I'm 35 and left school with no qualifications so i have deciced to get my life in order! I'm looking at doing GCSEs in Maths and English I currently work in a bar so work nights I'm hoping to find a better job but without GCSEs it's hard! Can anyone recommend the best way to study for my GCSEs I was looking at learndirect but I have read that there GCSE courses are not the real GCSE so won't be recognised as one. Any information and advice on how to gain GCSEs would be great! Also dose anyone know how long it would take to study for a GCSE? As I'm 35 and time is not on my side!

[mikey4444]

Blue...this years College enrolment is just about to start.

I am not sure about GCSEs but O Levels used to be easy to study at evening classes. Your job, of course, may not make that very attractive, but I would still approach my local Tech ( or whatever they are called nowadays ! )

[mikey4444]

Is this any good ? :::::

https://www.ool.co.uk/gcse/?gclid=Cj0KEQjwranNBRDh3uGN5ojp9o8BEiQASu908HCpacElP3j5h6ovh9T3bRVhTbJ4z-T51tdeIIqLjUkaAiB38P8HAQ

[Mamyalynne]

I wish you well Blueboy - did any of the replies to this same question help in any way?

Have you made inroads locally?

[Blueboy14]

I'm going to give my local collage a call on mbday to see what classes they run ideally I could do with studying from home so I can fit it around working.

[mikey4444]

Bluey....don't forget to let us know how you got on........we love feedback here on AB, and it might help someone else as well !

[derekpara]

Bluey.

Mamyalynne has beaten me to it. We've answered this before. Have you done anything about it yet ?

[Peter Pedant]

I am not sure if you can really learn either Maths or English from a book and so I think LearnDirect is unsuitable

As a learner myself - I did evening classes but the possibility would be to do a day in college - the further difficulty I am afraid is that as a 35 y old you may not be allowed to join under 20 y olds
( my seventy y o brother in Somerset commented 'oh we do!")

but as Mikey said Bloob - enrolment is just about to start

they are also great for advice so you might just call in

There were two over sixties inc me in my class last year

[Blueboy14]

I'm going to give my local collage a call on Monday to see what courses they do if they are not suitable then I will have to look online

[sapelesam]

Blueboy 14, time is definitely on your side, your are a youngster and congratulations on your ambition. I got my degree, Open University when I was 58 and have never regretted it for one second.

[Blueboy14]

Thank you I got in my head that it was to late and I had wasted all my young years but I'm over that now!

[Blueboy14]

Hi all just an update I'm off the my local collage later to enrol on a GCSE course due to working and course times I can only enrol on one I think I'm going to do English and maybe look at doing maths from home as I think out of the two maths would be more manageable from home

[Mamyalynne]

Well done, good luck.