Actually I did four-and-a-half
I was the second year group to go through the (slightly ridiculous) AS/A2 system, so I've also got a B in AS-level Critical Thinking. They made everyone do an extra AS in their second year, you see, and I was warned that the popular General Studies option was deemed by all universities and potential employers to be "fucking useless."
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 18 Aug 2011, 11:22, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

No more useless than "Critical Thinking", I'm sure
What the hell is it, anyway?
( Kroney, Thu 18 Aug 2011, 11:24, Reply)

I'm still not sure myself. As far as I could tell it seemed to be a course of how to argue logically
Although even the Philosophy teacher who taught us described it as "little more than mental masturbation."
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 18 Aug 2011, 11:26, Reply)

I find it strange that so many people of my age or older did 4 or more A levels
even the people who probably could or would have wanted to do so at my school weren't give the option as far as I know.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 18 Aug 2011, 11:30, Reply)

To be honest, even though it seems to be of great importance when you're that age
By the time you get to university, it doesn't make a blind bit of difference.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 18 Aug 2011, 11:33, Reply)

Unless you're doing something like Vipros
once you've been working for a while, a degree means jack shit too.
( Kroney, Thu 18 Aug 2011, 11:54, Reply)

So it was a qualification in "not being an imbecile", then?
Surprisingly, I can see how that would be necessary.
( Kroney, Thu 18 Aug 2011, 11:33, Reply)

Yes. In hindsight, I should have worked a lot harder at it.

(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 18 Aug 2011, 11:34, Reply)

I am an expert at it.
It involves criticising everything.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 18 Aug 2011, 11:32, Reply)