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GCSE

GCSE is the initialism of General Certificate of Secondary Education.

Meaning of General Certificate of Secondary Education

Proper noun

General Certificate of Secondary Education

  1. A British qualification taken by secondary school students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
    • The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) replaced O-levels and CSEs.

Forms of GCSE

pluralGCSEs

Questions about GCSE

What is GCSE the initialism of?
GCSE is the initialism of General Certificate of Secondary Education.

Words near GCSE in the dictionary

  1. GCR
  2. GCRN
  3. gcs
  4. GCSB
  5. GCSD
  6. GCSE
  7. GCSEs
  8. GCSI
  9. GCSIs
  10. GCT
  11. GCTA

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Adapted from Wiktionary: GCSE (page history and authors); General Certificate of Secondary Education (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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