general certificate of secondary education

1. 1.

   the basic level of a subject taken in school

   SynonymsGCSEO level

   Broadergrade

   England

Questions about general certificate of secondary education

What does general certificate of secondary education mean?

general certificate of secondary education means "the basic level of a subject taken in school".

What is another word for general certificate of secondary education?

Close synonyms include GCSE, O level. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is general certificate of secondary education a common word?

general certificate of secondary education is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.