Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank. The General Certificate of Secondary Education or the GCSE examinations for (26)_____ are the standard school-leaver qualifications taken by (27)_____ all UK students in the May and June following their 16th birthday. If you come to a UK (28)_____ school before you (29)_____ the age of 16, you will study towards GCSE examinations in up to 12 subjects. Some subjects are compulsory, including English arid mathematics, and you ...

Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank. The General Certificate of Secondary Education or the GCSE examinations for (26)_____ are the standard school-leaver qualifications taken by (27)_____ all UK students in the May and June following their 16th birthday. If you come to a UK (28)_____ school before you (29)_____ the age of 16, you will study towards GCSE examinations in up to 12 subjects. Some subjects are compulsory, including English arid mathematics, and you can select (30) _____, such as music, drama, geography and history from a series of options. GCSEs provide a good all-round education (31)_____ you can build on at college and eventually at university. AS- and A-levels are taken after GCSEs. They are the UK qualifications most (32)_____ accepted for entry to university and are available in subjects from the humanities, arts, sciences and social sciences as well as in (33)_____ subjects such as engineering, and leisure and tourism. You can study up to four subjects at (34)_____ same time for two years, (35)_____ AS-level examinations at the end of your first year (called the lower-sixth) and A-level qualifications at the end of your second year (called the upper-sixth). The General Certificate of Secondary Education or the GCSEexaminations for (26) _____

The General Certificate of Secondary Education or the GCSE examinations for (26)_____ are the standard school-leaver