Hi everybody, I was just talking to a cousin who is in high school, she wanted me to give her advice on taking the IGCSE, but I barely heard about it. I�ve looked for sme info online and apparently it�s a series of exams about different content subjects (math, literature, history, science.....). There are about 7 or 8 of these and they are quite expensive.... for what I�ve read I can�t really see any practical uses or applications for such certification... At least here in Argentina, when a job position requires some level of english, the only exams (representative of a level of knowledge) they take into account are the FCE, CAE, TOEFL... or they just make yo take an english test or have an interview in english.....
Then, for universities... here as long as you graduated high school, there isn�t really a fuss about grades nor qualifications in order to be accepted... you just pay the fee, or not, if it�s a public university. So really, an exam about high school subjects doesn�t make much sense.
So again.... is it really useful to take such exam???
PD: my cousin still has to take the prep courses, they�re part of the school syllabus... so she will be getting the knowldge, which is always useful... if she decides to take teh exam, she will only have to pay for it, the rest is up to the school....
