Cardiff Tutor Company is a tutoring service to help people who are taking their GCSE or GCSE equivalent exams. Maths and English GCSE or an equivalent qualification is needed for higher education and will help your chances with employment. Functional skills and GCSE Equivalency Tests are two of the most popular GCSE equivalents since they are flexible.
Functional skills maths and English have 5 levels but to gain the GCSE equivalent qualification, you need the last level which is level 2. If you are above the age of 19, you don’t fit the government’s criteria so you won’t get funding from them. This doesn’t mean you can’t take a functional skills course, you can, you have to sign up to the course as an independent learner. If you fit the government’s criteria, you are 19 or younger, you will be funded by them to take the functional skills course in college.
GCSE Equivalency Tests is a GCSE equivalent qualification that is helpful if you are looking at teacher training courses. They offer maths, science and English exams and MME is known as being a great provider for these exams.
There are other GCSE equivalents that can be used for employment and University such as NVQs and BTECs. Although there are other GCSE equivalent qualifications, functional skills is the most popular one out of them all. The full GCSE exams are better than the GCSE equivalents but they aren’t flexible due to only having two times during the year where the exams can be taken. Since GCSE exams aren’t convenient for most people, they opt for an equivalent exam such as functional skills.
The one to one sessions we provide will go over the exam topics and MME have other revision materials that are beneficial. You can book an online functional skills exam, but if you don’t want to sit it in your own home, you can book for the paper exam at your local testing centre. If you contact MME, they will book the exam for you.