General Certificate of Secondary Education

High school is the transition between middle school and college, thus it is a significant point in a student's’ academic career. It is a time where students have to use more effort and new habits are set, so skills like organization will be crucial in college. Looking back, I can reflect on my high school years and conclude there are various things one should yield for consideration. Therefore, there are a few recommendations that I can suggest to someone starting their high school career.…

Impacts Undocumented students repeatedly run into barriers when trying to obtain higher education. Some complications include finding a higher education facility that doesn’t bar undocumented students from being accepted. Even if undocumented students are successfully granted admission into a college or university, they are soon faced with financial barriers like a requirement that they pay out of state tuition despite being in their state of residence. On top of the out of state tuition,…

David H. Freedman, who wrote, “The war on stupid people” discusses how our society needs to figure out a way to “stop glorifying intelligence” since smart people are now taking over the workforce. He wants to even the playing field so the less intelligent can land a great job, but unfortunately the hiring process has a “fetishization on IQ.” So, we are “freezing out” the less educated, leaving them with the lower paying jobs. Freedman establishes some credibility with his research, “National…

Are college students being lied to? As a child I had always thought that if I wanted to be someone in life than college was not optional. Even though college was always a priority for me I struggled with the idea that I had to do whatever I had to do to get into college so that I could earn fast money by doing less work. Through my high school years, I was so focused on taking classes that would lead me towards college acceptance because I believed I would earn a lot of money with a good career…

experience there is not a need to waste the time the effort and the money. People want to have a career that they thoroughly enjoy and love to do, not be forced into college and then pushed into a job they don’t want. The key to life is not a college education. It is happiness, college doesn’t always have to be the goal that is looked up to by everybody. One can simply have “framework and a…

There are many similarities and differences between education in Chile and the United States. These defining factors help distinguish between education in the contrasting countries. Levels of Education are somewhat different in Chile than they are in the U.S. In the United States, children go to preschool or kindergarten when they are anywhere between the ages 3-5. After kindergarten, kids go to elementary school, which is grades 1-5. In sixth grade, kids are considered to be in junior high…

A college education is necessary in our culture in order to be “successful”. In today’s economy, it has become difficult to provide financial aid to each student. Thus, many people think if state college free of tuition should be granted to current or future students whose household has a combined income of less than $125,000. I agree with the Governer’s Cuomo bill for providing free tuition to New York State public universities because students will focus more on their students and be…

I don't know what i'm going to do after high school and truly i do not care. I think it is pointless and useless for our high school to make us think in the future when most of us our needing to live in the present. Say I do go to college i don't know if i need the money or not anything can happen this school needs to stop trying to make us live in the future but help us focus on the present. So the answer to this question and this whole essay is i don't know minds always change nothing stays…

a student for life and result in mistakes. When I was in the eighth grade, I had to choose a learning path for my high school education. That…

Being the co-founder of a club is a challenge that can be overcomed with strong resilience skills and the desire to pursue a clear goal. When my partner and I were thinking about starting something new, we focused on things that we either cared about or enjoyed doing. Since we were both undocumented, I brought up the idea of creating a club that would unite students together regardless of their citizenship status. As a result, we created the Latinos United Club. In my mind I pictured a club that…