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Doudi, what a jumble!!
I know someone else has written about this, but Edexcel and Cambridge set the exam papers. Cambridge is generally recognised as better. EDexel are quite new to the game and offer what we know as NVQ´s as well. These are vocational qualifications, not exams but work based.
You take GCSE´s age 16 (any number up to about 12 is you are brainy) and there is not real pass level. But C or above is recognised to be pass for us old fashioned ones!
You take AS level age 17 (3 or 4, even 5 if you are clever) again C or above is recognised as pass. These have only been around for a few years, 3 or 4 I think.
You take A levels age 18 (3 or 4) and often follow on from AS level. You need A levels to get to uni and to get to a good one you need at least 22 points from those A levels.
Thx so much Libralady 
Whoa , you guys got it easy over there!! U know here , if u choose to take GCSE´s its really hard, and your goal has to be like *´s in evrything cause they only take 10% into egyptian colleges, thats why most of us go to private colleges, especially this year where thye put a max on the no of AL´s u can take, (2 only) mostly people take a lot more than that, the maximum u can get is 116 % (BTw its real easy to get over 100 %)
Yeah and i know that edexcel is waay easier, but truth is its better in math, better than cambridge, Especially 4 ppl considering takeing MAth Al , cause it really lays out the base for it, while cambridge just makes everything real complicated.
You know in Egypt its real hard to get high grades , cause kids here are REAAAAAAAAAL smart and RAElly care about studying, Egypt has the second highest IGCSE curve in the world after India!!!!!!!!
Here, really i swear , we have the ebst teachers in all of the middle east! WE got a couple of foreign students attending the revisions with us(our teachers, outside of school, cause teachers take us revisions outside of school), from China and other weird asian countries, but we got LOADS of students from the gulf. Its pretty cool though 
ANYWAY! Thx for explaining and thanks 4 ur time 
Just wanted to get it all cleared , and like know how the makers of the system apply it themselves!!!!!
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