Senior Cambridge
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The Senior Cambridge examinations were General Certificate of Education
examinations held in Pakistan
, Malaysia, Singapore
, India
, and Jamaica
. They were preceded by the Junior Cambridge and Preliminary Cambridge examinations.
to offer the Senior Cambridge examination was the Cambridge School at Daryaganj. In the 1960s, the Senior Cambridge examinations were largely superseded by the Indian Council of Secondary Education (ICSE) examinations.
ese occupation of Malaysia in World War II
, pupils who sat their Senior Cambridge examinations at some schools in 1941 had to wait until 1946 to learn their results.
General Certificate of Education
The General Certificate of Education or GCE is an academic qualification that examination boards in the United Kingdom and a few of the Commonwealth countries, notably Sri Lanka, confer to students. The GCE traditionally comprised two levels: the Ordinary Level and the Advanced Level...
examinations held in Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
, Malaysia, Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, and Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
. They were preceded by the Junior Cambridge and Preliminary Cambridge examinations.
India
The first school in DelhiDelhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
to offer the Senior Cambridge examination was the Cambridge School at Daryaganj. In the 1960s, the Senior Cambridge examinations were largely superseded by the Indian Council of Secondary Education (ICSE) examinations.
Malaysia
During the JapanJapan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese occupation of Malaysia in World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, pupils who sat their Senior Cambridge examinations at some schools in 1941 had to wait until 1946 to learn their results.
Pakistan
At its independence from British India in 1947, Pakistan inherited a number of schools that offered Senior Cambridge examinations. Since then, the number of schools with a Senior Cambridge curriculum expanded greatly, and Cambridge schools are prominent among the premier educational institutions of Pakistan.Textbooks
At the Victoria Institution in 1933, the following list of school textbooks was issued to pupils preparing to study for the Senior Cambridge examinations:- New School Arithmetic
- Algebra, Baker and Bourne
- Geometry Parts I - VI
- Logarithm Tables
- English Exercises, Henry Watson FowlerHenry Watson FowlerHenry Watson Fowler was an English schoolmaster, lexicographer and commentator on the usage of the English language...
- Expansion of the British Empire
- Historical Atlas
- Essentials of World Geography
- Geography, BrookeBrooke- Places :* Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas* Brooke, Virginia* Brooke * Brooke Bond, a tea company* Brooke, Norfolk, England* Brooke, Rutland, England* Brooke's Point, Palawan, Philippines-People with the surname Brooke:...
- General Course in Hygiene
- Contouring and Map-Reading, WallisWallis- Places :* Valais, a Swiss canton with the German name "Wallis"* Walliswil bei Niederbipp* Walliswil bei Wangen* Wallis Islands- Others :* Wallis , a British clothing retailer* Wallis Theatres, an Australian cinema franchise- See also :...
- St Matthew
- King's I
- She Stoops to Conquer, GoldsmithGoldsmithA goldsmith is a metalworker who specializes in working with gold and other precious metals. Since ancient times the techniques of a goldsmith have evolved very little in order to produce items of jewelry of quality standards. In modern times actual goldsmiths are rare...
- Essay on Sir William Temple, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron MacaulayThomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron MacaulayThomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay PC was a British poet, historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer, and on British history...
- "Q" Poison Island