General Certificate of Secondary Education

Quality:

General Certificate of Secondary Education - British public examinations, generally taken aged 16. Article “General Certificate of Secondary Education” in Simple English Wikipedia has 21.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 12 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

In June 2026 the article “General Certificate of Secondary Education” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (3379^th place) and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “General Certificate of Secondary Education”, its content was written by 54 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2407^th place) and edited by 997 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 27 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3066 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #32 in February 2012
• Global: #5622 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #47 in January 2011
• Global: #10131 in August 2015

There are 16 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) GCSE		74.6214
2	Chinese (zh) 中等教育普通證書		43.7575
3	German (de) General Certificate of Secondary Education		31.4789
4	Simple English (simple) General Certificate of Secondary Education		21.6947
5	French (fr) General Certificate of Secondary Education		19.7557
6	Japanese (ja) GCSE		17.8258
7	Turkish (tr) General Certificate of Secondary Education		17.1327
8	Vietnamese (vi) GCSE		15.0247
9	Malay (ms) General Certificate of Secondary Education		14.4948
10	Portuguese (pt) General Certificate of Secondary Education		5.7904

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) GCSE		10 712 168
2	German (de) General Certificate of Secondary Education		487 625
3	Simple English (simple) General Certificate of Secondary Education		451 305
4	French (fr) General Certificate of Secondary Education		340 578
5	Spanish (es) Certificado General de Educación Secundaria (GCSE) (Reino Unido)		221 896
6	Polish (pl) GCSE		154 995
7	Chinese (zh) 中等教育普通證書		142 541
8	Portuguese (pt) General Certificate of Secondary Education		36 984
9	Japanese (ja) GCSE		20 704
10	Indonesian (id) General Certificate of Secondary Education		19 797

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) GCSE		20 344
2	German (de) General Certificate of Secondary Education		670
3	French (fr) General Certificate of Secondary Education		580
4	Chinese (zh) 中等教育普通證書		471
5	Japanese (ja) GCSE		278
6	Simple English (simple) General Certificate of Secondary Education		269
7	Spanish (es) Certificado General de Educación Secundaria (GCSE) (Reino Unido)		229
8	Polish (pl) GCSE		170
9	Dutch (nl) General Certificate of Secondary Education		89
10	Portuguese (pt) General Certificate of Secondary Education		71

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) GCSE		791
2	Simple English (simple) General Certificate of Secondary Education		54
3	German (de) General Certificate of Secondary Education		39
4	French (fr) General Certificate of Secondary Education		32
5	Chinese (zh) 中等教育普通證書		21
6	Spanish (es) Certificado General de Educación Secundaria (GCSE) (Reino Unido)		15
7	Polish (pl) GCSE		11
8	Persian (fa) گواهی عمومی آموزش ثانوی		8
9	Portuguese (pt) General Certificate of Secondary Education		6
10	Dutch (nl) General Certificate of Secondary Education		4

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) GCSE		9
2	German (de) General Certificate of Secondary Education		1
3	Simple English (simple) General Certificate of Secondary Education		1
4	Catalan (ca) General Certificate of Secondary Education		0
5	Spanish (es) Certificado General de Educación Secundaria (GCSE) (Reino Unido)		0
6	Persian (fa) گواهی عمومی آموزش ثانوی		0
7	French (fr) General Certificate of Secondary Education		0
8	Indonesian (id) General Certificate of Secondary Education		0
9	Japanese (ja) GCSE		0
10	Malay (ms) General Certificate of Secondary Education		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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