A sprightly pensioner has become the oldest person in Britain to ever sit a GCSE exam - at the grand age of 92. Derek Skipper is hoping for a level four or five, the highest available on the free adult education course he completed, when he gets his results back in August.
But he said the result doesn’t matter that much as he’d signed up to challenge himself to sit a modern exam paper. And he’s picked up more than just Maths skills after using YouTube for the first time to complete the course, run by The Cam Academy Trust.
Derek, a former radar engineer during the Korean War, sat his exam at Comberton Village College near Cambridge alongside a gym full of 16-year-olds. The married father-of-two said: “I didn’t even notice they were there. I just had my head down and got on with it.
