中等教育普通证书(General Certificate of Secondary Education 简称 GCSE) 为国际认可的学历证明。于英格兰，威尔斯以及北爱尔兰等地区的中学中修习两年(某些学校三年)课程后取得。在过去，英国政府让学生在学习完两年的课程后才进行这项证书测验。现在将证书测验改成中学课程的一部份，并且以期末考试作为测验的最终结果。测验本身也增加难度，课业成绩由「受控评价」(Controlled Assessments)取代。受控评价中，学生要完成许多项作业或报告，成绩最终会计算在期末的总成绩内。受控评价的标准通常是以测验形式进行。

The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is an academically rigorous, internationally recognised qualification awarded in a specified subject, generally taken in a number of subjects by pupils in secondary education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland over two years (three years in certain schools). One of the main changes to previous educational qualifications in the United Kingdom was to allow pupils to complete coursework during their two years of study, which was marked by their teachers and contributed to their final examination grade. There has been a move recently from doing coursework and modular examinations for part of the course when pupils would take exams throughout the course to an end of year exam after the two years of study (a 'linear' series). The exams are being revised to make them more difficult such as testing skills from a whole text in English instead of part of a text. Coursework has now been replaced by Controlled Assessments in certain subjects, in which the student completes a number of assessed pieces of work which will ultimately count towards their final examination grade in the specified subject. The Controlled Assessment component of the qualification is usually done under exam style conditions. GCSEs being phased in from 2015 generally have little to no coursework/controlled assessment influence on the final grade.