Edexcel DiDA

[JackBuddy]

The only reason schools do it is so they can get more pupils with more GCSE passes so they can shoot up the school's league table.

[Tintinnabulate]

It's used in replacement of your ICT GCSE, atleast it was at my school. So it must have some weight behind it otherwise schools wouldn't bother with it if college's didn't recognise it as a qualification. I did DiDA for 2 years, ended up with 3 b's.

My school did that and my sixth form has done that too in their high school section.
QCA have forced Edexcel to make DiDA equivalent of 4 GCSE's by making it extremely strict. Hence if you make spelling mistakes etc, you lose marks.
Hence not many students achieve 4 A*'s.