If you are not, you end up with rather few GCSEs, and instead do a confusing mix of qualifications with off-putting names like NVQ, GNVQ, AVCE, GSVQ, or BTECH; 3,500 variants are possible (nobody keeps a full count).
The MBA qualification took off in the UK around the same time as the Beatles and Bob Dylan and, as Dylan himself would say, the times they are a-changin'.
With qualification off the agenda and Luxembourg hardly presenting the most eye-catching opposition, O'Neill also found himself casting forward to the Euro 2016 trail.
It took a 92nd-minute goal against Turkey to take them into the qualification play-offs, an 88th-minute goal against France to win those play-offs and an 89th-minute goal against Portugal in the group stages to lead them into the knockout rounds here.
Meanwhile, Senghor is hopeful that his country's best players will be available for selection for their London Olympics qualification play-off match against Oman on 23 April in the English city of Coventry - the one-off tie is for the last spot in the 2012 Games.
Spain, who won the tournament in 2011 and 2013, will not be able to defend their title following their defeat to Serbia in the qualification play-offs.
The men's football tournament qualification play-off will take place at the City of Coventry Stadium on 23 April with tickets priced between £5 and £10.
He has not featured since France's 2-0 defeat by Ukraine in the first leg of their World Cup qualification play-off in November.
Fifa controversially decided to use the seeding system to categorise the teams in the World Cup qualification play-offs, something it previously claimed it would not employ.
With her run to the quarterfinals, she will rise about 50 spots in the world rankings into the top 90, but is still well short of the Olympic qualification cut-off, which she has stated as a goal.
