During the Japanese occupation of Malaysia in World War II, pupils who sat their Senior Cambridge examinations at some schools in 1941 had to wait until 1946 to learn their results.
At its independence from British India in 1947, Pakistan inherited a number of schools that offered Senior Cambridge examinations.
This is equivalent to the General Certificate of Secondary Education (or GCSE) in England.
The Higher School Certificate (HSC) examinations were replaced by A Levels (roughly equivalent to the present British "sixth form") in 1973.
At the Victoria Institution in 1933, the following list of school textbooks was issued to pupils preparing to study for the Senior Cambridge examinations: