Do you regret any of your GCSE options?

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  1. Safiya122's Avatar
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    Re: Do you regret any of your GCSE options?
    I decided to do; ICT, RE, Urdu and History. I don't think I regret the options I chose, however I might have decided to take Drama instead of ICT because my ICT doesn't really teach well at all. We kind of have to get on with it ourselves but I get 3 GCSEs out of it so..
  2. Lucindaz's Avatar
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    definetly regret taking Music. In all honesty, one of the worst mistakes of my life.
    Absolutely hate it with a passion.
  3. wizzer's Avatar
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    I took Spanish because my mum was insistent on it. I'm going to get a low B or high C :/ and I ignored subjects like IT and Geography which I'm sure I could have got As on instead so yeah I do
  4. Prettygeek's Avatar
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    Re: Do you regret any of your GCSE options?
    No, because funnily enough, I chose them myself.
  5. Papacys's Avatar
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    Re: Do you regret any of your GCSE options?
    history

    Im a*'s across the board

    C in history
  6. TotallyCorporate's Avatar
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    I regret not taking a language but that GCSE wasn't available (clashed with other options).
  7. Funtry's Avatar
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    Re: Do you regret any of your GCSE options?
    I wish I'd done Geography instead of DT and Spanish instead of Latin, so that would have give me Triple science, maths, english lang/lit, German, Spanish, History and Spanish, far better in my opinion c:
  8. foodnom's Avatar
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    catering. lol wot?
    should have taken history.
  9. itssketan's Avatar
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    Re: Do you regret any of your GCSE options?
    I chose Art, Geography and D+T Graphic Products. If I'm honest, I would have chosen Media instead of Graphic Products if I could change them because Media is more fun. But, qualifications-wise it wouldn't be the right thing to do, Media is taken by loads of candidates and it's an easy GCSE so it wouldn't be seen as anything special. It would be seen as a 'easy GCSE' by sixth forms, colleges and employers and it's a bit stupid to choose Media over Graphic Products if you want a carrer in Architecture!
  10. hanaxo's Avatar
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    fine art!
    what.was.i.thinking?!
  11. LucyJ12's Avatar
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    Gcse BUSINESS. So ****.
  12. Pupcraze's Avatar
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    IGCSE business- biggest regret.
    so here it goes
    we start off doing EDEXCEL business IGCSE
    then middle of the year we change to CIE business IGCSE with 12 mark questions that are all on finance and really hard questions, calculating the right stuff, who uses the accounts.
    We changed because only 0.5% of the world got A* for edexcel and everyone got Cs last year.

    For those food tech haters- i totally understand your pain, but i myself love food tech coursework its SO easy and its only 60%, though the paper is quite difficult. All questions that are so simple that you never guess them and when you try to you're wrong.
  13. Pupcraze's Avatar
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    HISTORY IS THE BEST.
    ok its the most interesting.
    but when it comes to revising
    IT IS THE WORST THING EVERR. and im taking hl history next yr along with hl eng lita nd food tech fml
  14. L.O.V.E's Avatar
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    Re: Do you regret any of your GCSE options?
    I'm in year 12 but I seriously regret taking Child Development at GCSE, it was absolute sh*t and not worth the effort at all. I should have taken geography because I was actually really good at it but being my stupid self I decided to pick a subject that my friend was taking so we could be in the same class
  15. Strawberrycayk's Avatar
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    Re: Do you regret any of your GCSE options?
    I regret taking Urdu and not continuing with French, other than that I'm pretty happy with what I took.
  16. Antisocialite's Avatar
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    Re: Do you regret any of your GCSE options?
    Food Tech: Product Design.
    I hate it. Literally hate it. All the options I chose were oversubscribed or dropped since no one chose it, so they decided to put me in Food Tech. FOOD TECH. Although it's only for a year, they could've given me a more useful subject like Child Development or 1 year of Spanish instead of 2. It's relaxing at first and then the coursework deadline comes 2 weeks before your exam and you only have 10 hours to prepare.
    But then again, I got 100% (90/90 - A, not even A*) in the coursework and my exams are next week Friday and I HAVE LEARNT NOTHING - I'm not even bothering with revising. I also regret History. I should've chosen Geography. And Spanish. Eurgh. Spanish, even though I got an A, I still regret taking it. Bragging over. n_n;
    Last edited by Antisocialite; 17-05-2012 at 19:11.
  17. adeena123's Avatar
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    I thought taking Health and Social Care and History would be awesome.. but now I wish I took food tech and geography. It gets boring after a while :/
  18. hopefulfuturemed's Avatar
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    Re: Do you regret any of your GCSE options?
    I regret taking 3 content heavy subjects (history, Geo & R.E) and I envy my friends who took three languages. So much content to learn!

    If you spread out over all of my three content heavy subjects, in total I have 410 pages to learn! (No joke/over-exaggeration - accurate number)!
  19. hopefulfuturemed's Avatar
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    Re: Do you regret any of your GCSE options?
    (Original post by Matt_96)
    French- basically had to self teach myself as my teacher had a mental breakdown. Somehow managed to get 1A and 3B's in controlled assessments though:confused:
    This made me laugh so hard you don't even know. Omg, can't breathe!

    :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

    Thanks for that!
  20. Kajolly's Avatar
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    Re: Do you regret any of your GCSE options?
    Wish I'd taken Photography or even Food Technology over German, since I'm also doing French ;( Still in Year 10, but it's too late to switch now I was told.
    Wish I'd taken a creative subject, I am quite creative but thought the coursework for Art Graphics was too much and I felt safe choosing academic subjects. Oh well
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