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Do you regret any of your GCSE options?

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I hated Edexcel RE (the mark scheme and content is absolutely pure bullcrap) and Business Studies.

I should've chosen Geography instead, and even IT for an easy A*

Fortunately I'm not doing any of these subjects for A Level :biggrin:

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npv24

Original post by BEARichards

BTEC MUSIC DEFINITELY

I am a very academic student, and I play Flute, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Guitar and Piano. I ignored the 'BTEC' and chose Music because I thought it'd be good to do an exam in one of my hobbies. I thought it would be actual academic music stuff like "Listen to this extract and answer the following questions" "What is the time signature of this piece?" etc.

Instead, I'm stuck in a class of people, most of which don't actually know anything about music whatsoever (I still haven't the faintest idea as to why they chose it), and the exams are just performing and doing coursework. I hate coursework with a passion, I haven't learnt anything at all this year. The class is painful to sit through, and I regret choosing it so much, I wish I'd chosen Geography or something now :frown:

The same thing happened to me! My course wasn't a Btec so it had a written exam as well as the performance/coursework parts, but I was expecting something totally different too. I thought I'd find it easy because I play a couple of instruments and considered myself to be a pretty decent musician but I found the composing part really difficult and it ended up being my worst grade! I wish I'd chosen Geography as well.

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basham97

ICT.

I was a bit of a troublemaker in Year 7 to 9 however, I annoyed a lot of the teachers during that period. I began to work really hard in Year 10 and 11 and I am predicted 6 A's, 3 B's and 1 C at GCSE (I found out tomorrow what I actually got). But this teacher, she despised me. She really did, she intentionally marked down my coursework (our coursework was worth 60%) and I ace the exam (A*), but my coursework is like a D. I'm really good with computers at doing stuff other than PowerPoints, Excel or Word, I found it incredibly boring. She was nice to all the other students but me, told my parents about it and they complained. She still didn't stop, so every time I went into that classroom it would always be trouble. She would cause a problem over anything, if my font was a different colour, she would scream, yell and put me in detention because I said I liked the colour. It was horror in that classroom for 2 years, so happy it's over.

History

At the end of year 10 and parts of year 11 I regretted taking Art, because our first teacher was awful and none of the class did any of the work we were meant to do - eventually she was fired and escorted off the premises by the police (apparently she was alcoholic and was caught drinking at work).
Then we had to try and do 2 year's worth of work in 1. I never had time to go back and re-do much of my first project, but I worked super hard on my 2nd and exam projects and hope I've upped my predicted B to an A. I'm glad I took it now, because I did enjoy it more in the last few months and the career I now want to follow may need it (so I'm taking it for A-level).

I also regretted taking music as an extra twilight course when I was panicking about my last coursework piece - it was a song competition, but there was only one recording room and I'm not a singer so I needed to get someone else to sing it. Basically, everyone was busy or the teacher who was supposed to be helping me got times mixed up so I could never record, this goes on for months and months, I get so p***ed off and stressed I end up bawling in the loos one day and missing a music lesson (teacher was angry at first but started taking it more seriously after that). Eventually we sent it without a singing part (used keyboard instead - which was what I had asked to do months before, when everything started going wrong, but they refused).

Again, in the end it all went ok, but up until the very last lesson I'd gotten mixed up with my coursework scores and thought there was no way I could pass AT ALL. But now I'm really glad I took both subjects. :smile:

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IshmamR

Only thing I regret taking is French, I should have gone for Spanish

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Thinedivine

Art! Way too time consuming to get a good grade!

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owelle

Spanish! I'm doing Spanish and French and I get SO confused between both the languages, especially because we're always doing the same topic in both subjects at the same time! Let's just say I'm not my spanish teacher's favourite student… :colondollar:

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hazzaaa123

French, Business studies and GCSE Ict.. Ict was okay at one point because the teacher was ill for about 3 months and all we did was play games, watch movies and pretty much did no work

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minaekei

I enjoyed both Music an Art a lot, but they made me stress out a lot. I don't regret taking either of them but If I had to take anything else I would have picked Fashion and Textiles because I'm a lot more into Fashion than I was in year 9 when I choose the subjects...

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stewarte

Additional Maths - it was the biggest waste of my time, it was only leading me towards A Level Maths (which, by the way, I refused to do).

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Es98

I did triple science, history, French and sociology, I don't regret any of these apart from perhaps triple to an extent ( I cannot stand physics it bores me to tears) however at our school it is compulsory to do P.E BTEC which is a massive waste of time and takes up such a huge block of my timetable which could be used more efficiently and taken up with core subjects ah well only another year of it all

Art...

Just... Art.

Latin. That is all.

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xnads

Textiles should picked history :frown:

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Pallas Athena

Original post by inachigeek21

What were your GCSE options?

The basic Maths and English, Accounting, Commerce, Economics, English Literature, I.C.T, Business Studies and History.

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Farihabubzzxx

well i took sociology food tech and textiles i hate sociology with a passion and want to drop it meaning i will be one less gcse what should i do to make up for it if i do any sugesstions?

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username1514999

I'm in year 11, I did English Language GCSE a year early

In June I'm taking:
Maths, English Lit
Physics, Biology, Chemistry
Spanish
Drama
RS
Art

I really regret taking Drama, even though I love acting. It's a **** department at my school and no matter how amazing you are at drama, they don't teach us any more than to get a C in the exam side of it :frown:

so overall I can't get an A*, even with 100% in my coursework

Wish I'd done Latin.. 2 GCSE's worth and takes up so much less time...

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turn-to-page394

Original post by kiera28

so overall I can't get an A*, even with 100% in my coursework

Wish I'd done Latin.. 2 GCSE's worth and takes up so much less time...

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Trust me... Latin takes up a lot of time and brain space : All the vocabulary! And my teacher saying that setting homework for two tests a week 'doesn't seem enough and she feels bad for not giving us enough'... :mad: