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Do you regret any of your GCSE options?

I did DiDA and Music. My music teacher gave us some of the answers before the exam (they get to listen to the CD to test it).

I don't regret them at all :smile:

Reply 101

pipistrelle

Not taking spanish and doing textiles instead of art
and doing media studies.... i got an a* but i hated it and it was a waste of time, my secondary school was a media/art specialist school and they used to basically force people to take media gcse or even the btec- which luckily i decided against, but i should have stood my ground andrefused to take it at all
i regret all the gcses i was allowed to pick except history which i ended up taking as an AS
and now as an A2 i regret not doing spanish part time at another college as well as my ASs/self teaching
so yeah not having a MFL gcse is my biggest regret tbh
but one thing i'm really glad i did is triple science!

(edited 12 years ago)

Reply 102

und

16

Original post by pipistrelle

and doing media studies.... i got an a* but i hated it and it was a waste of time, my secondary school was a media/art specialist school and they used to basically force people to take media gcse or even the btec- which luckily i decided against, but i should have stood my ground andrefused to take it at all

My school's a media/arts specialist school too but they're the GCSEs they promote the least! I think they just have the status so that they can get the extra funding and justify spending it on projects such as a 'studio' that's more like a lecture theatre. Basically, they had a choice of having a specialism in pretty much anything and they chose art because it's the most convenient.

Reply 103

Besakt

3

German. I wanted to take spanish instead. But school wouldn't let me.

sorry what's DiDA?

The general consensus seems to be thy people regret taking media and wish that they had taken history.

Reply 106

Chriss95

1

I regret taking some BTEC's :/

Reply 107

Chriss95

1

Original post by tamii05

Business Studies :no:

But that may be down to the fact that my teacher couldn't control the class and I was the only one from my form doing it. It was basically a 'chilling' class. :rolleyes:

Exactly the same happened to me! xD

Reply 108

pipistrelle

Original post by und

My school's a media/arts specialist school too but they're the GCSEs they promote the least! I think they just have the status so that they can get the extra funding and justify spending it on projects such as a 'studio' that's more like a lecture theatre. Basically, they had a choice of having a specialism in pretty much anything and they chose art because it's the most convenient.

my school tried to get people to do the BTEC just to inflate grades (at least thats what i think!) that's what they tried to do with me :angry:

i wanted to swap it for art or spanish but my parents said they didnt want to start a drama with the head so i ended up taking it :rolleyes:

Reply 109

oliviaw1677

2

Wish I had taken History instead of Geography because History is just the better subject.

Reply 110

lessQQmorepewpew

shouldnt have done french and spanish as one option, should have just done french over the two years, shouldn't have taken business, should have taken geography.

Reply 111

String.

11

T and D .. :/ my one a :redface:

Reply 112

Neopolitan Girl

13

Not really, I would have preferred to do History instead of French (I'd changed from Drama to History in the first place, so happy I didn't do Drama!), but my school messed up that option at the start of year 10 so I couldn't do History at that time, I'd have liked to do Geography, but German and Separate Science were both only available in one option group, and I preferred to stay in a group of my friends for ICT and didn't want to rearrange my whole timetable.

I liked French, but it to be honest I didn't learn much new material in those last two years, in my school we did french from Year 7 and were sitting GCSE past papers in Year 9, of course I wouldn't have got a good grade if I'd done the GCSE in Year 9 but I feel that it was a lot of time wasted : /

Also Short course Welsh was a waste of time, my welsh is atrocious, but I didn't really have much choice in the matter.

Reply 113

Charlesworth

1

Original post by Daniellejo.

And what the hell is DiDA or CiDA? :s-smilie:

Original post by blackgold

sorry what's DiDA?

DiDA is Diploma in Digital Arts and CiDA is Certificate in Digital Arts.

Not sure what the course for CiDA is like but DiDA you were given this 'scenario' and then given things you had to do.

When I did it one of the 'scenarios' was that we were setting about a youth club thing and we had to create a pillow, wallpaper, screen saver and a walk through of the youth club's room. After everything young you created, you then had to write this report type thing to say how you made it and why you made it the way it was.

So tedious and time consuming!

Reply 114

blackgold

oooh right-sounds a bit of a pain!

SPANISH.

Oh definitely.. We had a week to decide ours and all the sessions to help us choose our options were cancelled! I went and chose media studies, textiles and art. I know now a year later that media doesn't look good on university/college applications. Anyway, on the bright side I've chosen them now, I'm to blame and I'm not going to risk getting bad grades on them so I might as well aim for an A*!

Reply 117

RyanTheRed

9

Business Studies is pathetic.

Reply 118

tr3sbelle

2

Original post by Deziah

I took media, french, double science and ICT.
Should have taken french, triple science and ICT but I'm kinda glad I don't have to do as many exams as triple science.
There isn't any other subjects I would've liked to take, hate things like history and geography and I already do btec PE on the side. :smile:

thats really reassuring seeing as i'm doing I.T, Triple Science & French :smile:

Reply 119

inksplodge

17

i wish id done french and not let my friends put me off. wish business studies hadnt been compulsory and i wish id never done economics as i hated it.

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