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  1. ergo30's Avatar
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    what gcse subjects did you choose to study for options?
    What subjects did everyone choose to study during gcse, I'm taking my options now. I'm taking:

    History
    Geography
    Spanish
    Business Studies
    and 5 other compulsory subjects.


    Are these options okay? What subjects did you choose? Could I study better subjects?
    Last edited by ergo30; 26-07-2012 at 15:19.
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    (Original post by ergo30)
    What subjects did everyone choose to study during gcse, I'm taking my options now. I'm taking:

    History
    Geography
    Spanish
    Business Studies

    Are these options okay? What subjects did you choose? Could I study better subjects?
    Not for me to say... Look at my profile to see what I did..
    I'd be total against, business, as it's mind numbingly dull! But it'll be an eAsy grade I guess, but prepare to be bored!!! As for geography, the physical side is interesting for me, but human parts are boring so you'll have to bare some bits history is brilliant and so is a language, I'm doing French though
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    Re: what gcse subjects did you choose to study for options?
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    Not for me to say... Look at my profile to see what I did..I'd be total against, business, as it's mind numbingly dull! But it'll be an eAsy grade I guess, but prepare to be bored!!! As for geography, the physical side is interesting for me, but human parts are boring so you'll have to bare some bits history is brilliant and so is a language, I'm doing French though

    I wish I was doing french rather than Spanish but its too late to change language.
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    (Original post by ergo30)
    I wish I was doing french rather than Spanish but its too late to change language.
    Aww! Yeah, French is awesome!!
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    Classical Civilisation
    Geography
    Ict
    Spanish,
    And the cores



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    Re: what gcse subjects did you choose to study for options?
    I'd did 5 core subjects +

    triple award science
    latin
    geography
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    Re: what gcse subjects did you choose to study for options?
    (Original post by ergo30)
    What subjects did everyone choose to study during gcse, I'm taking my options now. I'm taking:

    History
    Geography
    Spanish
    Business Studies
    and 5 other compulsory subjects.


    Are these options okay? What subjects did you choose? Could I study better subjects?
    they look like a good mix, i do geography , history , psychology , and science in society
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    Re: what gcse subjects did you choose to study for options?
    (Original post by ergo30)
    What subjects did everyone choose to study during gcse, I'm taking my options now. I'm taking:

    History
    Geography
    Spanish
    Business Studies
    and 5 other compulsory subjects.


    Are these options okay? What subjects did you choose? Could I study better subjects?
    It doesn't matter too much what subjects you take at GCSE (the important ones are English and Maths), so those options are fine. It's best to pick what you enjoy.

    Personally, I chose:
    French
    History
    Economics
    Computing
    + 6 compulsory subjects.

    Last edited by usycool1; 29-07-2012 at 18:33.
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    Re: what gcse subjects did you choose to study for options?
    French
    History
    Engineering
    Astronomy
    +(8 compulsory subjects and 1 compulsory short course)
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    Re: what gcse subjects did you choose to study for options?
    I took triple science, history and drama. History was very interesting, triple science was dead boring apart from experiments and drama was fun as we always mucked around.
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    Re: what gcse subjects did you choose to study for options?
    Those options sound sensible - overall you have to pick subjects you enjoy.
    I chose: History, Drama, Media Studies and French.
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    (Original post by Jennie027)
    Those options sound sensible - overall you have to pick subjects you enjoy.
    I chose: History, Drama, Media Studies and French.
    Media studies was.compulsory for.us we sat it in year nine instead
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    Re: what gcse subjects did you choose to study for options?
    (Original post by ergo30)
    What subjects did everyone choose to study during gcse, I'm taking my options now. I'm taking:

    History
    Geography
    Spanish
    Business Studies
    and 5 other compulsory subjects.


    Are these options okay? What subjects did you choose? Could I study better subjects?
    Not even joking, that's exactly what I took! Although, I do have to say that while Business is relatively easy, it can be quite boring.. I don't mind Business to be honest, but I reckon that's just down to the teacher I have.
    Don't worry about "better" subjects; as long as you're happy with what you've taken and you don't **** around in the lessons, you'll be fine. I don't think you really need to concentrate on the merit of each subject until A-levels - and this is coming from a GCSE student!
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    Re: what gcse subjects did you choose to study for options?
    My options were divided into 1 language which was compulsory + 3 options of choice.

    My chosen language was French and my 3 other options were German, History and Drama
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    (Original post by shadab786ahmed)
    Media studies was.compulsory for.us we sat it in year nine instead
    Lucky you! The language was compulsory for us - Japanese year 7, then either Spanish or German alongside French years 7-9 (I chose Spanish) and then had to choose at least one language for 10 and 11 - could be French, Spanish, Russian, Italian or Japanese. I chose French. So I sat French and Spanish GCSE year 9.
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    Re: what gcse subjects did you choose to study for options?
    (Original post by ergo30)
    What subjects did everyone choose to study during gcse, I'm taking my options now. I'm taking:

    History
    Geography
    Spanish
    Business Studies
    and 5 other compulsory subjects.


    Are these options okay? What subjects did you choose? Could I study better subjects?
    At GCSE your grades don't matter, as long as you do English and Maths. At this stage you should choose the options that you enjoy most and would do best in, and then aim for the best grades you possibly can.

    I chose Triple Science, French, German, History, Art and Business + 4 core options.
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    (Original post by Jennie027)
    Lucky you! The language was compulsory for us - Japanese year 7, then either Spanish or German alongside French years 7-9 (I chose Spanish) and then had to choose at least one language for 10 and 11 - could be French, Spanish, Russian, Italian or Japanese. I chose French. So I sat French and Spanish GCSE year 9.
    Wow! What did you get? I'm doing French now
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    I did:
    Graphics
    Textiles
    History

    But we had to take Spanish
    I have no regrets doing history, its seen as a more academically challenging subject so looks goid in the future. I went on to do it at A level too so yeah, I'd say do that.
    Graphics was the stupidest thing I ever did, but it was easy.

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  19. ergo30's Avatar
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    Re: what gcse subjects did you choose to study for options?
    What is drama like in gcse? is it hard?
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    Re: what gcse subjects did you choose to study for options?
    Cores +
    History
    English Lit
    Photography
    Dance BTech
    Triple science
    citizenship (sadly no choice)
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