Hardest GCSE Subject?
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View Poll Results: What Is The Hardest GCSE Subject?
English Lit/Lang 356 24.83% Maths 215 14.99% Science 150 10.46% D & T 39 2.72% Language (Spanish, French, German...) 210 14.64% Geopgraphy 39 2.72% History 167 11.65% Humanities 4 0.28% Media 5 0.35% RE 11 0.77% PE 10 0.70% Engineering 12 0.84% ICT 21 1.46% Art And Design 84 5.86% Business Studies 14 0.98% Other (Post The Subject) 97 6.76%
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Re: Hardest GCSE Subject?(Original post by mizfissy815)
IGCSE Accounting....and Business Studies.
IGCSE accounting is one of the most scoring subjects! Hardly anyone ever gets C! Last year, my class all got A*s, As & there were a few Bs despite the fact that most us were getting like Ds in classes.
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Re: Hardest GCSE Subject?Despite being a numbers person myself...I never liked it. It didn't really help that I took it the first year it was introduced in the school. They just threw a book at my Business teacher and told her to teach Accounting as well. She's never taken accounting and told us straight out that she barely scraped a pass at GCSE Maths. She didn't know anything about accounting and we were the 'try out' class. Had we done horribly, they would have found another teacher, or stop teaching it altogether. The school never gave us textbooks for it, and we had to buy it ourselves. In the end, most us did OK only because almost all of us to private tuitions. I studying it myself though and I won’t forget the agony I went through to get the grade that I got.IGCSE accounting is one of the most scoring subjects! Hardly anyone ever gets C! Last year, my class all got A*s, As & there were a few Bs despite the fact that most us were getting like Ds in classes. -
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Re: Hardest GCSE Subject?A hard subject is something that is hard to learn.
Maths and physics, chemistry and biology are just about remembering things.
I think English is the hardest because you can be taught what to write, but eventually it comes down to just you and your interpretation of things.
You cant be taught how to get an A* because you have to be original.
You wont get an A* by memorising revision guide information like in other subjects. -
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Re: Hardest GCSE Subject?I voted for Art and Design, purely because of the amount of work you need to do. You can be absolutely amazing, and still get a C or D simply because you didn't do the amount of work required. There's SO much coursework and the grade boundaries are extremely high - you need 98% for an A*!!!
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Re: Hardest GCSE Subject?(Original post by Neo~)
I'm surprised most votes are for english/lit
Thought it would be Science
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I'm surprised most votes are for english/lit
Thought it would be Science
We get the point(Original post by Neo~)
I'm surprised most votes are for english/lit
Thought it would be Science
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Re: Hardest GCSE Subject?Im english, you have to give your own views and open your mind. Thats what I cannot do.(Original post by Neo~)
I'm surprised most votes are for english/lit
Thought it would be Science
In science, all you have to do is remember the scientific knowledge and the formulas. -
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Re: Hardest GCSE Subject?english is tough because there's no real set of things which you can learn. It's not like in a science or maths exam where you can go out feeling that you've covered all the points for a questiona nd should get full marks. Sometimes if i do a piece at school I'll get an A*, but sometimes I'll get an A or B and I'm not really sure what I've done differently
