Hardest GCSE Subject?
Discussion for GCSE students, including those studying for IGCSEs and O Levels.
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View Poll Results: What Is The Hardest GCSE Subject?
English Lit/Lang 356 24.84% Maths 215 15.00% Science 150 10.47% D & T 39 2.72% Language (Spanish, French, German...) 210 14.65% Geopgraphy 39 2.72% History 167 11.65% Humanities 4 0.28% Media 5 0.35% RE 11 0.77% PE 9 0.63% Engineering 12 0.84% ICT 21 1.47% Art And Design 84 5.86% Business Studies 14 0.98% Other (Post The Subject) 97 6.77%
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Re: Hardest GCSE Subject?I said English because potentially one of the hardest as it is difficult to revise. I would have said a language but it's often very coursework based and so if you get full marks in your coursework and get nothing in your exams, you can still pass
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Re: Hardest GCSE Subject?English Language has the same amount of Coursework as Languages(Original post by Rickie13)
I said English because potentially one of the hardest as it is difficult to revise. I would have said a language but it's often very coursework based and so if you get full marks in your coursework and get nothing in your exams, you can still pass
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Re: Hardest GCSE Subject?Geography is very easy because i got full marks for unit 1 and the grade boundaries for full marks very very low(41/50(Original post by hbk4894)
i would say Geography as i wasnt very good at it.
).However,a lot of people in my class got Es and Us(top set) so maybe it isn't so easy but i find it very easy to extrapolate on ideas and write detailed explanations with several detailaed case studies.I think the options in the poll are quite strange because Geography is a Humanities subject.
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Re: Hardest GCSE Subject?Yes they have to be the most rushed GCSE Subjects,Suprisingly most people find Maths harder than English-unlike most of the forum because a very peculiar fact brought my attention 58.3% get 5 A*-C including E+M yet only 58.6% get M to grade C or above,yet it so easy and double the amount of time is spent on it than English because you have to do 2 GCSEs in English in most schools and on my English Language course you have to produce 9hr 45mins of work+Speaking and Listening tasks and only 3hr45mins for Maths.(Original post by theGeezus)
English Lit/Lang just because of the time you are given to complete such a substantial amount of work.Last edited by Dalek1099; 04-04-2012 at 02:12. -
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Re: Hardest GCSE Subject?My ICT GCSE Coursework is really fun and You'd love my ICT GCSE course because it is all coursework(Original post by I'm JoeKing)
GCSE's seem really easy now oops, but I hated ICT the most by far. The coursework was completely soul-destroying...
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Re: Hardest GCSE Subject?I'm glad that I'm not the only person who finds English Lit./Lang hard (well Lang. isn't that hard, but content-wise, I don't know what gets me the full marks for each question and how to EXPAND on the points, which applies for English Lit. too).
There are so many people carrying on English to AS in our year. Maybe it's because my school is an all girls school. :l -
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Re: Hardest GCSE Subject?Why did you pick Geography then? or was it compulsory?(Original post by overskrill)
Geography, but only because I've never been this disinterested in something throughout my life. The concepts are easy to grasp, but I genuinely feel sad every time I walk into my geog class. -
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Re: Hardest GCSE Subject?I only chose it because I enjoyed it in third year (and because the lowest grade in my class was an A). But once I went into my first GCSE year and we were literally only learning about rivers I just wanted to go back in time.(Original post by Dalek1099)
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Re: Hardest GCSE Subject?I haven't really learnt anyway about rivers in my Geography GCSE course.I have learnt about Coasts and am currently learning about natural disasters and will then move onto tourism and the controlled assessments.(Original post by overskrill)
I only chose it because I enjoyed it in third year (and because the lowest grade in my class was an A). But once I went into my first GCSE year and we were literally only learning about rivers I just wanted to go back in time.
