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Hardest And Easiest Highers

Hi there I just wanted to get an idea of what everyone think there easiest and hardest highers are.

I'll start.

Easiest: Computing
Hardest: Physical Education

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Reply 1

Sha_15

Original post by GreigM

Hi there I just wanted to get an idea of what everyone think there easiest and hardest highers are.

I'll start.

Easiest: Computing
Hardest: Physical Education

:smile:

Easiest: Subjects such as Law, Biology, economics, basically everything that is just pure memory/just read a book and learn what it tells you.

Hardest: Real subjects such as Maths, Physics, Engineering, which actually need brainpower to learn.

Reply 2

UserUnavailable

for me,

easiest; english
hardest; maths

Reply 3

TheFOMaster

Eh, I suppose it varies from person to person, but the easiest Higher I've done was Computing, and the hardest is English.

Reply 4

CSM1996

How is p.e the hardest higher omg.

Easiest higher: geography. It's actually a pjss take, you get like a mark for naming a country and all sorts. Basically you memorise a book and you've got an A.
Hardest higher: chemistry. I struggle more with English than chemistry but English isn't that hard, it's just that I can't do it :tongue:

Reply 5

CSM1996

Original post by nerd434

Easiest: I'll go with Biology. The material itself isn't all that difficult, there's just a fair amount of it. If you have an interest in Biology and you're keen to learn the content, it's more or less a guaranteed A grade.

I agree, unit 1 and 2 provide little difficulties for me (apart from meiosis/mitosis but I'm never learning that :tongue:

) But unit 3... omg. It's all new stuff and my teacher has been off so we've been working through it ourselves. We have 3 weeks left of school and still got 3 1/2 books to do... It's getting to the point where everyone is panicking if we will finish the course in time :frown:

Plus when I look at past papers about unit 3 stuff, I can't do any of it. Even though I've just completed it in class. It's completely ridiculous. He is always off.

Rant over.

Reply 6

FionaHunt

I don't know what I would say for hardest as although I'm finding Physics difficult I don't think that it's the actual subject which is too bad I just have a beyond useless teacher :tongue:

But as far as easiest goes, for me there is no doubt, it has to be maths. The first two units especially are insanely easy! :rolleyes:

Reply 7

ladymarshmallow

For me, it's Higher English. It took me a little while to properly get into my stride with regards to the essays and how to answer them correctly. Not really a subject you can cram for. I actually find modern studies hard in being able to write concisely in very tight time constraints, although the actual content itself is straightforward.
My easiest subjects have been French, German, and History. If you're good at languages, then French and German shouldn't be too taxing - the workload is pretty light in comparism to some subjects and the topics just seem to be a continuation of SG with perhaps a few fancy phrases and constructions thrown in. Plus, watching films, listening to music all counts as revision. :wink:

. As for History, the essays are pretty straightforward once you get used to it, and it's not one of those subjects where the essay questions are notoriously unpredictable (I'm looking at you, higher English). Paper 2, the source questions, is a doddle once you've nailed the technique as there are only two types of questions ("to what extent"/"how useful"?)
Overall, it's very difficult to define "hardest" and "easiest" highers, as this is such a subjective question, but that's just my take on things. Some , say, may find Higher maths a doddle, whereas if I had taken it I would have foundered.

Reply 8

TheFOMaster

Original post by ladymarshmallow

Overall, it's very difficult to define "hardest" and "easiest" highers, as this is such a subjective question, but that's just my take on things. Some , say, may find Higher maths a doddle, whereas if I had taken it I would have foundered.

True! You got 99% on your German prelim right? If I took Higher German, I probably wouldn't have gotten a 9th of that... I completely failed my standard grade German listening :tongue:

Reply 9

CSM1996

Original post by TheFOMaster

True! You got 99% on your German prelim right? If I took Higher German, I probably wouldn't have gotten a 9th of that... I completely failed my standard grade German listening :tongue:

I got 4/20 in my int 2 french listening prelim pmsl

Reply 10

ladymarshmallow

Original post by TheFOMaster

True! You got 99% on your German prelim right? If I took Higher German, I probably wouldn't have gotten a 9th of that... I completely failed my standard grade German listening :tongue:

I did

. Don't worry I got a 3 for my Standard Grade maths exam, which is pretty dire... :colondollar:

I also only scraped through 2nd year chemistry with 50%... :tongue:

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From looking through the forums, you seem to be pretty damn good at the sciences/maths.

Reply 11

Ambry

For me, hardest is maths.
I got an A band 1 in every other prelim but failed maths!

I'm studying my ass off for it just now XD

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Reply 12

Nessie162

Easiest: Biology and Geography. As someone already said, learn everything from book all by heart and you'll get an A.
Hardest: Chemistry

Reply 13

mcdermie

Easiest: geography
Hardest: history

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Reply 14

wndms

Easiest: music
Hardest: politics, history

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Reply 15

Tycho

Original post by CSM1996

I got 4/20 in my int 2 french listening prelim pmsl

Did I miss something. Why is this funny... ? Don't you care if you fail?

Reply 16

Tycho

It's such a subjective question. :rofl:

Reply 17

deedee123

for me, easiest: Geography
Hardest: Maths

Reply 18

CSM1996

Original post by Tycho

Did I miss something. Why is this funny... ? Don't you care if you fail?

I still got an A overall... it's cause I was in an int 1/int 2 french class so we hadn't done any french listening before. Therefore, that was my first. So.. taking things in to consideration, it's hardly bad.

Reply 19

aspirinpharmacist

Personally...

Easiest: English, it was just something that automatically clicked in my head
Hardest: Maths, did really well in all the prelims, freaked out in the exam. So maybe Chemistry was harder, which makes me wonder why I'm doing pharmacy :lol: