Do you regret your GCSE options or are you happy with them?

I kinda resent my choice. I chose Geography, French and Computing (Y10 now) and after spending time and learning of my units, I'm fine with them, but I still feel some regret. Don't get me wrong I love Geography and Computing, and I'm predicted A*A*A in them. But I feel with the Government clamp down on subjects I feel more regret and limits. Ideally if I had it 4 subjects (or 3 and a twilight) I would've picked History, Geography, Engineering and Computing, or History, Computing, French and Engineering.

I especially regret French, I'm ok at it, but I don't feel motivated to continue with it.

But I guess I haven't been doing them long enough to have a full opinion on it.

Anyways enough about me, how about you? Do you regret your options or are you happy, I would love to hear some input from fellow students.

im in year 11 and absolutely hate computing! for my year the coursework is 60% of the grade whereas yours is something like 20%? if you think it is hard can you imagine how hard it is for us. having coursework be 60% when we are barely even familiar with coding.

Ah yes it is roughly 20% for us, and we are lucky for that, our class is not familiar with the programming language, and the teacher is very hesitant to and usually delays our coding lessons, probably as she doesn't know any more herself!

what is your controlled assessment about? what you learn until around May 2016 is all that will come up in your exam in 2017. theres actually not alot of content

I believe the theory/coursework hour we do (3 lessons a week) A452 correct me if I'm wrong. We're meant to be looking into the current trends in computing, and conducting a report on a real life computer problem. That makes 30%. Another 30% coursework is through our programming project where we just plan build an advanced program in Visual Basic. The rest is just an exam

im in year 11 and absolutely hate computing! for my year the coursework is 60% of the grade whereas yours is something like 20%? if you think it is hard can you imagine how hard it is for us. having coursework be 60% when we are barely even familiar with coding.

im in year 11 and absolutely hate computing! for my year the coursework is 60% of the grade whereas yours is something like 20%? if you think it is hard can you imagine how hard it is for us. having coursework be 60% when we are barely even familiar with coding.

I'm year 10 and our computing CA is 60%. We did have year 9 to start the course though What exam board are you?


As for my option choice. We had 5! I chose French, electronics, computing, history and business. I wanted music rather than business but it was music or history and I chose history. The French was a one year and it took a lot of work but I think it was worth it to have a language and never have to do any again. I definitely don't regret computing or history and most the time I enjoy electronics but business is really boring (maybe it's just my teacher) even if I get good marks on the test though I think the topic we do next year is more exciting as it's financial stuff which I more my thing. There was nothing else on the list that I would have picked instead of business as I didn't like any of them so it could be a lot worse.

What programming language are you using? My class had a poor teacher in year 10, so when a new one came in this year we had to start again, and most of the class seem to be fine.

If anything, coursework is easier than the exam, from a logical point of view.

we are doing our controlled assessment on python. Same!! we had a crappy teacher who could not even teach and we have had to basically teach ourselves.

I see, we're using small basic, which is laughably easy to use. Python is good once you've been using it for a while, but students need to be told the basic commands and functions within it.

If you need help on python, I strongly recommend going on khan academy, it offers a vast range of tutorials and tasks based on the programming language, and it's totally free!

well for us it isnt considering we werent taught properly. Expectations are becoming too high nowadays. did you study computing? Thank you ill check khan academy out

I kinda resent my choice. I chose Geography, French and Computing (Y10 now) and after spending time and learning of my units, I'm fine with them, but I still feel some regret. Don't get me wrong I love Geography and Computing, and I'm predicted A*A*A in them. But I feel with the Government clamp down on subjects I feel more regret and limits. Ideally if I had it 4 subjects (or 3 and a twilight) I would've picked History, Geography, Engineering and Computing, or History, Computing, French and Engineering.

I especially regret French, I'm ok at it, but I don't feel motivated to continue with it.

But I guess I haven't been doing them long enough to have a full opinion on it.

Anyways enough about me, how about you? Do you regret your options or are you happy, I would love to hear some input from fellow students.

i was told the current year 10's only have 20% coursework maybe it was for OCR examboard. my examboard is ocr. I chose geography, history, psychology and computing. i regret choosing all the hard subjects. im currently procrastinating when i should be revising for my mock exams tomorrow

I kinda resent my choice. I chose Geography, French and Computing (Y10 now) and after spending time and learning of my units, I'm fine with them, but I still feel some regret. Don't get me wrong I love Geography and Computing, and I'm predicted A*A*A in them. But I feel with the Government clamp down on subjects I feel more regret and limits. Ideally if I had it 4 subjects (or 3 and a twilight) I would've picked History, Geography, Engineering and Computing, or History, Computing, French and Engineering.

I especially regret French, I'm ok at it, but I don't feel motivated to continue with it.

But I guess I haven't been doing them long enough to have a full opinion on it.

Anyways enough about me, how about you? Do you regret your options or are you happy, I would love to hear some input from fellow students.