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Lies they tell you at GCSE

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That if you do badly on your coursework, it won't matter too much.
If I had to be honest, if my coursework in Spanish hadn't have been As/A*s then I wouldn't have got an A overall considering I got a D in the listening paper :/
That you only need 5 A*-C at GCSE to get into good unis.

If I had known how much of a lie that was I would've tried a hell of a lot harder in my gcses.
Cba to check if mentioned already but electron configurations. 2 first shell then 8 in every other shell, not true.
That the treaty of Versailles was one of the main causes for the rise of the Nazis.
like yes it was important so it isn't a lie exactly, but there are SO many other factors that were never even mentioned and so much onus was put onto the ToV.
I suspect it was because they didn't have time to go through all the other factors but there we go :redface:
"These grades are sooooooooooooo important"
"Hitler directly caused WW2"

"PR is the worst thing on the earth"

"You got an A on your coursework"

"This is the hardest it'll get"
Original post by Spudder
Our head of year told us GCSEs weren't important. I beg to differ, especially for universitity applications, decent jobs etc etc.

They also told us Pluto was a planet... damn those misinformed teachers!!!!


I second this. They are. You don't have to necessarily remember the information you learned from them but having C+ and above goes a long way, for a long time. It will make your life easier.
they told me in chemistry that atoms are only happy when they have full shells

i was disappointed to find out when i went to AS level that actually atoms are fine with incomplete shells, as long as electrons are paired up then it's fine, worst case is that free radicals are floating about in space somewhere....
The first few that came to mind:

Animal cells don't have vacuoles.

Some quadratics can't be factorised.

Molecules are unstable if they don't follow the full outer shell rule.

Atoms make up everything.

pH goes from 1 to 14.

During β+\beta^+ decay, a proton becomes a neutron and only a positron is emitted. A similar lie for β−\beta^- decay.

There is a reason for GCSE English.

Newton's second law is F = ma.

E = Fx.

There's no such thing as centripetal force.

Light is a wave.

Photosynthesis and respiration.
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Original post by morgan8002
The first few that came to mind:

Animal cells don't have vacuoles.

Some quadratics can't be factorised.

Molecules are unstable if they don't follow the full outer shell rule.

Atoms make up everything.

pH goes from 1 to 14.

During β+\beta^+ decay, a proton becomes a neutron and only a positron is emitted. A similar lie for β−\beta^- decay.

There is a reason for GCSE English.

Newton's second law is F = ma.

E = Fx.

There's no such thing as centripetal force.

Light is a wave.

Photosynthesis and respiration.


I lost it at the GCSE English 😂


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