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GCSEs ranked easiest to hardest

What do you think are the easiest to hardest gcses ranked?

In my personal experience:

1. French (A*)
2. Classical civilisations (A*)
3. Spanish (A*)
4. Maths (A*)
5. English literature (A*)
6. History (A)
7. Physics (A*)
8. English language (A)
9 Biology (B)
10. Chemistry (A*)
11. Mandarin (A)
12. Geography (B)
13. Further maths (A)
P.E thing
Geography
RE
English Literature
English Language
Physics
Biology
Chemistry
French
History
Maths
Further Maths
(edited 3 years ago)
Reply 2
right lemme try to cast my mind back

French (technically my mother tongue though)
Astronomy (yes it exists)
History
German
Physics
DT (I made it unnecessarily hard for myself)
English language
Maths
Chemistry
Biology
English literature (a lot to memorise)
Further pure maths
Reply 3
Business
Geography
French
Physics
Biology
English Language (once u learn the techniques it’s easyyy)
Chemistry
Maths
English Literature
Original post by RyanC_
Business
Geography
French
Physics
Biology
English Language (once u learn the techniques it’s easyyy)
Chemistry
Maths
English Literature

Did you not get 4 choices?
Original post by Bookworm_88
Did you not get 4 choices?

Choosing seperate sciences can also be seen as a fourth choice as you get 3 GCSES (not 2) from it
Original post by Sinnoh
right lemme try to cast my mind back

French (technically my mother tongue though)
Astronomy (yes it exists)
History
German
Physics
DT (I made it unnecessarily hard for myself)
English language
Maths
Chemistry
Biology
English literature (a lot to memorise)
Further pure maths

High five for French GCSE being difficult even when you speak it fluently - the writing bit is hard :biggrin:
Reply 7
Original post by becausethenight
High five for French GCSE being difficult even when you speak it fluently - the writing bit is hard :biggrin:


Oh no, I have easiest at the top :colondollar:
Easy

Latin
Biology
Spanish
English Literature
Chemistry
Maths
French
History
Physics
English Language

Hard
Original post by Sinnoh
Oh no, I have easiest at the top :colondollar:

Ah sorry!


Did you still have the experience where you write a nice paragraph about your holiday and get told it’s capped at B because you only used 5 verb tenses? Or was that just me :tongue:
Reply 10
Original post by becausethenight
Ah sorry!


Did you still have the experience where you write a nice paragraph about your holiday and get told it’s capped at B because you only used 5 verb tenses? Or was that just me :tongue:


I don't know, I did it off-timetable and didn't really have any lessons. I dropped a fair few marks in one of my controlled assessments but I don't know which
Reply 11
Original post by Bookworm_88
Did you not get 4 choices?

No, my school only let us do 3 options so I could only do business, geog and french :smile:

They also didn't teach RE at my school or I probably would've done that too.

I always feel a bit silly tho since all people on TSR all seem to have like 10+ GCSEs :lol:
History
Maths
Dance
English lit
English lang
German
Music
Chemistry
Biology
Physics
Art
Original post by Sinnoh
I don't know, I did it off-timetable and didn't really have any lessons. I dropped a fair few marks in one of my controlled assessments but I don't know which

Fair enough. I did two past papers with a teacher and then they signed me off, so a similar sort of thing really.
Reply 14
Original post by RyanC_
No, my school only let us do 3 options so I could only do business, geog and french :smile:

They also didn't teach RE at my school or I probably would've done that too.

I always feel a bit silly tho since all people on TSR all seem to have like 10+ GCSEs :lol:


Yeah I'm never quite sure how they timetable 12 GCSEs at once. I didn't do all of mine in the same exam season, most people at my school took 9 GCSEs
Reply 15
Original post by Sinnoh
Yeah I'm never quite sure how they timetable 12 GCSEs at once. I didn't do all of mine in the same exam season, most people at my school took 9 GCSEs

Me neither.. I had a full timetable with my 9 in Y10 and then 8 in Y11 (did business early)

I'm annoyed at my school cos I could've done GCSE Statistics in Y10 but I wasn't allowed because I was on a different timetable and I'm also annoyed at myself cos I turned down doing Further Maths which with what's happened to GCSEs, could've been quite good :lol: ... Ohh well the grades matter more anyway I suppose :dontknow:
Reply 16
Out of my subjects

EASIEST
Drama
English Literature
Business
English Language
Spanish
Chemistry
Maths
Physics (only because of electromagnets)
Biology (only because of the amount of memorisation)
HARDEST
Original post by effystonem123
What do you think are the easiest to hardest gcses ranked?

In my personal experience:

1. French (A*)
2. Classical civilisations (A*)
3. Spanish (A*)
4. Maths (A*)
5. English literature (A*)
6. History (A)
7. Physics (A*)
8. English language (A)
9 Biology (B)
10. Chemistry (A*)
11. Mandarin (A)
12. Geography (B)
13. Further maths (A)


You big brained! may I ask how you revised to get such amazing grades??
Hardest

- English Literature (Getting quotes takes long as + writing essays is so boring for me)
- English Language (Only cause of the creative writing in Paper 1)
- History (Only cause of the bloody Elizabeth topic which was organised so weirdly)
- DT (The NEA was fine but the exam itself has some weird questions + lotssss of content that is just pure memorisation)
- Chemistry
- Biology
- Physics + Maths + Further Maths (Physics is just Maths tbh and imo Further Maths is easier cause there's so little content)
- French + Spanish (Native Speaker)

Easiest

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