Geography or History GCSE?

I'm picking my gcses in february, and I need to pick between geography and history since I cannot do both. I started the year being certain I would pick geography, but it turns out that I'm finding history's essays interesting and got full marks on my last one (however it was an open book one, so it'll be harder when we do one from memory, but I have to choose my gcses before we can do a test like that). Geography is good too, and I got mastery on my report for both the subjects, I enjoy them basically equally, but I don't love to learn about physical geography. Can I have advice from people currently taking the gcses and how they're finding them? thank you

Do you actually want to do one of them? There's no rule that you have to take one.

I would look at the GCSE specification to see what you will be learning. You can find these on the exam board website.

I absolutely do... I would do both if I could but I can't
I've looked at the specs of both, and I find the human geography part of geography very interesting, but we're doing OCR history about how the past affected the future, and that's extremely interesting to me as well.

I'm picking my gcses in february, and I need to pick between geography and history since I cannot do both. I started the year being certain I would pick geography, but it turns out that I'm finding history's essays interesting and got full marks on my last one (however it was an open book one, so it'll be harder when we do one from memory, but I have to choose my gcses before we can do a test like that). Geography is good too, and I got mastery on my report for both the subjects, I enjoy them basically equally, but I don't love to learn about physical geography. Can I have advice from people currently taking the gcses and how they're finding them? thank you

I absolutely do... I would do both if I could but I can't
I've looked at the specs of both, and I find the human geography part of geography very interesting, but we're doing OCR history about how the past affected the future, and that's extremely interesting to me as well.

I love the human part of geography as well, and the history topic sounds so fascinating! I'm luckily able to do both as I couldn't choose either, however, I'm finding that some of the geography can be quite simplistic compared to the history. Maybe this is because I love history and I'm doing more extension work, but I'm definitely finding some of the geo topics very unchallenging - the most complicated part is remembering stats for case studies and that can get a little bit boring. I'm finding history involves more in-depth learning and analysis, and you are able to do longer 10 and 40 mark essays which allow you to implement more knowledge. But ofc every school is different, so don't take this word for word....

i actually really like writing essays and i'd say im alright at memorising stuff. i looked at past papers for my exam board (OCR, explaining the modern world) and theres apparently 5 topics you learn about. honestly, history seems like it would be hard to memorise because theres so much content, is this true? nevertheless, everyone on here prefers history, but im still not sure what i'd rather do. i also looked at geography past papers and the 6 markers seem quite interesting to answer. how much harder is history? I'd like a challenge but I don't want to spend too much time on it and not be able to focus time on other subjects (I'm aiming for all 9s which is crazy but why not try)
im really not sure-