AQA General Studies GCSE - Indepensent Study?
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AQA General Studies GCSE - Indepensent Study?would it be possible to study the whole GCSE on my own maby with a friend, and a teacher who does not teach general studies [ my school dosen't do GE) is there too much in the syllubas? Can I buy a textbook from somewhere? Is it mostly common sense and bull****ing?
Any advise wwould be appriciated
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Re: AQA General Studies GCSE - Indepensent Study?Ok, so you want to self teach General Studies and sit the exam at your school?(Original post by faiz94)
would it be possible to study the whole GCSE on my own maby with a friend, and a teacher who does not teach general studies [ my school dosen't do GE) is there too much in the syllubas? Can I buy a textbook from somewhere? Is it mostly common sense and bull****ing?
Any advise wwould be appriciated
I am in the same situation. I want to have more GCSE as I only have 7 or 8 and they are all B/C grades so I am going to take a few more to get a few A's AQA GCSE General Studies is a good start. I do it for AS and got an A on Unit 3. Go on Amazon.com and search AQA GCSE General Studies and see whats comes up. I am just going to follow the spec and do past papers. I did a few and got A Grades on them. Yeah most of it is common sense!
Good Luck. Remember there is a case study for Paper 2 (But if you are doing coursework you won't have to do it)
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Re: AQA General Studies GCSE - Indepensent Study?GCSE general studies is basically just like GCSE English. We had to take it in our first year of college, had no preparation (I think I looked at an exam paper the night before) and I got an A*, as did many of my friends. So if you really want it, it's easy, but I don't think it shows anything more than being able to read and understand, and maybe having a vague knowledge of the news.
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Re: AQA General Studies GCSE - Indepensent Study?General Studies isn't really acknowledged, so having it will not give you any advantage.
However, it is mostly common sense, but you wouldn't want to deal with the additional stress srsly
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Re: AQA General Studies GCSE - Indepensent Study?people say general studies is bad and is A load of bull shi but its not its a hard gcse and probably even harder a level i sit my genral studies tommorow so i need to revise but i dont know any places for general studies
