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fav alevel subject, why?

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Reply 200

eilish1903

It's not that they are tough. I get bored easily and I am still trying to find the optimum revison techniques for me. I've tried loads but none that actually keep me entertained.

Original post by study beats

what? so your underpeforming in all your subjects?.....it seems as if your finding them really tough....i have only been flopping physics though...

Reply 201

Kallisto

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My favorite A-Levels? without a doubt mathematic and all sorts of natural sciences, but especially physics!

Reply 202

Lizy

History! Absolutely fascinating and fun

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Reply 203

Plantagenet Crown

My favourite was Chemistry, mainly because of the experiments with the mad looking apparatus!

Reply 204

Dualcore

Original post by Plantagenet Crown

My favourite was Chemistry, mainly because of the experiments with the mad looking apparatus!

This. That's why I'm taking it at uni :biggrin:

Reply 205

Changing Skies

History or biology, I love them both so can't decide :love:

They're just so so interesting :biggrin:

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Reply 206

DavidYorkshireFTW

I would have to say biology:
This is because I find the content challenging but also really interesting at the same time because you can relate a lot of it to everyday life. Also my teachers use to pick on my a lot and talk down to me which encouraged me to really work to spite them :colone:

I have a place now to study Biomedical Science at university which I am looking forward to :biggrin:

Reply 207

x-Sophie-x

Physics...our lessons are full of experiments. I don't think we've even once made notes.
One time we used a popcorn machine to mimic radioactive decay :lol:

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Reply 208

HelpTheInnocent

Gotta be Mathematics! Everything's just so logical and it's just awesome when you can do a 10 marker in M3!

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Reply 209

manic_fuzz

English Literature, I quite like reading/analysing texts :yep:

Reply 210

John Stuart Mill

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The thing that annoys me most about A-levels is the markscheme culture, basically if its not on the markscheme, its not valuable? what kind of **** is that, that is the one thing I think they should change, be more open to other ideas than just what they decided to print one day. But the markschemes for maths are very accurate as there is one right answer, unlike explanatory subjects

hmm anyone for TSR Edexcel Hater society??

Reply 211

Robbie242

Original post by John Stuart Mill

hmm anyone for TSR Edexcel Hater society??

Haha I've changed my mind again though, they gave me an A for both of my history exams (including the retake) but yes revolt against Edexhell :biggrin:

Reply 212

SyedaK

Chemistry, I love the calculations and the experiments. We made Aspirin once :colone:

Reply 213

falling

I honestly loved all my A2 subjects/ Spanish bc I love the language and we had a great teacher so classes were always fun. Religion because it was interesting/I love essay based subjects and geography because I loved the case studies and found it easy/a lot of it to be common sense.

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Kallisto

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Original post by x-Sophie-x

Physics...our lessons are full of experiments. I don't think we've even once made notes.
One time we used a popcorn machine to mimic radioactive decay :lol:

That sounds very funny :biggrin:

I guess your teacher was very inventive, wasn't he? and what was his/her explanation in terms of a popcorn machine?

Reply 215

x-Sophie-x

Original post by Kallisto

That sounds very funny :biggrin:

I guess your teacher was very inventive, wasn't he? and what was his/her explanation in terms of a popcorn machine?

I know

Haha yes, he's even patented this microwave invention thing :biggrin:

It was just to show the random nature of radioactive decay lol. Very educational :rolleyes:

The best bit was eating the leftover popcorn :biggrin:

He's also made us this wooden board with a 'nucleus' and balls flying everywhere just so we could understand the Rutherford's scattering experiment :L And we did some electronic work to make a mini Geiger counter :lol:

Plus some experiments with dry ice and we even went on the field so he could show us the explosion of his 'bomb'. And countless other little experiments, it's been a fun year xD

It's so sad he's leaving though :frown: