Original post by ismaelishereye i mean with physics, i feel like the majority of it is very mundane maths like rearranging formulas. and then putting that into the calculator. at gcse you don't really even delve deep into the underlying concepts that much (and when you do, you rarely use that understanding) you just learn formulas and practice using them which i dont find too fun. also the worded stuff i dont like too much either bc of the picky mark scheme. its weirdly simple for a subject that is meant to be super hard, maybe its just me. i would honeslty enjoy if they made physics questions similar to gcse maths questions where near the end it requires a lot of problem solving, rather than simply picking out data from a question, retrieving the right formula, rearranging and using. people say if you like maths you will like physics, but physics has the most simple, boring maths (imo). physics as a topic in general is one of the most interesting but i personally dont like it at gcse, nor what i see at a level. much rather enjoy it in my free time, watching those cool vids and maybe there's a few good books i might read on physics.
with cs, i feel like its down to how my teacher teaches it, we basically just copy down from the board onto our computers/ make knowledge oragnisers on A3 paper, while copying down from an online knowledge organiser. and then take some tests, all in silence. as a subject its not actually bad, i enjoy coding but it can get super tedious at times. the theory isn't bad and can get interesting at times, but we only get a surface level understanding. like we simply have to accept that a firewall does x but we don't get to know how.
bio i find more interesting. except for plants. human biology is like studying the most intricate machine in the universe, the most brilliant piece of "engineering", tons of systems coming together to keep us alive. i also feel like the mark scheme clicks more for me in this subject, maybe its cus i spent more time revising it than the others.
english, i've only recently started liking. i feel like one day it "clicked" for me and i can somehow appreciate the beauty within literature. i like reading and writing and my favourite part: thinking deeply. sometimes i look at an otherwise disregarded quote, that no one takes interest in, and i think deeply to find meaning. did the writer intend that? (no) but i find it cool synthesising so much from so little. english is what maths is to science, the core of the humanities. it ties together history, philosophy (at a grade 9 level), sociology, psychology (in some ways, how characters interact, their relationships, what that tells the reader)..etc.