Geography or computing science

just started year 10 and there is a small window to change your GSCE options if available. I am doing product design, Spanish, history and com sci. However I am thinking of changing com sci to geography. Throughout ks3 I always enjoyed geography and was pretty good at it and in hindsight I'm not really sure why I picked CS I kind of just decided I was doing it in year 7 for some reason and then I guess I never really thought I could do history and geography. Anyways I think I am better at geography than CS and I'm thinking CS could be interesting but I also I feel like i could learn it on YouTube because I learnt a bit of Phyton outside of school and learnt more in an hour than I ever did at school What do you guys think like also in regards to practicality of the subjects I guess they are both pretty relevant. Ps another one of my reasons to do geography is that I saw the a bunch of movies and stuff like where they hunt storms and that looked pretty copñ

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Yinbeemie

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Original post by williamjwilson

just started year 10 and there is a small window to change your GSCE options if available. I am doing product design, Spanish, history and com sci. However I am thinking of changing com sci to geography. Throughout ks3 I always enjoyed geography and was pretty good at it and in hindsight I'm not really sure why I picked CS I kind of just decided I was doing it in year 7 for some reason and then I guess I never really thought I could do history and geography. Anyways I think I am better at geography than CS and I'm thinking CS could be interesting but I also I feel like i could learn it on YouTube because I learnt a bit of Phyton outside of school and learnt more in an hour than I ever did at school What do you guys think like also in regards to practicality of the subjects I guess they are both pretty relevant. Ps another one of my reasons to do geography is that I saw the a bunch of movies and stuff like where they hunt storms and that looked pretty copñ

Computer science isn't all coding and geography isn't all hunting storms. Geography has more content than you'd think and a common misconception is that because you do "less writing" compared to history it is easier. It isn't. Computer science, you either love it or hate it. In terms of practicality Computer science can lead to a lot of future careers and in terms of grades depending on your exam board(I did ocr) they can be extremely lenient in grade boundaries. I think like 27 is a pass and most colleges was like 5s,6s,7s but yeah I think you need to try a few more lessons of computer science before you say its not for you because I hated it at first but now it's hands down one of my easiest lessons. I don't necessarily think I could of got the sme from watching a YouTube video but rhats just my personal experience.

For geography, it's a bit of a jump from ks3 to. Gcse so thr way you like it then may not be what your even doing for gcse.espdcially if one of your reasons for doing it is based off what you have seen which has been filmed/,made up by
Personally do remember have alot to say about geography I'm surre if u search gcse geography on tsr with your exam bored some stories will come up.

Hope this helps 🙏🏾

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xThanika

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I did geography at GCSE (AQA) and can tell you a little about it.

There is a lot to memorise in terms on content and case studies, specially for the first 2 papers and they usually require the most amount of marks (9 markers). Additionally, the grade boundaries can be quite high too.

It can be also a 'boring' subject (loads of people regretted picking it at my school) however that can be different from person to person. I personally found the subject slightly hard and didn't get good grades in my mocks but in the actual GCSE I doubled my mock grades and achieved higher than I did in any other previous geography assessment. I would also say you could easily catch up on it too if you are behind which is what I would do.

Overall, it really just depends on what you will find interesting as you will be doing it for 2 years and do not want to be bored in lesson as you more than likely won't pay attention.

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