What's your biggest gripe(s) in the subjects you're studying?
I'll start. In AQA's Psychology course (both GCSE and apparently A-Level), you are expected to learn the two major variants of depression.
The first is unipolar depression, which is described as almost exclusively experiencing depressive episodes; and bipolar depression, which is described as experiencing both depressive or manic (extremely happy) episodes.
The thing is... bipolar depression is not actually called bipolar depression. It's bipolar DISORDER. And the depressive episode in bipolar disorder is called bipolar DEPRESSION. Yep! Bipolar depression is a COMPONENT of bipolar disorder, not bipolar disorder itself.
Yet, AQA and sources that rely on AQA continue to call bipolar disorder... bipolar d e p r e s s i o n.
Maybe it's because it's more neatly aligned with the correctly identified unipolar depression, but even so, you CAN'T UNOFFICIALLY BEND THE NAME OF A WELL-KNOWN CONDITION JUST BECAUSE THE NAME YOU CAME UP WITH LOOKS PRETTIER!! Even the ICD, the International Classification of Diseases, calls it bipolar disorder!!
It's probably a small thing to get mad over, but like... it's going to be very confusing for those who want to dive deeper into psychology. At what point do they finally call bipolar disorder by its proper name? Uni?
The first is unipolar depression, which is described as almost exclusively experiencing depressive episodes; and bipolar depression, which is described as experiencing both depressive or manic (extremely happy) episodes.
The thing is... bipolar depression is not actually called bipolar depression. It's bipolar DISORDER. And the depressive episode in bipolar disorder is called bipolar DEPRESSION. Yep! Bipolar depression is a COMPONENT of bipolar disorder, not bipolar disorder itself.
Yet, AQA and sources that rely on AQA continue to call bipolar disorder... bipolar d e p r e s s i o n.
Maybe it's because it's more neatly aligned with the correctly identified unipolar depression, but even so, you CAN'T UNOFFICIALLY BEND THE NAME OF A WELL-KNOWN CONDITION JUST BECAUSE THE NAME YOU CAME UP WITH LOOKS PRETTIER!! Even the ICD, the International Classification of Diseases, calls it bipolar disorder!!
It's probably a small thing to get mad over, but like... it's going to be very confusing for those who want to dive deeper into psychology. At what point do they finally call bipolar disorder by its proper name? Uni?
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by fenyxperytonI'll start. In AQA's Psychology course (both GCSE and apparently A-Level), you are expected to learn the two major variants of depression.
The first is unipolar depression, which is described as almost exclusively experiencing depressive episodes; and bipolar depression, which is described as experiencing both depressive or manic (extremely happy) episodes.
The thing is... bipolar depression is not actually called bipolar depression. It's bipolar DISORDER. And the depressive episode in bipolar disorder is called bipolar DEPRESSION. Yep! Bipolar depression is a COMPONENT of bipolar disorder, not bipolar disorder itself.
Yet, AQA and sources that rely on AQA continue to call bipolar disorder... bipolar d e p r e s s i o n.
Maybe it's because it's more neatly aligned with the correctly identified unipolar depression, but even so, you CAN'T UNOFFICIALLY BEND THE NAME OF A WELL-KNOWN CONDITION JUST BECAUSE THE NAME YOU CAME UP WITH LOOKS PRETTIER!! Even the ICD, the International Classification of Diseases, calls it bipolar disorder!!
It's probably a small thing to get mad over, but like... it's going to be very confusing for those who want to dive deeper into psychology. At what point do they finally call bipolar disorder by its proper name? Uni?
The first is unipolar depression, which is described as almost exclusively experiencing depressive episodes; and bipolar depression, which is described as experiencing both depressive or manic (extremely happy) episodes.
The thing is... bipolar depression is not actually called bipolar depression. It's bipolar DISORDER. And the depressive episode in bipolar disorder is called bipolar DEPRESSION. Yep! Bipolar depression is a COMPONENT of bipolar disorder, not bipolar disorder itself.
Yet, AQA and sources that rely on AQA continue to call bipolar disorder... bipolar d e p r e s s i o n.
Maybe it's because it's more neatly aligned with the correctly identified unipolar depression, but even so, you CAN'T UNOFFICIALLY BEND THE NAME OF A WELL-KNOWN CONDITION JUST BECAUSE THE NAME YOU CAME UP WITH LOOKS PRETTIER!! Even the ICD, the International Classification of Diseases, calls it bipolar disorder!!
It's probably a small thing to get mad over, but like... it's going to be very confusing for those who want to dive deeper into psychology. At what point do they finally call bipolar disorder by its proper name? Uni?
HEY DIV(a)!
I'm not going to lie, I still can't wrap my head around what you have just said
ANYWAY, for computer science I HATE that you have to get ALL of the syntax that you WRITE out for your code. Like your algorithm could be ASBOLUTELY FLAWLESS and you forget a speech mark = marks down the drain. Like WHAT. Also WRITE? WRITE?
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by 53411HEY DIV(a)!
I'm not going to lie, I still can't wrap my head around what you have just said
ANYWAY, for computer science I HATE that you have to get ALL of the syntax that you WRITE out for your code. Like your algorithm could be ASBOLUTELY FLAWLESS and you forget a speech mark = marks down the drain. Like WHAT. Also WRITE? WRITE?
I'm not going to lie, I still can't wrap my head around what you have just said
ANYWAY, for computer science I HATE that you have to get ALL of the syntax that you WRITE out for your code. Like your algorithm could be ASBOLUTELY FLAWLESS and you forget a speech mark = marks down the drain. Like WHAT. Also WRITE? WRITE?
OOOOF I dropped IT as a GCSE but I can still feel the pain from this
Yeah, it may be a bit too much so here’s how I’ll break it down
Unipolar depression = All sad
Bipolar disorder = Mood shifts
Bipolar depression = The sadness in Bipolar Disorder, NOT the entire disorder itself
What AQA calls Bipolar Disorder: Bipolar depression
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by fenyxperytonOOOOF I dropped IT as a GCSE but I can still feel the pain from this
Yeah, it may be a bit too much so here’s how I’ll break it down
Unipolar depression = All sad
Bipolar disorder = Mood shifts
Bipolar depression = The sadness in Bipolar Disorder, NOT the entire disorder itself
What AQA calls Bipolar Disorder: Bipolar depression
Yeah, it may be a bit too much so here’s how I’ll break it down
Unipolar depression = All sad
Bipolar disorder = Mood shifts
Bipolar depression = The sadness in Bipolar Disorder, NOT the entire disorder itself
What AQA calls Bipolar Disorder: Bipolar depression
What about depression as a symptom of ADHD?
It is not completely identical to either of them.
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by Kathy89What about depression as a symptom of ADHD?
It is not completely identical to either of them.
It is not completely identical to either of them.
I don’t exactly know (AQA GCSE only goes as far as two types unfortunately), but I’m aware of co-morbid mental health issues, where you can get some disorders that are intertwined with each other, such as PTSD and anxiety.
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by fenyxperytonI don’t exactly know (AQA GCSE only goes as far as two types unfortunately), but I’m aware of co-morbid mental health issues, where you can get some disorders that are intertwined with each other, such as PTSD and anxiety.
Basically they refer to psychiatrists to get meds. They don't even diagnose it very often, usually just say it is depression and that's it.
ADHD is more complexed than many think.
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by Kathy89I'm just being annoying... Even professional psychologists don't know how to treat it. 😄
Basically they refer to psychiatrists to get meds. They don't even diagnose it very often, usually just say it is depression and that's it.
ADHD is more complexed than many think.
Basically they refer to psychiatrists to get meds. They don't even diagnose it very often, usually just say it is depression and that's it.
ADHD is more complexed than many think.
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I had complaints about every subject I learned at school, especially those I was good at.
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by Kathy89I had complaints about every subject I learned at school, especially those I was good at.
Oooh like what? :0
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by fenyxperytonOooh like what? :0
Everything was boring...
Physics. Why learning optics first and only then kinematics, kinematics is the basic of everything in physics...
English. Why picking up only the boring stories to study?!
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by Kathy89Everything was boring...
Physics. Why learning optics first and only then kinematics, kinematics is the basic of everything in physics...
English. Why picking up only the boring stories to study?!
Physics. Why learning optics first and only then kinematics, kinematics is the basic of everything in physics...
English. Why picking up only the boring stories to study?!
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by fenyxperytonKinematics… kine is like kinetic, right? And what do you exactly mean by boring stories?
Kinematics is physics of motion.
We learned "All My Sons" .... It is foreign literature in a foreign language for us but still, this is the main thing they picked for us?!
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by fenyxperytonOOOOF I dropped IT as a GCSE but I can still feel the pain from this
Yeah, it may be a bit too much so here’s how I’ll break it down
Unipolar depression = All sad
Bipolar disorder = Mood shifts
Bipolar depression = The sadness in Bipolar Disorder, NOT the entire disorder itself
What AQA calls Bipolar Disorder: Bipolar depression
Yeah, it may be a bit too much so here’s how I’ll break it down
Unipolar depression = All sad
Bipolar disorder = Mood shifts
Bipolar depression = The sadness in Bipolar Disorder, NOT the entire disorder itself
What AQA calls Bipolar Disorder: Bipolar depression
Okay now that I understand it, why? That IS so bliddy infuriating. I lowkey have no idea how you're coping. I would've punched the exam board members ATP.
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by Kathy89Kinematics is physics of motion.
We learned "All My Sons" .... It is foreign literature in a foreign language for us but still, this is the main thing they picked for us?!
We learned "All My Sons" .... It is foreign literature in a foreign language for us but still, this is the main thing they picked for us?!
Oof X/ I’m pretty sure we also learn another Arthur Miller (A View from the Bridge) and honestly I have no idea why’s he’s so acclaimed
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by 53411Okay now that I understand it, why? That IS so bliddy infuriating. I lowkey have no idea how you're coping. I would've punched the exam board members ATP.
Yeah it has got me questioning how accurate AQA can be… like in the official books, they misspell important psychologists’ names (forgot which ones but it’s still very annoying)
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French: The fact that words are pronounced exactly the same but are spelt differently .
I’ve simply started to use text to speech and pray that it works.
.I’ve simply started to use text to speech and pray that it works.
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I’m currently doing an undergrad degree in chemistry, which I’m very much enjoying, but (in my opinion) all GCSE and A level qualifications suck in their own special ways and could do with some updating. I could write a book for each subject, so I’ll focus on chemistry here.
As enjoyable as chemistry can be (especially with all the practicals), both the GCSE and A level syllabi are less than brilliant. I personally feel that too much theory is introduced too early on and with far too little context. This leads to oversimplifications and outright lies being taught as fact, which in my view is utterly unacceptable.
Chemistry should really be introduced at GCSE as exciting and relevant, without overdoing the theory. I’d like to see more links to how it is useful in daily life and how one should safely handle chemicals, After all, chemistry is often (wrongly) dismissed as too deeply theoretical to be of any actual use and there are plenty of horror stories about people mixing household chemicals they shouldn’t or unintentionally harming themselves with household chemicals from careless handling.
At A level, I feel it is more appropriate to introduce more of the theory. To an extent, the current qualifications deliver on that, but certain things are given too little in the way of context and this causes confusion. For example, what the hell is the statement “d orbitals in a transition metal element split in energy” meant to mean to a student who has not done crystal field theory (a topic beyond the A level syllabus)? This renders much of the subject to just accepting stuff as fact without even attempting to actually understand it, which is surely antithetical to what it means to be a scientist.
A number of outright lies are also taught as fact. One example (at A level) is which halogenoalkanes are able to undergo nucleophilic substitution. Most exam boards say 1° and 2° halogenoalkanes are the only substrates that can undergo nucleophilic substitution and that 3° halogenoalkanes and aryl halides cannot. The SN1 and SNAr mechanisms for nucleophilic substitution are perfectly well documented in addition to the SN2 mechanism that is shown at A level.
As enjoyable as chemistry can be (especially with all the practicals), both the GCSE and A level syllabi are less than brilliant. I personally feel that too much theory is introduced too early on and with far too little context. This leads to oversimplifications and outright lies being taught as fact, which in my view is utterly unacceptable.
Chemistry should really be introduced at GCSE as exciting and relevant, without overdoing the theory. I’d like to see more links to how it is useful in daily life and how one should safely handle chemicals, After all, chemistry is often (wrongly) dismissed as too deeply theoretical to be of any actual use and there are plenty of horror stories about people mixing household chemicals they shouldn’t or unintentionally harming themselves with household chemicals from careless handling.
At A level, I feel it is more appropriate to introduce more of the theory. To an extent, the current qualifications deliver on that, but certain things are given too little in the way of context and this causes confusion. For example, what the hell is the statement “d orbitals in a transition metal element split in energy” meant to mean to a student who has not done crystal field theory (a topic beyond the A level syllabus)? This renders much of the subject to just accepting stuff as fact without even attempting to actually understand it, which is surely antithetical to what it means to be a scientist.
A number of outright lies are also taught as fact. One example (at A level) is which halogenoalkanes are able to undergo nucleophilic substitution. Most exam boards say 1° and 2° halogenoalkanes are the only substrates that can undergo nucleophilic substitution and that 3° halogenoalkanes and aryl halides cannot. The SN1 and SNAr mechanisms for nucleophilic substitution are perfectly well documented in addition to the SN2 mechanism that is shown at A level.
Ancient Worlds - having to use SBL referencing for any modules from the divinity department, a varient of Harvard for any modules from the Classics department, and a different varient of Harvard for any modules from the archaeology department 😑
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I dislike that i have to write essays of around 2.5-3 pages worth only 9 marks in 15 minutes (including planning time) for env sci. I feel like they should be worth so many more marks (its pretty similar in structure to history gcse essays worth twice the marks!)
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Oh yeah and the GCSE MFL syllabus is simply crap in general lol.
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by TypicalNerdAs enjoyable as chemistry can be (especially with all the practicals), both the GCSE and A level syllabi are less than brilliant. I personally feel that too much theory is introduced too early on and with far too little context. This leads to oversimplifications and outright lies being taught as fact, which in my view is utterly unacceptable.
Can be said about any scientific subject.
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