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Triple science wasn't offered at my school, but if it was, there's no way I would have done it- double was enough for me! If you really like science, you're good at it and you think you might want to do one or more sciences at A-level, go for it. One language would be enough. On the other hand, if you're not that interested in science and you like languages, go for Spanish. I can understand you not liking orals- not many people do- but the GCSE one is really not that bad. I was dreading it and I thought I'd be too nervous to do well, but I was fine, and it's only 25% of the overall mark.

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Double science is alright. A-level science courses want double award science or triple science subject anyway, no need to worry.

If you really want to do triple science, you could talk to the teacher about it.

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r0manticide17

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isabella19

I handed my gcse choices in as doing french, spanish, history, geography and double science. I think I now want to do triple science and skip on spanish though. What put me off doing triple science was my test results. They were ok, but below average and that really put me off it. I just had a Chemistry test though and I revised well for it and actually thought about the different theories rather than just trying to memorise facts and I found the test quite easy, and it should turn out ok.

I much prefer revising for science than languages, so would it be a better idea to switch to triple, especially as I don't like language orals?

Put it this way. Will you be doing A level science? Can you cope with lots of extra work? If so, go for it. At my school they choose for you and you get an invitation to seperate science. It is very beneficial and although it is sometimes hard, it works out fine in the end. As for A levels, if you take A level sciences you are further ahead than most students since you tend to go into the AS syllabus. Well, we did
But dont do it if youre not very good at science or dont enjoy it. Its a long hard journey! But dont let that put you off. If you can get your head around the seperate bits, youll be fine. Its great fun too! Especially Logic Gates in Physics!!

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No Future

Personally, I am so so glad I did triple science. I think, out of all the options I had, it offered me the least amount of work/effort. For example, with triple, you just learn all the double stuff plus a few extra topics in each science - well worth a whole extra GCSE IMHO. If you did a language, it'd be much more work than just a few extra topics in science. However, French and Spanish are good subjects, relatively easy and quite useful. Maybe I'm biased, but I think science is rather highly regarded too. But, at this stage it might be better to stay with what you've done already - why let all that time learning Spanish go to waste?

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No Future

Personally, I am so so glad I did triple science. I think, out of all the options I had, it offered me the least amount of work/effort. For example, with triple, you just learn all the double stuff plus a few extra topics in each science - well worth a whole extra GCSE IMHO. If you did a language, it'd be much more work than just a few extra topics in science. However, French and Spanish are good subjects, relatively easy and quite useful. Maybe I'm biased, but I think science is rather highly regarded too. But, at this stage it might be better to stay with what you've done already - why let all that time learning Spanish go to waste?

Also, when you do triple science, you get to have 3 more GCSE's. So if you don't do well in others, you have the 3 science's to back you up.

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stratomaster

What is triple science gcse?

Is it 3 seperate gcse's (bio cem and phy) or is it one whole qualification... like i did Double award science which is one qualification but counts for 2 gcse's...

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Alcohol5%

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Tbh, the depth that you go to at GCSE science is minimal, so don't worry about doing triple is you think you might want to do science a levels.

I did double science, got A*A* and am now doing Physics and Chemistry at AS level and will definately be taking them to A2. I have not foung not doing triple science a hinderence in anyway. Ofcourse triple science will do more, but at A level they still teach everything you need...

I'd say go with double, it's less work. I just dossed

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stratomaster

What is triple science gcse?

Is it 3 seperate gcse's (bio cem and phy) or is it one whole qualification... like i did Double award science which is one qualification but counts for 2 gcse's...

They are seperate qualifications - bio, chem, and phys)

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kellywood_5

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They are seperate qualifications - bio, chem, and phys)

You can get one that's just one qualification as well, ie science, but worth 3 GCSEs, like the double is worth 2.

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kellywood_5

You can get one that's just one qualification as well, ie science, but worth 3 GCSEs, like the double is worth 2.

For us, most students who do triple science, put them seperately on their UCAS form. :confused:

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kellywood_5

trev

For us, most students who do triple science, put them seperately on their UCAS form. :confused:

As far as I know, you can either do triple science, where all your grades would be the same, ie BBB, or biology, chemistry and physics as 3 separate GCSEs. My school only offers double though.

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