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kellywood_5

I curse the repetitiveness and lack of originality in history specifications! :mad:

I did OCR for GCSE and the main topic was Germany. I'm now with Edexcel for A-level and half of it (1 AS unit and 2 A2 units) are on- guess what- Germany! I'll be so sick of it by the time I get to A2!

Oh, and about French having the biggest gap- yeah, it is big, but my school's just a below average comprehensive and I got an A* at GCSE, got an A in an AS listening paper we've just done :biggrin:

So if you want to do it, do it!

And Vivianna- I'm considering applying to Cambridge with my 'mediocre' GCSE grades, so I don't think you should be worrying about it!

My school follows Edexcel for History too. My friends are doing A2 at the moment and learning about Ireland and Germany (I think). My friends hate Ireland so much, lol.

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Vivianna

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trev

My school follows Edexcel for History too. My friends are doing A2 at the moment and learning about Ireland and Germany (I think). My friends hate Ireland so much, lol.

Yes i'm taking the OCR GCSE to Edexcel AS history route, too much Germany for my tastes.

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JohnW

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I like opening envelopes :biggrin:

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dappleddawndrawndauphin

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kellywood_5

I curse the repetitiveness and lack of originality in history specifications! :mad:

I did OCR for GCSE and the main topic was Germany. I'm now with Edexcel for A-level and half of it (1 AS unit and 2 A2 units) are on- guess what- Germany! I'll be so sick of it by the time I get to A2!

Oh, and about French having the biggest gap- yeah, it is big, but my school's just a below average comprehensive and I got an A* at GCSE, got an A in an AS listening paper we've just done :biggrin:

So if you want to do it, do it!

And Vivianna- I'm considering applying to Cambridge with my 'mediocre' GCSE grades, so I don't think you should be worrying about it!

Yep so do I... it's really very frustrating :mad:

i mean yeah, it makes the exam easier - but I want to learn some *new* (haha) history!!

Yep that's the thing - if you're really good at French you'll cope with it fine! It's people who get an A* in it through pure slog/fluke without being genuinely interested in it, then think "well hey i got an A*, I'll do it for AS" who have a big shock. I second that - French is my worst subject and i got an A in the mock, so don't listen to my off-putting descriptions of its difficulty *too* much! The reason I get freaked out, tbh, is because I hate the orals so much... that could pull me down :frown:

your GCSEs aren't mediocre - they'd be good wherever you went to school, but as you were joint second in your school it shows that you can do really well even in a place where for whatever reasons the majority underachieves :biggrin:

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dappleddawndrawndauphin

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JohnW

I like opening envelopes :biggrin:

lol