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over a year ago
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I've just come back from a big assembly and a series of parents/teacher meetings for the big one as he is picking his options soon for the subjects to study at GCSE.
What options did everyone pick at school and with hindsight or the benefit of experience would you pick the same or differently? |
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By *TG3Man
over a year ago
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"I've just come back from a big assembly and a series of parents/teacher meetings for the big one as he is picking his options soon for the subjects to study at GCSE.
What options did everyone pick at school and with hindsight or the benefit of experience would you pick the same or differently? "
i picked law and psychology i wish I'd picked Art  |
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On top of the mandatory ones (RE was at our school!), I took extra Science, History, Spanish and German. We had to choose one D/T subject too.
I wanted to do Geology like Mr but it clashed with Spanish. That's my only regret. I wouldn't have dropped Spanish for all the world but wish Geology would have fitted in somewhere. |
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Pick whatever he enjoys because it's what he does next that will actually carve out any career path and even then he can change it later on. As long as he gets English, Maths and Science it doesn't really matter what the others are. But if he enjoys them he's likely to do better at them. |
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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago
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"Wish my school had done weapons training and benefit fraud, y’know useful stuff for modern Britain. "
Yeah I can just imagine a bunch of 15 year olds running around with rocket launchers - it would make for an exciting afternoon! |
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Options were limited in my East Belfast school.
No such thing as a level classes more spirit level classes.
I'm considered one of my schools success stories!
I learned how to fight, roll.a joint and sing the sash on command |
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"Wish my school had done weapons training and benefit fraud, y’know useful stuff for modern Britain.
Yeah I can just imagine a bunch of 15 year olds running around with rocket launchers - it would make for an exciting afternoon! "
Sounds about fair for Yr9 in the final slot on a Friday, if you speak to my secondary school teacher friends! |
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I changed schools just after picking my options.
My dad split up with one of his girlfriends and I ended up going to a shit school.
All of my options that I picked I couldn't do and ended up having to do one's that had space's available.
I didn't go to school much after that! |
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In retrospect the wrong ones. I picked mainly art subjects such as Art and Design, and Music, as I was quite creative growing up. However, they didn't really lead anywhere, so I feel taking on History as GCSE would have given me a much bigger understanding and appreciation for all that's come before us. Sure, I can play piano and guitar, but music GCSE didn't attribute anything to that.
Languages was a separate choice, between French and German. I chose French as I was actually very good at it, getting an A in my GCSEs.
If I could go back , i definitely would have kept Art as I feel kids need a creative outlet In school to express their individuality, but I would have changed Music for History. |
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"Xenobiology, Temporal Mechanics, Fractal Calculus, Stellar Cartography, Warp Field Design and needle work.
It was hard work but I managed to cling on and now I have my own Enterprise."
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"I've just come back from a big assembly and a series of parents/teacher meetings for the big one as he is picking his options soon for the subjects to study at GCSE.
What options did everyone pick at school and with hindsight or the benefit of experience would you pick the same or differently? "
It literally makes no difference, as long as they get good grades, vast majority of folks in furthe education either change subjects or quits! Try to do something that you enjoy would be my advuce |
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I wish I’d taken something like politics and a modern foreign language at a level instead of maths and art. I ended up eventually going into art history, but that was made more challenging as I failed both art and maths at school. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Pick whatever he enjoys because it's what he does next that will actually carve out any career path and even then he can change it later on. As long as he gets English, Maths and Science it doesn't really matter what the others are. But if he enjoys them he's likely to do better at them. "
He intends to. He has an idea of what he wants to do when he gets older, so is picking things that will help him that way, they coincidentally are subjects he enjoys and he is better at  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I wish I’d taken Spanish.
I would have been just as useless at that as the other languages I took, but I might have enjoyed it more.
Wish I’d taken Photography too. "
We had french or German as choices when I was at school. I hated french, so I picked German as default. Id have loved to have learned Italian though. My son has an option for photography, I wish we had that option. It was either art, DT or food :/ |
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"Wish my school had done weapons training and benefit fraud, y’know useful stuff for modern Britain.
Yeah I can just imagine a bunch of 15 year olds running around with rocket launchers - it would make for an exciting afternoon! "
Ha! Imagine the paperwork with that one! |
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"Pick whatever he enjoys because it's what he does next that will actually carve out any career path and even then he can change it later on. As long as he gets English, Maths and Science it doesn't really matter what the others are. But if he enjoys them he's likely to do better at them. "
Exactly this, ultimately it doesn't really matter. What he enjoys is best bc there's enough he probably isn't so keen on in the core subjects!
At GCSE and even ALEVEL mine were all humanities. But I did an MSc even though my last interaction with Science was a GCSE, even then I was distinctly average at it. Not going down a Science party previously wasn't limiting at all.
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"Wish my school had done weapons training and benefit fraud, y’know useful stuff for modern Britain.
Yeah I can just imagine a bunch of 15 year olds running around with rocket launchers - it would make for an exciting afternoon! "
That was Army cadets. there was no exam, only survival and a rank |
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"Xenobiology, Temporal Mechanics, Fractal Calculus, Stellar Cartography, Warp Field Design and needle work.
It was hard work but I managed to cling on and now I have my own Enterprise.
Make it sew !! "
Fuck me
That was good |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I would have not bothered to make any effort whatsoever with school considering what happened just before my GCSE's that fucked everything up completely on so many levels.
And no one did anything after that meant I could claw back what I got screwed on.
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"Xenobiology, Temporal Mechanics, Fractal Calculus, Stellar Cartography, Warp Field Design and needle work.
It was hard work but I managed to cling on and now I have my own Enterprise.
Make it sew !!
Fuck me
That was good "
Why thank you  I may not be pretty but I am funny  |
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Economics, Music, English Literature.
But considering that three hours ago a lad tried to snatch my phone on a high street, I’d be grateful that a person was considering any education rather than a life of crime. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Economics, Music, English Literature.
But considering that three hours ago a lad tried to snatch my phone on a high street, I’d be grateful that a person was considering any education rather than a life of crime. "
Omg! Are you ok? |
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"Xenobiology, Temporal Mechanics, Fractal Calculus, Stellar Cartography, Warp Field Design and needle work.
It was hard work but I managed to cling on and now I have my own Enterprise.
Make it sew !!
Fuck me
That was good
Why thank you I may not be pretty but I am funny "
That was really good, and you are pretty, and a lot of other things that are massively appealing.
I'd be working on making you one of my two if your/my circumstances and objectives were different.
Not that I expect you to be flattered by that statement, because I may not be your type.
But I am very fucking fussy, and anyone I like as much as you has to have something very special going on.
Which you do.
So I hope you can take the compliment K x
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"Xenobiology, Temporal Mechanics, Fractal Calculus, Stellar Cartography, Warp Field Design and needle work.
It was hard work but I managed to cling on and now I have my own Enterprise.
Make it sew !!
Fuck me
That was good
Why thank you I may not be pretty but I am funny
That was really good, and you are pretty, and a lot of other things that are massively appealing.
I'd be working on making you one of my two if your/my circumstances and objectives were different.
Not that I expect you to be flattered by that statement, because I may not be your type.
But I am very fucking fussy, and anyone I like as much as you has to have something very special going on.
Which you do.
So I hope you can take the compliment K x
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Compliment accepted thank you,  a thoroughly lovely compliment  |
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"Xenobiology, Temporal Mechanics, Fractal Calculus, Stellar Cartography, Warp Field Design and needle work.
It was hard work but I managed to cling on and now I have my own Enterprise.
Make it sew !!
Fuck me
That was good
Why thank you I may not be pretty but I am funny
That was really good, and you are pretty, and a lot of other things that are massively appealing.
I'd be working on making you one of my two if your/my circumstances and objectives were different.
Not that I expect you to be flattered by that statement, because I may not be your type.
But I am very fucking fussy, and anyone I like as much as you has to have something very special going on.
Which you do.
So I hope you can take the compliment K x
Compliment accepted thank you, a thoroughly lovely compliment "
You're very welcome x |
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My career post-graduation was not at all related to my subject and hence not to my O and A levels, so it probably wouldn't have mattered what I took, but my interest in history sparked at school is still with me - and passed on to my elder daughter who writes historical novels |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I've just come back from a big assembly and a series of parents/teacher meetings for the big one as he is picking his options soon for the subjects to study at GCSE.
What options did everyone pick at school and with hindsight or the benefit of experience would you pick the same or differently? "
Given a choice, I'd pick:
Pure Maths and Additional maths
French
Physics as part of triple sciences.
Computer Science
But truthfully, it really doesn't matter for university/apprenticeships so long as he gets great grades in all - so pick the ones he's most successful at. Ultimately it'll be his A-level grades that matter most, and it's those Alevel choices that matter most |
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By *agondaMan
over a year ago
Witterings |
"On top of the mandatory ones (RE was at our school!), I took extra Science, History, Spanish and German. We had to choose one D/T subject too.
I wanted to do Geology like Mr but it clashed with Spanish. That's my only regret. I wouldn't have dropped Spanish for all the world but wish Geology would have fitted in somewhere."
I did Geology and I agree, it was seismic |
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"On top of the mandatory ones (RE was at our school!), I took extra Science, History, Spanish and German. We had to choose one D/T subject too.
I wanted to do Geology like Mr but it clashed with Spanish. That's my only regret. I wouldn't have dropped Spanish for all the world but wish Geology would have fitted in somewhere.
I did Geology and I agree, it was seismic"
You rock ! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I did History, Geography, and Punjabi. I'm lucky IT was mandatory as I probably never would've picked it and would have no idea where my career would be now. I wish I hadn't done a language and done something like Business Studies or Psychology instead. |
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I wish I knew then that GCSEs mean nothing in the grand scheme of things.
On top of the core subjects I did French, IT, history, physics and graphics - I should have chosen subjects I really enjoyed.
A levels were a tragedy for me |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I wish I knew then that GCSEs mean nothing in the grand scheme of things.
On top of the core subjects I did French, IT, history, physics and graphics - I should have chosen subjects I really enjoyed.
A levels were a tragedy for me "
Same! I really struggled with the jump to A-levels but glad I did, otherwise I would've gone to Uni and probably spun my wheels as I never knew what I wanted to do. The apprenticeship I did was far better for me. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Was happy with my choices… geography history and economics…. I’ve always been good at knowing where it happened when it hoped and how much it cost ….. sadly as you may guess my school never did humour at o level . |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Pick whatever he enjoys because it's what he does next that will actually carve out any career path and even then he can change it later on. As long as he gets English, Maths and Science it doesn't really matter what the others are. But if he enjoys them he's likely to do better at them. "
This.
I picked geography and art because I enjoyed them and liked the teachers, so they were easy. |
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"I wish I knew then that GCSEs mean nothing in the grand scheme of things.
On top of the core subjects I did French, IT, history, physics and graphics - I should have chosen subjects I really enjoyed.
A levels were a tragedy for me
Same! I really struggled with the jump to A-levels but glad I did, otherwise I would've gone to Uni and probably spun my wheels as I never knew what I wanted to do. The apprenticeship I did was far better for me."
100% I knew uni wasn’t for me so lost the will to live and dropped them |
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"On top of the mandatory ones (RE was at our school!), I took extra Science, History, Spanish and German. We had to choose one D/T subject too.
I wanted to do Geology like Mr but it clashed with Spanish. That's my only regret. I wouldn't have dropped Spanish for all the world but wish Geology would have fitted in somewhere.
I did Geology and I agree, it was seismic"
It's the only GCSE subject that studies cleavage  |
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"I've just come back from a big assembly and a series of parents/teacher meetings for the big one as he is picking his options soon for the subjects to study at GCSE.
What options did everyone pick at school and with hindsight or the benefit of experience would you pick the same or differently? "
Good luck to your boy! It's a lot of pressure trying to choose, it can be a minefield. What does he want to do as a career?
I did the minimum, Maths, English and the Sciences. Also did History
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I was diagnosed as an adult with adhd. That's explains every parents even.
"Shawn is such a smart boy but he can't pass exams, must study harder"
Truth is I coukd barely get through a page of a textbook without losing interest. However I code write machine code and program in basic at 8 years old on my spectrum. Even crashed my schools computer network just to see if I could do it. |
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By *adgerMan
over a year ago
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"On top of the mandatory ones (RE was at our school!), I took extra Science, History, Spanish and German. We had to choose one D/T subject too.
I wanted to do Geology like Mr but it clashed with Spanish. That's my only regret. I wouldn't have dropped Spanish for all the world but wish Geology would have fitted in somewhere."
You should have done geology! I now have a hobby that pays |
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By *adgerMan
over a year ago
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What is this GCSE?
As others have said go for the ones they enjoy and it’s the A levels that are more important if uni matters and it’s a course requirement
At A level I did maths political history and geography… the last too based on enjoyment the first at Dads insistence.. dropped history after a year switched to geology and never looked back! |
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By *assy69Man
over a year ago
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"I've just come back from a big assembly and a series of parents/teacher meetings for the big one as he is picking his options soon for the subjects to study at GCSE.
What options did everyone pick at school and with hindsight or the benefit of experience would you pick the same or differently? "
Did history, physics, biology, German, woodwork and metalwork……. Long before GCSE’s existed, had no idea of what I wanted to do with my life then so just picked subjects I enjoyed and have a little variety to my days. Would I choose them again? Undoubtedly not, only the history course proved to be of any use when I did eventually decide what I wanted to do, and that impact was only really minimal |
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