• Question: What did you take for your GCSEs?

    Asked by anon-223736 to Valerio, Sreejita, Sam, Kate, Anastasia, Adam on 18 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by anon-223756.
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      Kate Winfield answered on 18 Nov 2019:

      I ended up taking GCSE’s in Maths, Chemistry, Science, English Language, English Literature, Geography, Music, ICT, Food technology, French, RE. If you are trying to pick your GCSE’s I would recommend taking subjects that you are interested in as you are more likely to engage with the subject and learning, gaining better marks. Also look at what will be most useful for what you would like to do in the future. I would recommend taking STEM subjects such as Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Computer Science etc. There are increasingly more jobs which are in high tech industry, with information technology and some forms of scientific research. But overall my best advice is to take the subjects you are interested in, I didn’t do very well in the subjects I hated. Make sure the decision is best for you.

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      Sreejita Ghosh answered on 18 Nov 2019:

      For my GCSE equivalent I had Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Computer applications/ computing science, English Language, English Literature, Bengali (my 2nd language), Geography, and History.

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      Anastasia Aliferi answered on 19 Nov 2019:

      I didn’t take GCSE’s because I grew up in Greece and we don’t have them there. We do have something similar though where you have to choose a ‘package’ of subjects depending on what you’re planning to do next. My package was maths, chemistry, biology, physics and Greek language.

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      Adam Wootton answered on 19 Nov 2019:

      I took:
      English Literature
      English Language
      Double Science
      Maths
      GNVQ ICT
      Religious Studies
      History
      Geography
      .
      All of that was worth 12 GCSEs in total.

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