I didn’t do GCSEs… I went to school and university in Scotland. In Year 5 at secondary school, I decided I wanted to go to university and applied to a number in Scotland through UCCA (now UCAS). I needed to get 5 B grade Highers to get in. I got 5 A grade Highers in Chemistry, Physics, Maths, English and History. I left for university at the end of 5th year and didn’t do any sixth form!
I did double science, double english and Maths as a requirements.
I also did History, Business Studies and French.
I must have done more because I definitely did 10 but those are the subjects I remember.
At every point in my educational journey, I chose the subjects I was most interested in. I guess I just figured you’ve got to be interested in something, otherwise you’ll never engage with it and learn. However, it does have its downsides and I realised you probably need to think about your long term goals as well. For example, my A levels were chemistry, media studies and psychology. I really didn’t know where my career was going! When I came to apply for university, only a limited number of universities would accept me without another science subject, or at least AS level maths. Fortunately it worked out well for me, but its definitely worth planning ahead if you can.
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Martin commented on :
I didn’t do GCSEs… I went to school and university in Scotland. In Year 5 at secondary school, I decided I wanted to go to university and applied to a number in Scotland through UCCA (now UCAS). I needed to get 5 B grade Highers to get in. I got 5 A grade Highers in Chemistry, Physics, Maths, English and History. I left for university at the end of 5th year and didn’t do any sixth form!
Thomas commented on :
I did double science, double english and Maths as a requirements.
I also did History, Business Studies and French.
I must have done more because I definitely did 10 but those are the subjects I remember.
Claire commented on :
At every point in my educational journey, I chose the subjects I was most interested in. I guess I just figured you’ve got to be interested in something, otherwise you’ll never engage with it and learn. However, it does have its downsides and I realised you probably need to think about your long term goals as well. For example, my A levels were chemistry, media studies and psychology. I really didn’t know where my career was going! When I came to apply for university, only a limited number of universities would accept me without another science subject, or at least AS level maths. Fortunately it worked out well for me, but its definitely worth planning ahead if you can.
Alana commented on :
I did double science, double English, Maths and RE as they were the ones we had to do and I picked French, German, PE and Graphics as my options.
For AS-levels, I picked Chemistry, Maths, Biology, English Literature and Drama (and then dropped English and Drama in my A-Level year).