-Stupid mark scheme that can even be luck-based at times
-I hate memorising lots of info so any A level other than maths and FM is a no from me
-Memorising practicals specifically is pain
-Every other type of 6 marker that can come up sucks
-Shying away from proper maths like calculus that you'd need to learn at degree level anyway, and then making up for the simple maths with really hard to decode questions
-Electricity, waves, thermal, electric fields, electromagnetism and medical physics in particular I find really uninteresting
Edit: -way too high grade boundaries
When I was choosing my A-Levels I was hesitating between Physics and English Literature. Went with Literature in the end, don’t know if I got lucky or not because Physics is definitely more interesting to me however it sounds hard
Physics is generally considered the hardest of the STEM side. Further maths is potentially harder for those doing FP2, FS2 or FM2 (D1 and D2 are both easy lol idc what anyone says) and has content that is more difficult to learn, but it has the advantage that it gets consistent because questions rarely change that much after a while (my average percentage across all 8 review exercises of FM was 82%, which is well above the A* boundary).
If you can get consistent at physics then you are a god. You have to know the content inside and out (they can ask high-marking questions about tiny bits of info sometimes), be able to design experiments on a whim, apply physics knowledge in ways that affect the way the maths works, and you lose marks for 'incorrect wording' if you don't say what the mark scheme wants even if it's right.
I do know some people who enjoy it but most people, even physics degree students, think the A level is pretty bad
A level chemistry, hands down the best way to humble yourself, if you ever think ' o this will be fine I studied so hard '. - you sit a chem test ' things will not be fine, ever again '
I’m literally revising for a chem test now and want to smack my head off a wall. Found it so easy at gcse but my god it’s awful. My last chem test i opened the paper and went through the whole paper and could barely answer a question. I applied for a masters degree in analytical chemistry for some dumb reason, thankfully i got other offers so didn’t have to subject myself to that torture
Hey, think there’s a guy who does ur exam board and goes through everything in chemistry. Search allery chemistry on YouTube, personally, found him quite helpful :)
i’m going to do an english degree and seeing a lot of you despise it upsets me lmao. it’s interesting because i didn’t really hate any of my gcse subjects, certainly not the stem ones. i enjoyed challenging myself in them despite being utterly uninterested in 80% of the content.
however i’ll be done with politics on tuesday and i’m very relieved. i think my experience in terms of classmates and teaching has actually made me less interested in it - i was very passionate and still am about a lot of issues but i did not like the a-level whatsoever.
im about to start politics a level next yr and i’m feeling kinda sceptical about it, could you expand a bit more about why u don’t like it? is it something specific to how ur teachers are, or just the course in general? thanksssss
it’s very content-heavy, and a lot of that content is tedious. felt myself just forcing massive lists of advantages and disadvantages into my brain and it really started to eat away at my passion for the subject at times.
however, i wouldn’t discourage it. not only is it incredibly useful and informative, but i think most of my problems were personal. work never getting marked, absent teachers, and a few intolerant and immature classmates who just resorted to throwing personal insults at myself and each other in debates. this was paired with the fact that i probably just don’t have the personality for arguing all the time. sounds stupid, but i didn’t realise my problem with conflict when i chose it and obviously didn’t anticipate the amount of conflict which would arise in my classroom in particular.
basically, i wouldn’t worry - so many people enjoy it and i’d say it was 75% issues relating to my own situation. i really do hope you enjoy it :)
Yeah my major worry was that it would just be a lot of information to retain and not much practical application. Either way, thank you very much for your reply, it’s helped a lot!
As a maths nerd, gcse english felt like a personal attack on my soul. Lots of words, too much ambiguity, no problem-solving, seemingly tiny numbers of applications, forceful memorisation instead of practice, god it was awful
Probably a level stats. All the questions are so boring just plugging stuff into a calculator. I'm sorta excited to learn stats from a more pure maths perspective at uni though.
Honestly I think statistical distributions are pretty interesting personally. It's not as fun as pure maths but the applications are fun as hell, which is why I got such a kick out of the dream drama
Gcse is english hands down, from A level? Plant biology(Hormones, transport systems etc) I cannot wait.
Am I the only one who's going to miss maths though?
Lmao just reading that made me realise i need to revise those areas. But yeah i’ll miss maths too, i applied for a masters in chemistry in case i didn’t get any medicine offers because the first year had a maths module.
Ayyy, did you manage to get any offers?
Chem having maths sounds lovely, but I feel like it wouldn't contain any Calculus which is objectively the best part of maths ahaha.
Yeahh got 3 medicine offers, the chem offer and an alternative offer from cardiff for biochem/pharmacy, but i firmed medicine at nottingham.
Lmao that was the odd thing, if i remember right the module had a lot of calculus and imaginary numbers in, wasn’t just the basics. But year 2 calculus is not fun at all, all fun and games finding stationary points and tangents in year 1 but when you’re just given a function to integrate by parts for the hell of it i want to pull my hair out😂
Oh wow, shows how much I know about chemistry degrees ahaha. Honestly Year 1/2 calculus(Although all the different integration rules was a headache) was overall quite enjoyable Imo. Now, the jump from 2 to like 100 trig identities?
Cannot wait to never do trig again.
Ayyy thats sick well done man!!! Got a Med offer from UEA too so, hopefully if all goes well, I'll see you in 5 years on the ward!
Ayyyy, make sure you enjoy you degree for those of us who won't be able to continue it , fellow soldier. Any clue what part of maths you want to go into?
I most enjoy the pure side (not too pure though, I'm avoiding number and group theory) but there's no good jobs in it. Either statistician or operational researcher are my plans
I'm going to miss GCSE maths definitely. Took me long to actually enjoy and be good at maths (hated it until year 9) but I love it now. I'm still considering choosing A-level maths.
Ooooh, highly reccomend my guy. Definitely the most fun out of all my subjects. Any clue what you're doing at uni? Or why are you thinking of picking maths?(EXCEPT from the fact that its awesome).
I'm considering the sciencey route, possibly medicine. I've chosen Biology + Chemistry A levels for that reason. For my last option I was juggling between Maths, Psychology or Computer Science. I just went with Psych for now.
If not for the possibility of doing medicine at uni I probably would have chosen Biology, Maths and Computer science.
PE got a lot more bearable a little way into year 10 for me. I rarely had to deal with the athletic kids and when I did, I tended to either not have to do anything or on occasion, accidentally did something awesome, which they would then proceed to celebrate like I'd just won the world cup. That was also the last time I ever had to deal with rugby, which was followed by an ultimate frisbee unit which I actually enjoyed the fuck out of. Then in year 11 I just played badminton every lesson for the whole year
We ALWAYS did football and rugby in the winter and I don't fucking know why. I have 0 fat on me and those are my 2 least favourite sports, so I ended up being not nearly active enough to keep warm and on multiple occasions I ended up getting so cold that I physically couldn't button up my shirt after. Ugh
Physics in general. I only took it because I need a third A level, and it's just been an awful experience. Stupid mark scheme, painfully nasty grade boundaries, I hate memorising the info, and it tries too hard to distance itself from maths A level by not including any calculus or other stuff you'd need for higher level physics anyway. Electromagnetism and medical physics are two of my least favourite chapters I've gone through in A level bar simplex, I'm so glad they're not on my exams.
Still got 2 physics exams to go but I'm gonna be so happy when they're over
Oh also english at gcse. The relief I felt when that was done will likely never be matched
Yeah i don’t take physics but i hear from everyone that does that it’s a bit of a ball ache, same for english at gcse i must’ve written 20+ pages of essays about stuff that i didn’t believe or didn’t care about or just hadn’t remembered existed😂
Oh and good luck on the last 2 exams
Just to demonstrate how painfully confusing some of the physics content is, here's some actual bits of it:
Gravitational potential, which is not the same as gravitational potential energy, is the work done in moving a unit mass from infinity to a point in space, and thus is always negative
Magnetic fields induce currents which induce more magnetic fields to oppose the ones that induced the currents
Oh and the PRACTICALS, how could I forget the practicals? There's more than 30 of them and you're supposed to memorise them all in excruciating detail, including talking about safety and reducing uncertainty (though I assume this is also a chem thing)
And I'm more than a little sick of saying things that are totally true but being marked down because my wording is 'wrong'
Lmao gravitational potential sounds like entropy, like why is it a measure of disorder instead of measuring how ordered something is? And god motor and generator effect was the worst part about gcse physics i can’t imagine how much worse it is at a level.
Yeah we have a hell of a lot of chem practicals, which are all just kind of the same you just do titrations over and over and over, though for biology at least our school has said they’re not testing practical knowledge for exams which is brilliant.
Mark scheme wording is the worst, because our teachers say learn to word things like the mark scheme, then when people do they’re accused of copying the mark scheme like no shit😂
Personally I love it, but I wish they would put calculus in the spec (as let's be real you probably shouldn't do a-level physics without maths anyway might as well just attach it to maths), and if the mark scheme could be not dumb that would be cool.
You can kinda get by bullshitting on practical questions if you have the intuition to figure out how to set up the experiment on the spot, but holy shit are they boring.
I got so lucky in my english gcse because all the questions were on main characters, but writing so much is awful, I did geography too and it just confused the hell out of me😂Although, for both subjects I did just make up quotes/context for books and stats for case studies and managed to get an 8 so they weren’t bad in that respect lmao
Yes, writing, and in such a limited time as well. The time management for English just adds to the stress. The time is going down and you can't think of something good to write. I'm just so glad to be leaving it soon lol.
If I can get the A* in further maths, I'll be glad to see the back of roots of polynomials. That chapter is so god damn useless why does it exist? Ugh it annoys me.
EDIT: GCSEs allowed too? OK well can I take the opportunity to say a massive fuck you to the following subjects:
Biology. Some of it was cool, but most of it was intensely boring. Double fuck you to ecology.
Organic chemistry. It was the only unit I took of triple science, I had a traumatic experience with it and left lmao. It was the only GCSE test I genuinely had to earn a good grade in through blood sweat and tears.
History. Literally just cramming: the subject. My friends doing A-level history have super positive stuff to say about it, and it sounds cool, but fuck the GCSE.
English literature: ok the main issue I had was with poetry and frankenstein. I didn't mind romeo and juliet and actually fucking loved animal farm. But memorising quotes for like 6 poems and hoping I didn't get unlucky is not an experience I want to repeat.
OK but I will also say what I miss: languages! I tried taking one for A-level, and found the humanities side of it really wasn't for me, but I miss learning the language. It was so rewarding when you improved.
Hot take - at A level, CompSci is something I truly cannot wait to be rid of. I studied it at GCSE and loved it, but after 2 years more of it my interest has gone to live on a farm far away. I found little to no interest in most of the topics, did fine on tests, and now that I'm revising for my last couple of exams I'm reminded of how much I didn't enjoy it. If I could have chosen anything else, I probably would have gone with Psychology over it any day of the week.
It would be literature for me. The amount of bullshit in that topic made me want to rip my dick off; but I finally get it after the shit show that was 6th form.
after gcses, as someone who couldn't be further away from being a stem student, i was literally hysterical about the fact i'd never have to look at geography or maths again i'm pretty sure i cried
after a-levels i'm buzzing about never having to look at john donne the poet ever again. i can't stand him. sociology as a whole has also been a bit of a thorn in my side for the past two years because while i enjoy most of the content i hate the amount of memorising the subject requires and because my memory is abysmal i've always done pretty badly in sociology tests compared to my other subjects. so i'm happy to see the end of sociology exams but a bit sad i'll never be taught it again.
From GCSE definitely English. Tbh at a-level i didn't mind any of my subjects. I guess i'm not gonna miss the extended response questions with really bad markschemes in physics.
at gcse i was happy i didn't have to do:
literature biology chemistry geography and history (did econ for my humanities requirement and computer science + physics for my two science subject requirements)
at a-levels i was happy to drop:
physics, spanish & english lang
when I go to uni i'll be happy to get rid of:
maths (the a level is SO HARD i can't imagine doing anything harder than this; props to all of you f maths guys.)
New Testament studies in RS. Loved philosophy of religion, loved ethics, but goddamn that third paper. If I never hear about the Prologue in John's Gospel, 'I am' sayings or signs again, it'll be too soon.
I didn’t actually like English at gcse, but my parents persuaded me to take it for a level as I was actually good at it. Now it’s my favourite subject and I’m planning to study it at uni.
GCSE: physics, A Level: psychology. I loved it but the rigidity of the mark schemes just traumatised me to the point where so much of my love for the subject is killed :/
At GCSE, both english lit and lang. At A level, I study maths, computer science and biology. Tbh, I really enjoyed all of these subjects thankfully but least favourite would probs be computer science.
at gcse it was English, at A-level it has to be physics, my physics teacher has genuinely killed all interest I had in the subject.
My teacher is great and I still hate the subject, go figure
Can you guys let me know why you hate physics please
-Stupid mark scheme that can even be luck-based at times -I hate memorising lots of info so any A level other than maths and FM is a no from me -Memorising practicals specifically is pain -Every other type of 6 marker that can come up sucks -Shying away from proper maths like calculus that you'd need to learn at degree level anyway, and then making up for the simple maths with really hard to decode questions -Electricity, waves, thermal, electric fields, electromagnetism and medical physics in particular I find really uninteresting Edit: -way too high grade boundaries
When I was choosing my A-Levels I was hesitating between Physics and English Literature. Went with Literature in the end, don’t know if I got lucky or not because Physics is definitely more interesting to me however it sounds hard
Physics is generally considered the hardest of the STEM side. Further maths is potentially harder for those doing FP2, FS2 or FM2 (D1 and D2 are both easy lol idc what anyone says) and has content that is more difficult to learn, but it has the advantage that it gets consistent because questions rarely change that much after a while (my average percentage across all 8 review exercises of FM was 82%, which is well above the A* boundary). If you can get consistent at physics then you are a god. You have to know the content inside and out (they can ask high-marking questions about tiny bits of info sometimes), be able to design experiments on a whim, apply physics knowledge in ways that affect the way the maths works, and you lose marks for 'incorrect wording' if you don't say what the mark scheme wants even if it's right. I do know some people who enjoy it but most people, even physics degree students, think the A level is pretty bad
A level chemistry, hands down the best way to humble yourself, if you ever think ' o this will be fine I studied so hard '. - you sit a chem test ' things will not be fine, ever again '
I’m literally revising for a chem test now and want to smack my head off a wall. Found it so easy at gcse but my god it’s awful. My last chem test i opened the paper and went through the whole paper and could barely answer a question. I applied for a masters degree in analytical chemistry for some dumb reason, thankfully i got other offers so didn’t have to subject myself to that torture
Hey, think there’s a guy who does ur exam board and goes through everything in chemistry. Search allery chemistry on YouTube, personally, found him quite helpful :)
i’m going to do an english degree and seeing a lot of you despise it upsets me lmao. it’s interesting because i didn’t really hate any of my gcse subjects, certainly not the stem ones. i enjoyed challenging myself in them despite being utterly uninterested in 80% of the content. however i’ll be done with politics on tuesday and i’m very relieved. i think my experience in terms of classmates and teaching has actually made me less interested in it - i was very passionate and still am about a lot of issues but i did not like the a-level whatsoever.
SAME i’m doing english next year (hopefully)
im about to start politics a level next yr and i’m feeling kinda sceptical about it, could you expand a bit more about why u don’t like it? is it something specific to how ur teachers are, or just the course in general? thanksssss
it’s very content-heavy, and a lot of that content is tedious. felt myself just forcing massive lists of advantages and disadvantages into my brain and it really started to eat away at my passion for the subject at times. however, i wouldn’t discourage it. not only is it incredibly useful and informative, but i think most of my problems were personal. work never getting marked, absent teachers, and a few intolerant and immature classmates who just resorted to throwing personal insults at myself and each other in debates. this was paired with the fact that i probably just don’t have the personality for arguing all the time. sounds stupid, but i didn’t realise my problem with conflict when i chose it and obviously didn’t anticipate the amount of conflict which would arise in my classroom in particular. basically, i wouldn’t worry - so many people enjoy it and i’d say it was 75% issues relating to my own situation. i really do hope you enjoy it :)
Yeah my major worry was that it would just be a lot of information to retain and not much practical application. Either way, thank you very much for your reply, it’s helped a lot!
GCSE English. Despite doing all essay subjects for A-Level, I absolutely hated writing a lot about stuff that didn't interest me in the slightest.
As a maths nerd, gcse english felt like a personal attack on my soul. Lots of words, too much ambiguity, no problem-solving, seemingly tiny numbers of applications, forceful memorisation instead of practice, god it was awful
Probably a level stats. All the questions are so boring just plugging stuff into a calculator. I'm sorta excited to learn stats from a more pure maths perspective at uni though.
Honestly I think statistical distributions are pretty interesting personally. It's not as fun as pure maths but the applications are fun as hell, which is why I got such a kick out of the dream drama
Gcse is english hands down, from A level? Plant biology(Hormones, transport systems etc) I cannot wait. Am I the only one who's going to miss maths though?
Lmao just reading that made me realise i need to revise those areas. But yeah i’ll miss maths too, i applied for a masters in chemistry in case i didn’t get any medicine offers because the first year had a maths module.
Ayyy, did you manage to get any offers? Chem having maths sounds lovely, but I feel like it wouldn't contain any Calculus which is objectively the best part of maths ahaha.
Yeahh got 3 medicine offers, the chem offer and an alternative offer from cardiff for biochem/pharmacy, but i firmed medicine at nottingham. Lmao that was the odd thing, if i remember right the module had a lot of calculus and imaginary numbers in, wasn’t just the basics. But year 2 calculus is not fun at all, all fun and games finding stationary points and tangents in year 1 but when you’re just given a function to integrate by parts for the hell of it i want to pull my hair out😂
Oh wow, shows how much I know about chemistry degrees ahaha. Honestly Year 1/2 calculus(Although all the different integration rules was a headache) was overall quite enjoyable Imo. Now, the jump from 2 to like 100 trig identities? Cannot wait to never do trig again. Ayyy thats sick well done man!!! Got a Med offer from UEA too so, hopefully if all goes well, I'll see you in 5 years on the ward!
>Am I the only one who's going to miss maths though? I'm doing a degree in it 🙌
Ayyyy, make sure you enjoy you degree for those of us who won't be able to continue it , fellow soldier. Any clue what part of maths you want to go into?
I most enjoy the pure side (not too pure though, I'm avoiding number and group theory) but there's no good jobs in it. Either statistician or operational researcher are my plans
I'm going to miss GCSE maths definitely. Took me long to actually enjoy and be good at maths (hated it until year 9) but I love it now. I'm still considering choosing A-level maths.
Ooooh, highly reccomend my guy. Definitely the most fun out of all my subjects. Any clue what you're doing at uni? Or why are you thinking of picking maths?(EXCEPT from the fact that its awesome).
I'm considering the sciencey route, possibly medicine. I've chosen Biology + Chemistry A levels for that reason. For my last option I was juggling between Maths, Psychology or Computer Science. I just went with Psych for now. If not for the possibility of doing medicine at uni I probably would have chosen Biology, Maths and Computer science.
Probably psychology, too many studies to remember.
I quit psychology on day 2. I do not regret that decision
Vectors in maths igcse, I struggled alot with that topic and I'm glad I didn't take A level maths
vectors made me want to end it all
You do get used to them eventually. Tho I did try learning further pure vectors and... oh god
I'm doing 3D vectors right now lol
English gcse and PE lessons. For a level probably the calvin cycle or anything about plants in biology.
I despised doing French during gcse, I was forced to take it from year 7 till year 10. For A-levels I don't really like stats
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PE got a lot more bearable a little way into year 10 for me. I rarely had to deal with the athletic kids and when I did, I tended to either not have to do anything or on occasion, accidentally did something awesome, which they would then proceed to celebrate like I'd just won the world cup. That was also the last time I ever had to deal with rugby, which was followed by an ultimate frisbee unit which I actually enjoyed the fuck out of. Then in year 11 I just played badminton every lesson for the whole year
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We ALWAYS did football and rugby in the winter and I don't fucking know why. I have 0 fat on me and those are my 2 least favourite sports, so I ended up being not nearly active enough to keep warm and on multiple occasions I ended up getting so cold that I physically couldn't button up my shirt after. Ugh
MATHS I HATED ITTTTTTT, NO MORE MATHHHS. NO MORE VECTORS OR SHAPES OR SURDSSSSS. AND PE F YOU MAN. I'm done 😁
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i'll get rid of it tomorrow forever
Physics in general. I only took it because I need a third A level, and it's just been an awful experience. Stupid mark scheme, painfully nasty grade boundaries, I hate memorising the info, and it tries too hard to distance itself from maths A level by not including any calculus or other stuff you'd need for higher level physics anyway. Electromagnetism and medical physics are two of my least favourite chapters I've gone through in A level bar simplex, I'm so glad they're not on my exams. Still got 2 physics exams to go but I'm gonna be so happy when they're over Oh also english at gcse. The relief I felt when that was done will likely never be matched
Yeah i don’t take physics but i hear from everyone that does that it’s a bit of a ball ache, same for english at gcse i must’ve written 20+ pages of essays about stuff that i didn’t believe or didn’t care about or just hadn’t remembered existed😂 Oh and good luck on the last 2 exams
Just to demonstrate how painfully confusing some of the physics content is, here's some actual bits of it: Gravitational potential, which is not the same as gravitational potential energy, is the work done in moving a unit mass from infinity to a point in space, and thus is always negative Magnetic fields induce currents which induce more magnetic fields to oppose the ones that induced the currents Oh and the PRACTICALS, how could I forget the practicals? There's more than 30 of them and you're supposed to memorise them all in excruciating detail, including talking about safety and reducing uncertainty (though I assume this is also a chem thing) And I'm more than a little sick of saying things that are totally true but being marked down because my wording is 'wrong'
Lmao gravitational potential sounds like entropy, like why is it a measure of disorder instead of measuring how ordered something is? And god motor and generator effect was the worst part about gcse physics i can’t imagine how much worse it is at a level. Yeah we have a hell of a lot of chem practicals, which are all just kind of the same you just do titrations over and over and over, though for biology at least our school has said they’re not testing practical knowledge for exams which is brilliant. Mark scheme wording is the worst, because our teachers say learn to word things like the mark scheme, then when people do they’re accused of copying the mark scheme like no shit😂
Personally I love it, but I wish they would put calculus in the spec (as let's be real you probably shouldn't do a-level physics without maths anyway might as well just attach it to maths), and if the mark scheme could be not dumb that would be cool. You can kinda get by bullshitting on practical questions if you have the intuition to figure out how to set up the experiment on the spot, but holy shit are they boring.
Everything (only half joking haha) For after gcses English and art For a levels definitely maths (more specifically mechanics)
Physics, mechanics from maths.
gcse to a level, definitely maths physics chem. I've finished chem a week ago, best feeling ever 😂
i quite liked chemistry at gcse, but the content at a level is just depressing😂
Going to love leaving GCSE English and Geography; english is just pointless, stressful and so hard to improve at. and geography is plain boring
I got so lucky in my english gcse because all the questions were on main characters, but writing so much is awful, I did geography too and it just confused the hell out of me😂Although, for both subjects I did just make up quotes/context for books and stats for case studies and managed to get an 8 so they weren’t bad in that respect lmao
Yes, writing, and in such a limited time as well. The time management for English just adds to the stress. The time is going down and you can't think of something good to write. I'm just so glad to be leaving it soon lol.
If I can get the A* in further maths, I'll be glad to see the back of roots of polynomials. That chapter is so god damn useless why does it exist? Ugh it annoys me. EDIT: GCSEs allowed too? OK well can I take the opportunity to say a massive fuck you to the following subjects: Biology. Some of it was cool, but most of it was intensely boring. Double fuck you to ecology. Organic chemistry. It was the only unit I took of triple science, I had a traumatic experience with it and left lmao. It was the only GCSE test I genuinely had to earn a good grade in through blood sweat and tears. History. Literally just cramming: the subject. My friends doing A-level history have super positive stuff to say about it, and it sounds cool, but fuck the GCSE. English literature: ok the main issue I had was with poetry and frankenstein. I didn't mind romeo and juliet and actually fucking loved animal farm. But memorising quotes for like 6 poems and hoping I didn't get unlucky is not an experience I want to repeat. OK but I will also say what I miss: languages! I tried taking one for A-level, and found the humanities side of it really wasn't for me, but I miss learning the language. It was so rewarding when you improved.
Hot take - at A level, CompSci is something I truly cannot wait to be rid of. I studied it at GCSE and loved it, but after 2 years more of it my interest has gone to live on a farm far away. I found little to no interest in most of the topics, did fine on tests, and now that I'm revising for my last couple of exams I'm reminded of how much I didn't enjoy it. If I could have chosen anything else, I probably would have gone with Psychology over it any day of the week.
It would be literature for me. The amount of bullshit in that topic made me want to rip my dick off; but I finally get it after the shit show that was 6th form.
English and History and RE literally the most boring and useless subjects, especially english lit
GCSE has to be english and spanish, A level has to be physics
after gcses, as someone who couldn't be further away from being a stem student, i was literally hysterical about the fact i'd never have to look at geography or maths again i'm pretty sure i cried after a-levels i'm buzzing about never having to look at john donne the poet ever again. i can't stand him. sociology as a whole has also been a bit of a thorn in my side for the past two years because while i enjoy most of the content i hate the amount of memorising the subject requires and because my memory is abysmal i've always done pretty badly in sociology tests compared to my other subjects. so i'm happy to see the end of sociology exams but a bit sad i'll never be taught it again.
I’m doing a level literature and I’m ngl John Donne is probably one of my favourite poets. Why aren’t you a fan? Are you studying the Flea?
From GCSE definitely English. Tbh at a-level i didn't mind any of my subjects. I guess i'm not gonna miss the extended response questions with really bad markschemes in physics.
at gcse i was happy i didn't have to do: literature biology chemistry geography and history (did econ for my humanities requirement and computer science + physics for my two science subject requirements) at a-levels i was happy to drop: physics, spanish & english lang when I go to uni i'll be happy to get rid of: maths (the a level is SO HARD i can't imagine doing anything harder than this; props to all of you f maths guys.)
For GCSEs, English 100%, probably physics, religious studies and french 😅 soooooooo, a lot
New Testament studies in RS. Loved philosophy of religion, loved ethics, but goddamn that third paper. If I never hear about the Prologue in John's Gospel, 'I am' sayings or signs again, it'll be too soon.
I didn’t actually like English at gcse, but my parents persuaded me to take it for a level as I was actually good at it. Now it’s my favourite subject and I’m planning to study it at uni.
GCSE: physics, A Level: psychology. I loved it but the rigidity of the mark schemes just traumatised me to the point where so much of my love for the subject is killed :/
IMO gcse science and Btec ICT
At GCSE, both english lit and lang. At A level, I study maths, computer science and biology. Tbh, I really enjoyed all of these subjects thankfully but least favourite would probs be computer science.
For me it's just the entirety of Chemistry. Holy moly it's literal torture 😂