• Question: Why did you choose to do science GCSE?

    Asked by Qisiin on 4 Nov 2024.
    • Photo: Emilia Arguello

      Emilia Arguello answered on 4 Nov 2024:

      My school had a program different from GCSE for our last 2 years of high school, but you could choose your subjects in a similar way to GCSE. I decided to focus more on science (chemistry and biology, but not physics) because I love to know how the world works from cellular and molecular points of view. If you love these kinds of questions and are fascinated by the natural world, I think the best advice is to follow that curiosity!

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      Ruth Pegington answered on 5 Nov 2024:

      I don’t think we had any other choice in my school; we all did dual science GCSE. I enjoyed the coursework experiments the most. It’s good to study a broad range of subjects while you can.

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      Anita Kinsey answered on 14 Nov 2024:

      Because science was my best subject at school and I didn’t really know what I wanted to do when I left school

Comments

  • Photo: Andrew M

    Andrew M commented on :

    I was lucky to be at a school with a strong, if slightly eccentric, science department. My school didn’t do combined science, but offered separate Biology, Chemistry and Physics, one of which we had to do so that we kept a broad range of subjects (one social science and one language were also compulsary, along with English and Maths). I chose to take the other two as free choices simply because I enjoyed them and didn’t, at the time, know which I liked best. I loved finding out about the world, understanding it better – it’s full of such beauty and wonder.

  • Photo: Kirsty R

    Kirsty R commented on :

    It was compulsory at my school to do dual award science GCSE, so I didn’t have a choice!

  • Photo: Kirsty L

    Kirsty L commented on :

    Everyone had to do at least double science in my school, but the top set where allowed to pick triple science as one of our options, so I did Physics, Biology and Chemistry for 25 hrs a fortnight- I picked it because it sounded fun and we did double lessons so the experiments could be more complex.