Took Business Studies GCSE and Economics A-Level, can confirm, they did not teach us how to do taxes. We learnt only about general taxation for corporations and VAT or those kind of taxes.
ikr i always enjoy the more mature adult podcast... if they talk about life etc just what they did here.. classic lads.. what a bunch of nice guys.. naaa just kidding fooking howay man! conts! oi!
This is why we need hat chat back! it's so interesting to hear them talk about stuff like this and the videos are great, but they definitely had more to say than the length of the video allowed
ive done sciences on GCSE and am finishing my A-Levels last week and literally in October we had to make our uni applications and nobody in science had any idea what they wanted to do we just picked science because we sort of enjoyed it or could hack it
I did media studies for A-level and I found it really useful. It was making me realise why a specific camera shot is used and how that can tell a story. I'm sure it helped you lot massively subconsciously.
We had a mandatory class where you learn life skills, like how to do taxes, how to open a bank account and which one is better, how to write a cv, and how to budget for living alone and with roommates. I didn't take business studies, I take drama/English subjects.
I graduated 3 years ago in Australia and I did Business Technology Studies and was taught about tax in Maths. I was also given the option to drop one class to do a Certificate 3 in Film Media. I also did Visual Arts which included a bit a graphic design.
As someone starting college, I didn't find your class chat boring at all! Good to hear uncensored opinions about this sorta thing. I'll try to steer clear of film humanities, lol they sounded like bs.
I doing a level photography soon and we'll be using film at some points, I don't think film will ever die necessarily, it'll be used less but there will always be people that prefer it.
I did a City and Guilds Electrical Installation course at college, I remember eighty percent of it being gibberish, we spent at most a couple of hours a week in the workshop and the the rest of the time going over health and safety regulation like what to do in case of a bomb scare.
i did maths, further maths and business studies at a level. i'm now a panel beater which you don't need an education for. i would recommend you do something you enjoy because you're going to be doing it for the rest of you're life.
I disagree with the notions you have to settle down in one career path for the rest of your life, you can always get a graduate degree and move on to something else or just move on a different path. For instance you can be an accountant for a while and then go for an MBA and do whatever the hell you want in that career path that has nothing to do with accounting (or is relevant to your experience).
Took business studies at GCSE, got an A and learnt.....nothing about taxes, at least I know the motivation levels for when I run my business. Halfway thorough A-Level business and still, nothing to do with taxes! Thank god they're preparing us for the future.
I'm currently in high school and I'm in a personal financing class and am going to take an accounting as well as get a minor in accounting while in college. And I can confirm, they do teach you how to do taxes, budgeting, saving, and investing. Great classes, I recommend them to anyone and everyone who hasn't taken those types of classes.
So glad I watched this at 23 having already gone though the system and picking all the wrong options now bumbling from job to job desperately hunting for a job I can tolerate...welcome to 80% of the populations lives =]
How do you think you went wrong when you were choosing what to do? (asking this because I have no clue what I want to do with my life and am just picking stuff I enjoy)
In high school my last year I took finical literacy and they teach you a little about taxes. They give examples and show you how to fill out etc but it wasn't in great detail.
This was a great episode. Honest where is the Hat Films Podcast? If you guys just went another 30mins to an hour after these recording sessions, put that on a podcast I'd listen to it just like thousands of other people indefinitely!
I did Philosophy, English Lit, Drama, and Media for A level. For Drama, English and Media there was a point where we were studying adaptations of Othello for all three. That was a good term.
Currently doing A level economics, and we have not been taught anything about personal financing. We do get taught to evaluate graphs and other stuff though..
I took a combo computer/business class in high school and we mostly just learned about laws. I think the most grown-up thing we learned about was writing checks, and I retained none of that.
At my school we had loads on days that didn't have normal lessons where we were taught things like how to write a CV, how to do taxes, how to change a fuse and grow vegetables etc, you know, all the things people complain about never being taught. The problem is that loads of people went "its not normal lessons so i'm going to stay at home" since it was during GCSEs and A levels. Those very same people are the ones who go on facebook and like all those videos and pictures about how we don't get taught how to do taxes and grow vegetables at school...
Love how they start the episode about how you don't get taught about stuff like hard water at school where in GCSE Chemistry there is literally a topic called "Hard Water"
To be fair to Smith, A-level chemistry is a pain in the proverbial arse. But the key is just with all sciences, dont take all of it in, check the past papers and only take the bare bones and focus on the details when your confident.
i took business at secondary and they did not even mention taxes. It mainly consisted of watching dragons den and making questionnaires. Thanks education, you did a good
I just finnished my business studies VCERT gcse course and we did nit learn about investing or economics, we did not touch any further than what corporation and VAT tax is nothing more. But we did learn marketing and what PLC's are etc but it wasnt that useful than wht accounting and investing could have been if it was apart of this or different subject
There's a kid in my biology class who ate a thumb sized piece of raw, 2 day old sheep heart during dissections. He did this twice on different occasions. Just wanted to share.
As someone about to take their A level exams in Film and Media... I completely agree with everything Ross is saying. I also just finished the final Graphics exam and they were spot on with the art lessons being a bit bullshitty.
Maths, Chemistry and Physics. At the end of the two years I do look back and wonder what i was thinking. At least I got an unconditional to uni so if it all goes terribly i'll still be able to go.
by far my favourite commentary in a hat video recently lol, just realting to all the media/ film stuff, how things like auteur theory were interesting at the start but then it just becomes nit picking and boring/ repetitive and all you do is theory in place of ANY practical work what so ever
i did business studies a university, what a waste of time, didn't learn taxes and i learnt the aspects of bunnies to such a minimal amount that its not useful, if you want to go to uni then do something that you enjoy but also something thats finite, for me business studies was just so broad they couldnt teach you or train you in any aspects of it whereas economics for instance is a much smaller pool of things to learning probably more interesting.
I didn't really learn about taxes etc in business studies/economics but there was this other class I think it was called transition where they taught a bunch of life stuff including taxes, dunno how in depth they went though.
My school offered a Personal Finance class, which taught us how to do and calculate taxes. We were even taught investing, negotiations, budgeting, and mortgages. Hell, I already have a retirement plan.
Economics is a good class. Business studies was wank. I spent nearly two years copying page by page from a business book. I slept through most of the lessons after I got half way through the book.
LAW. You can be taught about taxes and mortgages and the like by choosing Law as a subject at college or university, provided the syllabus covers property or business law or something similar. Also gives you basic knowledge on how parliament and politics works. These are reasons why Law should be taught at secondary school. Also yes even at uni, when it comes to the arts your grade pretty much depends on your teacher's subjective view of your work.
Got my A level Film Studies exam next Friday.... not prepared for the amount of bs spouting involved and things I need to know. In A level you also need to include alternate readings, which creates more bs and more stress! c:
I'm taking biology, chemistry and maths. My exams are in two weeks. (yes, I'm procrastinating. No, I don't care). The most interesting thing we did in chemistry was make aspirin, but you also have to interpret NMR spectra, which is like trying to castrate a bucking donkey with your teeth.
I just finished IGCSE Business Studies and Accounting a few weeks ago. We didn't learn about taxes. Or anything we could actually apply in the real world. It was mostly just learning how the examiner wanted us to answer. Shitty education system honestly.
I'm doing a levels in chemistry maths and biology and honestly don't bother doing a levels unless you have a specific degree/job you want that requires them because they're bloody hard work and nobody cares that you have them, starting a midwifery degree next year but so many of my friends dropped out because you just don't need them unless you want to do a degree
Just finished a degree in electrical engineering. I highly recommend to do a STEM course, because I'm going into a job starting at £31k, to increase to £37k after 2 years.
It might depend on the class, I took a business course in high school and they taught us about stuff like managing a business, calculating wages, doing taxes and all that. What an amazingly fun and not boring experience that was.
The maths side of physics and chemistry killed it for me too. I loved chemistry otherwise or, I suppose without the intrinsic maths, I loved the idea of chemistry.
when smith was talking about dropping chemistry after 2 weeks, i remember watching this video when had to choose my a levels and i chose my a-levels: i chose chemistry and dropped it after a lesson lmao
I'd just like to say I'm in high school, and I do triple science which is basically additional science and we do in fact learn about hard and soft water, there's two types of hardness, temporary and permanent
At A level I took science subjects with maths and music, all the stuff I had enjoyed learning at GCSE. All my friends did Business Studies, Media Studies, Photography and English Language/Literature and Humanities. They'd always spend their lunchtimes complaining about their shitty lessons. I still don't understand why any of them took those subjects, or even stayed in school.
I did Creative media, E-commerce and Games development. None of them worked out because the printers and computers never worked and the tutors taught from an out of date book which never works with software thats updated every 2 months or so.
Took Business Studies GCSE and Economics A-Level, can confirm, they did not teach us how to do taxes. We learnt only about general taxation for corporations and VAT or those kind of taxes.
KN1F3RJord But triple chemistry does teach you about soft and hard water (difference is soft water gets more soapy)
KN1F3RJord I also took business at GCSE and learnt zero about taxes
KN1F3RJord Took Business Studies Btec and they also did not teach us how to do taxes.
Doing business studies GCSE right now and I can confirm there is no information given on personal taxes
Exactly the same in Irish Leaving Cert too.
Took triple science at GCSE and can confirm they teach you about hard and soft water.
Ryan Hill isn't hard water basically water with more calcium?
Daniel Băț yeah boy
don't be bias, gotta including some of dem phat magnesium ions
so vapor and ice?
Gortpap HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA YOU ARE FUNNY
I'd be pretty happy if you literally only uploaded GTA or Trials. It's like a perfect podcast experience.
Cynical Sloth Makes it pretty ironic considering they haven't released a podcast in absolutely ages xD
God I miss listening to those :/
ikr i always enjoy the more mature adult podcast... if they talk about life etc just what they did here.. classic lads.. what a bunch of nice guys.. naaa just kidding fooking howay man! conts! oi!
Yeh I flip my phone upsidown and just listen to trials
Don't forget Worms.
W?TF happened to WORMS?
Petition for Smith and Trott to remake Dirty Dancing. The people want to see this guys, #forthemany and all that.
This is why we need hat chat back! it's so interesting to hear them talk about stuff like this and the videos are great, but they definitely had more to say than the length of the video allowed
ive done sciences on GCSE and am finishing my A-Levels last week and literally in October we had to make our uni applications and nobody in science had any idea what they wanted to do we just picked science because we sort of enjoyed it or could hack it
I did media studies for A-level and I found it really useful. It was making me realise why a specific camera shot is used and how that can tell a story. I'm sure it helped you lot massively subconsciously.
I genuinely love the boys talking about their experiences! Fantastic video!
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stopped revising for my A levels to listen to you guys talk about A levels and it was definitely worth it
We had a mandatory class where you learn life skills, like how to do taxes, how to open a bank account and which one is better, how to write a cv, and how to budget for living alone and with roommates. I didn't take business studies, I take drama/English subjects.
I graduated 3 years ago in Australia and I did Business Technology Studies and was taught about tax in Maths. I was also given the option to drop one class to do a Certificate 3 in Film Media. I also did Visual Arts which included a bit a graphic design.
As someone starting college, I didn't find your class chat boring at all! Good to hear uncensored opinions about this sorta thing. I'll try to steer clear of film humanities, lol they sounded like bs.
I did maths, further maths, physics and DT. I loved 20hrs of maths a week.
Watching this video makes me re-evaluate my education so far, good on ya Hat Films turning a GTA video into a look at the education system!
I doing a level photography soon and we'll be using film at some points, I don't think film will ever die necessarily, it'll be used less but there will always be people that prefer it.
I've already copyrighted the Ballbra so from now on, every time you mention it, you owe me £25,000. Smith's guyliner is looking nice today also.
Thumbs up straight away for that discustingly beautiful intro like always
I love these discussion heavy videos. Currently studying my own a levels and it's both hilarious and jading hearing how I'll look back on it
I did a City and Guilds Electrical Installation course at college, I remember eighty percent of it being gibberish, we spent at most a couple of hours a week in the workshop and the the rest of the time going over health and safety regulation like what to do in case of a bomb scare.
As someone trying to choose a college course next year this video is actually really helpful
i did maths, further maths and business studies at a level. i'm now a panel beater which you don't need an education for. i would recommend you do something you enjoy because you're going to be doing it for the rest of you're life.
I disagree with the notions you have to settle down in one career path for the rest of your life, you can always get a graduate degree and move on to something else or just move on a different path. For instance you can be an accountant for a while and then go for an MBA and do whatever the hell you want in that career path that has nothing to do with accounting (or is relevant to your experience).
Normal water? They did teach us in secondary school that it is either hard or soft, there's no 'Normal'.
Dammit Croclate...
I did physics, chemistry and psychology at A-level. I spent 1 term at university for Chemistry. Then i joined the RAF where you only need 5 GCSEs xD.
Took business studies at GCSE, got an A and learnt.....nothing about taxes, at least I know the motivation levels for when I run my business. Halfway thorough A-Level business and still, nothing to do with taxes! Thank god they're preparing us for the future.
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I remember doing that in secondary school... ah, covalent bonds... good times :)
I'm currently in high school and I'm in a personal financing class and am going to take an accounting as well as get a minor in accounting while in college. And I can confirm, they do teach you how to do taxes, budgeting, saving, and investing. Great classes, I recommend them to anyone and everyone who hasn't taken those types of classes.
So glad I watched this at 23 having already gone though the system and picking all the wrong options now bumbling from job to job desperately hunting for a job I can tolerate...welcome to 80% of the populations lives =]
How do you think you went wrong when you were choosing what to do? (asking this because I have no clue what I want to do with my life and am just picking stuff I enjoy)
This has honestly been one of the funniest GTA episodes for a while guys
In high school my last year I took finical literacy and they teach you a little about taxes. They give examples and show you how to fill out etc but it wasn't in great detail.
it requires dedication, talent just makes it easier to dedicate yourself
This was one of the best videos I've seen in a while, classic hatters
this video really helped, I just chose my options recently
I actually checked my water hardness for my new house just last week and I was really exited about my new dishwasher.
I might be your most adult fan.
This was a great episode. Honest where is the Hat Films Podcast? If you guys just went another 30mins to an hour after these recording sessions, put that on a podcast I'd listen to it just like thousands of other people indefinitely!
You guys are literally a cure for boredom
Currently in the middle of my A levels, took Media, Psychology and Applied ICT. Cool to hear what you guys took and your thoughts on it.
I did combined Resistant Materials and Business Studies at GCSE. 15 years later I can just about hold a hacksaw the right way round.
I did Philosophy, English Lit, Drama, and Media for A level. For Drama, English and Media there was a point where we were studying adaptations of Othello for all three. That was a good term.
Tiny dancer reference slipped in there Ross. Nice.
Taking Chemistry GCSE and they do teach us about hard and soft water, but cheers for the life lesson anyway
in Virginia, Econ and Personal Finance is a required class. we did learn how to fill out income tax forms there
Currently doing A level economics, and we have not been taught anything about personal financing. We do get taught to evaluate graphs and other stuff though..
I took a combo computer/business class in high school and we mostly just learned about laws. I think the most grown-up thing we learned about was writing checks, and I retained none of that.
Probably Ross' best intro, i love it
I'm loving these chats about media and film studies, i did similar haha
Took a Business Studies BTEC, didn't teach us about taxes. Although we learnt about types of taxation and the effect it has on businesses.
That talk about Media and Film Studies was painfully accurate, just glad I can bullshit well enough to get through the subjects
At my school we had loads on days that didn't have normal lessons where we were taught things like how to write a CV, how to do taxes, how to change a fuse and grow vegetables etc, you know, all the things people complain about never being taught. The problem is that loads of people went "its not normal lessons so i'm going to stay at home" since it was during GCSEs and A levels.
Those very same people are the ones who go on facebook and like all those videos and pictures about how we don't get taught how to do taxes and grow vegetables at school...
Love how they start the episode about how you don't get taught about stuff like hard water at school where in GCSE Chemistry there is literally a topic called "Hard Water"
Man, I've never watched a GTA 5 Online play-*ilst* before XD
Dat title, tho
To be fair to Smith, A-level chemistry is a pain in the proverbial arse. But the key is just with all sciences, dont take all of it in, check the past papers and only take the bare bones and focus on the details when your confident.
I finished my A-Levels in Business Studies, Economics, ICT and History last year and now I work as a Baker making cakes and pastries all day haha :)
i took business at secondary and they did not even mention taxes. It mainly consisted of watching dragons den and making questionnaires. Thanks education, you did a good
Dropped a science for Philosophy, bosh, go team.
I just finnished my business studies VCERT gcse course and we did nit learn about investing or economics, we did not touch any further than what corporation and VAT tax is nothing more. But we did learn marketing and what PLC's are etc but it wasnt that useful than wht accounting and investing could have been if it was apart of this or different subject
My dad's mate did a philosophy degree (yes I know) and got full marks on the question 'what is it to be brave?' by answering with one word: 'this.'
I've seen Gnarly Man and those other vids. They're pretty interesting, all said and done.
Yeah going to college for art will really help you out in life. mine as well be working at McDonald's at that point
There's a kid in my biology class who ate a thumb sized piece of raw, 2 day old sheep heart during dissections. He did this twice on different occasions. Just wanted to share.
As someone about to take their A level exams in Film and Media... I completely agree with everything Ross is saying. I also just finished the final Graphics exam and they were spot on with the art lessons being a bit bullshitty.
Maths, Chemistry and Physics. At the end of the two years I do look back and wonder what i was thinking. At least I got an unconditional to uni so if it all goes terribly i'll still be able to go.
by far my favourite commentary in a hat video recently lol, just realting to all the media/ film stuff, how things like auteur theory were interesting at the start but then it just becomes nit picking and boring/ repetitive and all you do is theory in place of ANY practical work what so ever
I purposely did and extra A level so I had an AAB equivalent in points by getting BBCDDE and then A Grade 7 in an instrument
Physics, Maths and Further.
#ALevelMasterRace
Matt Griffin Not if youre not good at maths
as someone who is halfway into my gcses and applyed for my a- levels this was a very interesting episode
Hope you learned that A-Levels are bullshit ;)
well the arty ones seem to be
i did business studies a university, what a waste of time, didn't learn taxes and i learnt the aspects of bunnies to such a minimal amount that its not useful, if you want to go to uni then do something that you enjoy but also something thats finite, for me business studies was just so broad they couldnt teach you or train you in any aspects of it whereas economics for instance is a much smaller pool of things to learning probably more interesting.
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I didn't really learn about taxes etc in business studies/economics but there was this other class I think it was called transition where they taught a bunch of life stuff including taxes, dunno how in depth they went though.
My favourite people. Hat Films.
In Australia at least, taxes, credit cards and mortgaging etc. are all taught in general mathematics in year 11 and 12
My school offered a Personal Finance class, which taught us how to do and calculate taxes. We were even taught investing, negotiations, budgeting, and mortgages. Hell, I already have a retirement plan.
Economics is a good class. Business studies was wank. I spent nearly two years copying page by page from a business book. I slept through most of the lessons after I got half way through the book.
LAW.
You can be taught about taxes and mortgages and the like by choosing Law as a subject at college or university, provided the syllabus covers property or business law or something similar. Also gives you basic knowledge on how parliament and politics works.
These are reasons why Law should be taught at secondary school.
Also yes even at uni, when it comes to the arts your grade pretty much depends on your teacher's subjective view of your work.
"Frape-Away was a great documentary." What a reference.
Got my A level Film Studies exam next Friday.... not prepared for the amount of bs spouting involved and things I need to know. In A level you also need to include alternate readings, which creates more bs and more stress! c:
Just finishing my course for a new Mathematics Level 3 in ASLevel and they do teach us taxation.
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27° Degrees Celsius is a cold winter haven for most folk, you filthy rain-people.
Man that intro got me too hype, I can't stand the hypeness!
I'm taking biology, chemistry and maths. My exams are in two weeks. (yes, I'm procrastinating. No, I don't care). The most interesting thing we did in chemistry was make aspirin, but you also have to interpret NMR spectra, which is like trying to castrate a bucking donkey with your teeth.
I just finished IGCSE Business Studies and Accounting a few weeks ago. We didn't learn about taxes. Or anything we could actually apply in the real world. It was mostly just learning how the examiner wanted us to answer. Shitty education system honestly.
I'm doing a levels in chemistry maths and biology and honestly don't bother doing a levels unless you have a specific degree/job you want that requires them because they're bloody hard work and nobody cares that you have them, starting a midwifery degree next year but so many of my friends dropped out because you just don't need them unless you want to do a degree
This spoke to me spiritually
3:24. Trott's got it spot on.
Just finished a degree in electrical engineering. I highly recommend to do a STEM course, because I'm going into a job starting at £31k, to increase to £37k after 2 years.
One of your best vids
They don't teach taxes in business studies :(
edit - my class of business studies
In the U.S. they do. at least they did to my class
It might depend on the class, I took a business course in high school and they taught us about stuff like managing a business, calculating wages, doing taxes and all that. What an amazingly fun and not boring experience that was.
Nebulous Neanderthal my maths teacher taught us about taxes, and a bit of American politics
I am currently doing GCSE business and we don’t get taught taxes but my teacher taught us it anyway
I did business studies as a module in forestry and they taught us taxes and vat and about setting up your own business.
The maths side of physics and chemistry killed it for me too. I loved chemistry otherwise or, I suppose without the intrinsic maths, I loved the idea of chemistry.
Top banter today.
Yep, took Financial Literacy in the US, taught us to do taxes and invest.
I do Business Management at uni, plus Business and Economics A-Levels. I am yet to learn how to pay my taxes, I only know about the different types.
3:56 "Incredibly cultured but totally useless." ....I'd buy that as a t-shirt, for sure.
ya economics and business administration major here. no taxes were taught. but I did learn how to write papers freshman year which was a waste of time
when smith was talking about dropping chemistry after 2 weeks, i remember watching this video when had to choose my a levels and i chose my a-levels: i chose chemistry and dropped it after a lesson lmao
in Ireland you learn how to test water hardness in secondary school and also taxes in business studies
I'd just like to say I'm in high school, and I do triple science which is basically additional science and we do in fact learn about hard and soft water, there's two types of hardness, temporary and permanent
I'm also taking computing, and going to do chemistry and computing at A Level
At A level I took science subjects with maths and music, all the stuff I had enjoyed learning at GCSE. All my friends did Business Studies, Media Studies, Photography and English Language/Literature and Humanities. They'd always spend their lunchtimes complaining about their shitty lessons. I still don't understand why any of them took those subjects, or even stayed in school.
I did Creative media, E-commerce and Games development. None of them worked out because the printers and computers never worked and the tutors taught from an out of date book which never works with software thats updated every 2 months or so.