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1) Modern Foreign Languages:
In 2017, the number of students undertaking a GCSE in a modern foreign language experienced a slight decrease compared to 2016. It wouldn’t be surprising if this was once again the case for the new specification in 2018. In order to succeed in the new specification, students have to be able to speak relatively fluently with limited preparation as well as write essays without the aid of a dictionary. It is for this reason, that we consider languages to be one of the hardest subjects to achieve top grades in.
2) History:
Like most essay subjects, the degree of subjectivity involved in marking exams means that it can be difficult to score the top grades. This is because two different examiners will have differing opinions of what a top band answer consists of. Therefore, even the most proficient essay writers may struggle to gain the top grades despite having the knowledge and structure to create a well argued answer.
3) Music:
GCSE music is often omitted from lists like this, however, we believe that it is definitely deserves to be included. In order to do well in GCSE music, you must be able to play an instrument well alongside being able to learn the theoretical content too. Often, it takes years of practise before a student can play an instrument at the level required in order to achieve top grades; it is for this reason that we believe that music requires one of the highest levels of dedication out of all GCSEs.
4) English Literature:
Unlike English Language, English Literature requires a detailed knowledge of the texts that you have studied. This can include quotes, themes and background knowledge; these can take months to learn depending on the number of different books and poems that you have to memorise in order to present well structured arguments in the exam. Once again, the marks that you gain are relatively subjective as different examiners will have different personal standards for a ‘strong argument’.
5) Maths:
Despite the low grade boundaries last year for GCSE Maths, many students still struggled to get the top grades. This is because the questions aimed at the most able students typically require various different steps and techniques in order to achieve the answer, something which isn’t always possible to do in the limited timespan of an exam. Unlike History and English, Maths is relatively objective when it comes to marking due to the ‘right or wrong’ nature of the questions. Whilst this does help to improve standardisation, it means that if you’re one mark off the next grade a remark is unlikely to make up the difference.
6) Sciences:
Whilst there may be slight variations in difficulty depending on which science course you do (separate sciences or combined, etc.), most people can agree that science GCSE subjects are amongst the most difficult. They require a wide variety of knowledge as well as the ability to apply to the countless scenarios you may be given in the exam. Similar to Maths, science exams come with a certain aspect of objectivity as many of the answer are either right or wrong, however with long answer questions there is some wriggle room in the mark scheme.
7) Engineering:
At GCSE level, Engineering encompasses knowledge from both Maths and Physics in order to design practical solutions to various problems. This is one of the reasons that we think Engineering GCSE deserves a place on this list; as well as being able to apply the knowledge learnt in other subjects to a wide variety of scenarios, there is also vast amounts of new knowledge to learn about different materials and methods used in industry.
so basically all the compulsory gcses are the hardest.
mariyasuga is french compulsory
Rising Stars in my school languages are compulsory
a lot of these are options actually - music, geography, history, sciences (i know most school say you have to take at least one but not all), language, engineering, drama
yea i know but this video mentioned all the complusory gcses that we all have to take are the hardest (maths, english etc)
Thé only ones compulsory for me is maths and English , I’m very lucky 🍀
Summary:
- Modern Foreign Languages
- History
- Music
- English Literature
- Maths
- Sciences
- Engineering
- Drama
- Geography
- Computing / Computer Science
*Did they literally just name every subject?! 😂*
Edit: it’s so funny how everyone is replying with the subjects this video didn’t mention when I was literally joking 🤭
BuilderLemon not religious studies or English language
There's way more - Art, Business Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, Travel and Tourism, Food Technology, Product Design, PE BTEC.... could go on tbh as I do three of them subjects aha
There 8 more
Don't take GCSE art. Ever.
Good luck then.
one word: art. the most time-consuming gcse I do which makes it so stressful
lil i I don’t do art at gcse but two of my friends do and I totally agree I thought PE was stressful with all the extra training I had to do on my three sports but art is something else I like to look st my friends art book and there is so much stuff to do on top of a 4-5hr exam
my exam is 10 hours long :(
100% agree
Soo true
omg yes i have 6 double pages to do by next week
Can we talk about how hard any GCSE art and design courses are please? We have only 3 months to prep for an exam and you need to keep in mind for most of the subjects you listed here you have 2-3 years to prep, and trust me now its not just drawing it’s so much detailed analysis and to top it all off a 10 hour exam. It’s one of the hardest to achieve considering how much work your expected to have done in such a short time constraint. Its impeccably time consuming.
Grunge does stuff I 100% agree! Students that don’t take art can use all their time to complete other coursework or revise. art students have to stay on top of course work which is hard enough as well as homework on top! Plus the 10 hour exam!
Soo true, it's not fair wth😤😤
Grunge does stuff Graphics isn’t enough time to finish the entire course...
Wiskers Games exactly. I sat my exam 2 months ago and ive finished nothing🤭
Try doing computer science and learn how a computer works... How internet works etc ... And then write up a program in 20 hours. Last year it was a board game and have a 2000 word coursework written up.
Gcse Art is a flipping joke.
H J ugh yes. I did my 10 hour exam yesterday and I’m so done with everything.
😂
Yep that shit is boring af
H J my class got told the markers were coming a week early when we were unprepared so now AQA are marking unfinished coursework :’)
except it's not funny and you want to die the whole time
IKR I’m so fucking stressed like I can’t get any of my revision done for any of my other subjects it’s so fucking piss taking
Warning for GCSE students, A level history is on another level from GCSE, it's almost like a completely different subject, you have to learn tons on economics and political policy and manifestos and stuff. Just a warning.
Bryan Higgins thank you
Bryan Higgins I'm still undecided whether or not to do history, I'm just waiting to see how I did in GCSE
Anakin Argent don't let my opinion put you off of taking it! It can be very interesting at times and it'll be enjoyable if you have a good class. The only thing is the amount of info you will need to remember and new concepts such as economics and politics depending on what exam board you do.
Edexcel History 9-1 was shit. Too much bloody content, it was like a joke. One module, warfare through time contained knowledge of loads of battles, training, army compositions, technology and an abundance of specific key evidence from c1250.-present day.770 damn years of History! 😐😑😕😲 Yet the actual paper was literally on 200 years from 1500-1700, I feel bad for those who revised all 770 years.
thank you
Wtf why is this almost all my GCSEs? I’m gonna fail? Help?
F O you’ll do great, just revise loads! What are you taking?
He’s listed many of the common ones, so I take a lot of these as well. They’re definitely not the hardest.
Plot twist: I’m not failing. I do Maths, Religious Education, English Language, English Literature, Biology, Chemistry, Physics (Triple Science), Electronics, Spanish and History
I’ve only got 4 exams left before I’ve finished and I honestly don’t think they were that bad I think the practice papers were 10x worse but I guess I’ll find out on results day
@@frieda5624 what did you get!??
StudyPrsh 8s in Religious Education and physics, 7s in English Lit, Maths and Chemistry, an A in DT: Electronics and 6s in History, Spanish, English Language and Biology
Can we talk about how much work GCSE art is?!?
ikr
MY SCHOOL FORCES US TO DO LANGUAGES AAAAREEEEEEEE 😡😡😡
same
Same and im trash at it !!!!!!!!!!
Omgg that’s soo unlucky we don’t
Yeah bc that's ...I forgot
That’s annoying
Design technology is like the hell spawn of art , science and maths.
Geography kills me internally as well...
DT is very much enjoyable if you like the subject and can see your project through the tears.
SpetsnatzLegion 336 Can u help me with dt please I just got my contextual challenges. My email is d1osoactive@gmail.com
My options are coming up and I was wondering if I should take DT. I’m quite good at handy things, like in the summer I built a bar out of a wooden pallet. Pls help.
@@samwilliams2617 Personally, I enjoyed it but I had to put in quite a bit of my own time out of lessons to actually make my final product.If your quite good with your hands you should have an easier time than me xD The theory is quite tricky but like I said , it feeds into a lot of your other subjects. For my specific spec (AQA), there were some maths questions which you couldn't do unless you were being taught higher maths so please do keep that in mind.
@@ziyujadejiang is geography hard or just boring
NOW YOU BLOODY TELL ME
Raven Lunacy HONESTLY I took Spanish Computer science Drama and History it's hard
@@grapefives7762 History isn't that hard
For design and technology, I literally some days had to stay until 8PM doing DT coursework, due to the stress of how close the deadline was. It was absolutely ridiculous, my school day ends at 4PM (it was the same for everyone, it's not like I was behind)!!!
omfhdfdhfj SAME IT WAS SO STRESSFUL, but DT isn't hard though (i do textiles) i actually find it v easy but the coursework is the longest thing !!!!
If only my teacher did that I would've fricking (keeping it PG) finished I still have to do varnishing and cutting a bit off literally need an hour but my teacher won't come in during holidays, if i don't finish i can't take the finished pictures for my coursework and the due dates on the 16th....smh
Same for me but I had to juggle DT and Art and design at the same time but luckily I finished 👍🏾
Sian El-Louise Obeng well done I struggled getting my DT coursework done in time and I know how time consuming art is so that must've been tuff.
Update: I managed to finish and 100% complete the coursework and practical and I think I got A* in it! I think I only lost a few marks out of 90, I feel like I got 85 or more!
MFL is hardest for me, or maths idk one of them
Gemma Norfolk sc?
I don't find MFL hard I get grade 7-8 and I am year 10, I find computing easy as well.
Personally: Maths isn't a difficult subject for me because its very logical imo. English Literature? YES HATE IT! I'm just wondering why English Langauge isn't on it because isn't it also a difficult subject IMO? Also aren't subjects like English and History where marks are subject to controversy always difficult as it isn't always cut clear when a pupil should be awarded a certain number of marks or not. Whilst with maths, you can go oh the answer is this, the pupil got this, its right/wrong. Just my opinion.
@Charlotte Beaton YASS. Finally someone who agrees with me. Everyone at my school (even teachers) are like 'I've never met anyone who hates english as much as you.' For me maths is like, 'your answer/s are either right or wrong and this is why. Whilst with subjects like english and history (especially literature) there is no wrong or right answer but still my responses are 'not good enough'. BTW: Do you feel the same way about English Lang as you do about English Lit?
Same, I really hate BOTH English Lang and Lit but I hate English Lit more.
French for sure! Failing so bad :((
im with you
is easy im spanish, but i get grade 8s
Iliass Gamer how
French is so stressful, the tenses get so confusing!
I still don't know why I didn't drop it when I had the chance.
I do 2 languages and History for GCSE. Great
I wish I was able to do that
Where is further maths gcse..
If u do AQA Its pretty easy because the new 9-1 Math basically prepares u for both lol
Now if u do Edexcel Further Maths GCSE Youre actually fucked
OMG YASSSSS!!! 😂😂😂
What do you mean `further maths gcse ?` Isn`t that `A` Level ?
Steve DL its also a GCSE
I had no idea. So what kind of questions are asked in a Further GCSE Maths Paper ?
I have started my GCSE courses, and this is what I originally chose:
-spanish
-history
-music
- r/s (sc)
- photography
After about 3 weeks into the courses, I came to a conclusion that Spanish was one of the hardest things I had ever done. GCSE spanish is on another level! Especially if you’re doing higher (which I was). From yr 7-9, Spanish was relatively easy, and I got top grades, but I never really enjoyed it. My parents advised me to take it because they wanted me to go to a top university. I used to come home and bawl my eyes out everyday that I had Spanish because I was so nervous and confused. I even got really ill because of it and the anxiety set in too. After a while I told my parents that I was not prepared to take Spanish,and that unless they wanted ,e to fail I was going to have to drop it. So after carful consideration, we picked an alternative subject. These were my updated GCSEs:
-history
-music
-r/s (sc)
-drama
-photography
While these subjects are now leaning towards the creative side, my school adviser explained how choosing drama would not change anything for my future as I am very creative anyway. I have had drama for 2 weeks now, and so far I am loving it sooo much. I love performing and working in a team, and I also really enjoy my group. The point of this anecdote was just to say, when choosing your GCSEs, don’t make the same mistake I did and chose a subject that you think someone would want you to choose, choose ones that you enjoy. If you enjoy your subjects, your more likely to put in effort to improve, and therefore achieve higher grades. I would rather get high grades in all my GCSEs that fail one of them. Sorry about the ramble!!
i regret taking french
+Rising Stars what year are u
Rising Stars why are you everywhere?
im forced to do french
It seriously depends. It depends on the student, their strengths and weaknesses and the application of teaching and learning by teacher and student respectively.
It’s funny how all my gcse’s iv chosen is on that list except for pe
Macy Graile same with me. I chose engineering, music, history and pe
Same I’m doing drama history and music
I choose geography, french, business Studies and computer science. I dropped CS (way too hard). I can attest to the sheer difficulty of geography and french. It’s actually mad
Aayush Ganesh when I was choosing I couldn’t decide weather or not to choose a language and tbh I’m happy I didn’t
Joesph Stalin it may well come back to bite you in the ass in the future btw 🙄😝
Languages are easily the hardest though. If you get a grade 6 or higher in a language gcse you should consider pushing yourself for proficiency. They’re hard enough to be a good foundation for it. I just wish the speaking exam was entirely a free conversation and not based partly on a role play and picture card (really struggled with the picture card but loved the free conversation)
There's no way I'm passing my GCSE's:
Here's a list of the ones I chose...
Art- Highest grade- B (not bad. It was a book check so not difficult)
Geography- Highest grade- A (complete fluke)
History- Highest grade- C (Hate it)
Maths- Highest grade- A (I cheated) highest grade I didn't cheat to get was a D
English language- Highest grade- A (I'm not bad at English)
English Lit- Highest grade- A (K stfu Scrooge and Hamlet)
Computer Science- Highest grade- A* (K I'm actually legendary at this subject and have straight a's weird flex)
RS full- Highest grade- B (sure whatever. I hate it and I always cheat.
I don't do languages or sciences because I'm messed up and mentally wrong so the school said since I don't have any need for them that I can drop them if I want so I did. Yes it's less GCSE's but I don't want a science job or anything with French. I want to do music. I wanted to choose it for GCSE but I have bad social anxiety so I literally can't talk to people without having a breakdown and they said if I wanted to do it I had to audition in front of 2 teachers in a room and that just sounded horrible so hell no. Ok bye. Sorry for ranting. Just needed to put that out there thanks.
Art should be on there because omg, it’s why I don’t have a life anymore. You are constantly working your sketchbooks and I can safely say that even though music is pretty tough, I found it much harder overall
the hardest part about gcses is that u have 2 do so many
u r expected to fully focus in school, complete all homework assignments AND do revision for all of them- and still have time to sleep, eat, and have a social life
each subject is filled with content, and it is hard not to get overwhelmed with it all
gcse music is the most stressful thing I have ever done, I'm literally in a music room 4/5 lunchtimes a week
Omg same. Had to stay on a number of times until 6pm where I was hungry, tired and drained. Didn't know what to improve and always had technology problems. Had to change everything within the last few weeks because only then did the teacher decide to help. Was it worth it for a 4? No.
Despite the fact we don't need to hand in coursework yet, my teachers are asking for it in two weeks and I havent even staretd!
@@emmytweetie2177 i just changed drama gcse to music gcse .-.
do u think its the theory, the actuall composition or the performance that made it suck, and if you went back what would you do to be better prepared. Also was it the teachers or the "lack"of preparation.
Breakdown, No need to watch the whole thing. No1: MFL No2: History No3: Music No4: English Literature No5: Maths No6: Sciences No7: Engineering No8: Drama No9: Geography No10: Computing / Computer Sciences.
Okay for a start, i can see loads of whiny comments about music. A bit of common sense: dont pick music if you can't even play an instrument/sing well. It won't benefit you. Also, when i say this, i mean you should also be able to compose for your instrument. It's really not that fucking hard
ayesha davis I mean it is hard. you’ve got to do two performances pieces, solo and ensemble which have to be note accurate to a score and fit many criteria’s. you have to compose two full songs that fit certain criteria’s and the first composition has no stimulus or aid it is simply creativity. You also have to learn about 8 topics of theory and learn specific subject content and terminology and be able to apply it when listening to pieces of music in an exam.
Honestly, Geography is so easy for me, it's basically a memory test and I find memorising things relatively easy. So I naturally find it easy to do well.
Saff_ Monster oh fluffy bunny’s and rainbows! 🌈
How do you memorise so easily ?
Music is really hard but amazing at the same time!
Too bad I sucked at it and the teachers weren't any help :(
I really wanted to like it but it was too stressful for me 😅
All my GCSEs are on this list...
7 of my 9 subjects are on this list
Maths
English Lit.
Biology
Chemistry
Physics
French (MFL)
Computer Science
In addition to
English Lang.
Religious Studies
GCSE music isn't hard, everyone who takes it can either sing or already play an instrument, I got an A and I know nothing about music theory. The only reason it would be difficult would be if you were dumb enough to take it without playing an instrument/being able to sing.
have you done the new spec?
I've seen the new spec, it's obviously more difficult but at the end of the day it requires only grade 5 theory skills to pass well. The same remains that if you can play an instrument you will do fine.
i like this guy
Abdulrahman Ahmed Likewise.
Abdulrahman Ahmed May your life be as good as you pretend it is in the comment section👏👏
actually love that all of the subjects that i chose for gcse’s (not compulsory subjects, maths, english lit/lang and science). i can’t wait to fail my exams 😂😂
I’m taking French, history, music and drama(and maths, English and science obviously😂) We have to choose them in year 8 now in my school😬
Bethan Vizard Wtfff
Same. Near the end of year 8
samee loll. just exchanged drama for music. wich one did you like better? and how did u do on all of them.
Textiles!
Agreed!
I got a B in my coursework even though I put in months for it..
It’s my first option !!!!
Hi snap revise please can u do a video on how to get A* or the new grade 8 at gcse.
Further Maths GCSE and English Language should both be on the list. Everyone in my class finds Eng Lang really difficult and we're at a really good school so I feel bad for those who aren't.
I kinda got sad when I picked mine recently, especially that feeling ur going to those subjects, talking to those teachers during lessons and then just remembering that u won't be in a class again till like A level. Idk I'm probably just being sappy lol
He literally said every subject that I’ve taken 😂😭😤🥴
Gcse art students be like: ftyuiuygfghj these aren't hard, I spend 9 hours last night drawing a line
Computing is impossible
I’ve been doing it for over a year and I still can’t code shit.
not impossible. just tough. a lot of it can be rather dull but i feel like it’s gonna end up being a useful GCSE to have
Computing is a dos mate
no its not computing is a joke but that might be because i could code before hand but all the theory is easy
George Head our entire class had to be moved down to Cider at the start of year 11 because we all failed our mocks
I'm not worried about this since in the new options there are new ones and the ones I'm doing are English literature,English language,PE(which everyone has to do),geography,citizenship,maths,business and combined science
I cant believe he memorised all this,,,
You should definitely have added ancient history. Most schools don’t even teach it because of its difficulty and only top students take the gcse let alone may not even pass
My opinion
1. Maths/Further Maths (top end questions are quite analytical)
2. MFL (so much vocab and hard grammar)
3. History/Geography (history slightly harder because there’s much more content, but the exams are generally a pain in the ass)
4. Seperate Sciences
5. Computer Science (there’s just so much damn theory and the practical material requires a certain back for programming)
My subjects were: (if no brackets it was igcse A*-G)
Maths (igcse 9-1)
Further Maths (igcse A^-C)
Physics
Biology
Chemistry
French (gcse 9-1)
Geography (gcse 9-1)
Business Studies
English Language (igcse 9-1)
English Literature
I also took computer science and found it exceptionally challenging. Where I was achieving As and Bs at least in other subjects, I was struggling to even pass in computer science. The problem solving and programming paper was short for the time given but still a significant challenge while the theory paper was especially difficult to handle.
Maths band 9 questions are ridiculously analytical. One of the question on our exam was ‘The sum of the first 48 terms of a series is 4 times the sum of the first 36 terms of the same series. Find the sum of the first 30 terms’. The lower band questions on higher are often multiple step and can require some mathematical aptitude. It is quite a challenge. Further Maths has the same issue but more focused on the top difficulty spectrum
My science igcses we’re pretty similar to the new 9-1 gcse sciences (just more topic depth rather than breadth of topics). They weren’t that bad.
English language exam is nasty. It’s difficult as hell to finish. English Literature the same but less acute. Both are quite difficult. The 9-1 English Literature gcse is horrible though. Learning quotes isn’t the point of literature. Literature is about textual and contextual appreciation. Which the new 9-1 spec does not provide.
French gcse 9-1 writing exam was pretty straightforward for me. Reading was okay as was speaking (though I’d been on an exchange which massively helped my confidence with the language) but Listening was tough. The vocab range was a struggle, and the top grade grammar structures are difficult to learn (especially subjunctive).
Business Studies was very easy for me, though people do find it hard for various reasons. Exam technique was a notable difficulty for me but easily overcome. Content was relatively easy to learn and there wasn’t that much of it though again I saw people greatly struggle with it.
futher maths is a joke how easy it is how can u struggle with it
Alex Johnson sorry arrogant smart arse 😉😝
Also, have you SEEN a further maths paper. You better be getting 100% before making such a bold comment about a subject like that.
i am preety much im averaging 96% in all the papers we have done
History may be hard but I find it fun to write essays and im pretty decent at it
So I basically chose all the hardest subjects for my GCSE options. Where's GCSE further Maths and economics BTW?
Well I took :
Math
English lit and Lang
Combined Science
Spanish
Music
Drama
Religious Studies
My hardest were Astronomy and Further maths
Astonomy????!!!!!?? that's a GCSE???????????
@@ryanadams2747 yh n omddd its hard
I've got a question: I've always loved and been great at art, but I took drama for GCSE instead because I enjoyed it more. Would I still be able to do further art courses in college/university without an art GCSE?
Gcse pe should be on that list gaining a grade on the lower bound of 4 u have to get over 63% that’s barely a C on the old system.
Macy Graile The grade boundaries are screwed but the actual subject is quite easy. Easy 7 or 8.
YES!!
Oh my
Apparently gcse pe isn’t seen as an academic subject but... try to learn everything about the human body and you’ll think twice. I’ve learnt more biology in PE than science and my PE gcse exam has more biology than the science gcse. 😫😩😭😭
Alex Johnson Actually in grammar schools, since everyone already does Higher tier Science (Triple Science), students have an extra choice as they don't need to pick to do this Science. I chose to do PE because all the other subjects seemed like trash.
Dont even get me started on maths😡
It’s actuality December and The stress levels are just ☝️ there
If I do music, do I have to be able to sing as well as play an instrument or can I just play an instrument?
Just play an instrument
My personal top 10 out of what I take (1 being hardest):
1. French
2. Physics
3. Further Maths
4. English Language
5. Chemistry
6. English literature
7. Maths
8. Biology
9. RE
10. History
User Nice one
I have to pick and finalise my options within the next 3 weeks and I was going to pick art but everyone here is commenting on how hard and stressful art is and it's scared me 😣
I was I found this video before I picked mine... I picked them all and further maths
Same...
I do engineering and there’s ALOT of coursework! However it is really fun, but as it’s 75% coursework, I wouldn’t say it’s too hard. It’s mainly time management. I do geography aswell which I found wayyyy harder than I expected, and computer science. I really feel like I’ve cheated in computing as the coursework was cancelled ( aka the bit I CANNOT PASS ), but I’m fairly good at the exams ( getting a 9 in my mock ). I write flowcharts instead of pseudo code and honestly cannot code at all myself😂 The only reason I took it was because it’s compulsory at my school
Would i recommend music gcses and do you know what results your friends may have got
In my drama gcse i have to keep a drama diary in a portfolio
As someone who finished their GCSEs in 2017, I found English Language the hardest and the easiest were the sciences, music and ICT in my opinion.
i do textiles, hospitality and catering, history, art, combined science , english and maths
I NEED HELP: I am doing Gsce soon and i dont know which subject i am going to take,
should i pick Combined science or English
What did u end up picking? And do u recommend music gcse if so why.
Bruh, art. I didn’t do it but from what I saw my friends go through it looked so much more stressful, demanding and difficult that DT which I did.
What about music. Would you recommendd it and do you know what grades your friends may have acheived
All I have to say. Is Latin. Yes we may not need to speak or write. But we have to do English analysing in a Latin text. And translate all different things and a lot of stuff cross over it's impossible as all words have different endings and different structured which tell you different things
The worst part about engineering is definitely: 1) you only get 30 hours (timed) for the entire NEA, from product research to a finished product. 2) bc it’s quite a niche qcse there are absolutely no resources for it. No TH-cam videos, no revision guides, no online quizzes (ie seneca). As my teacher is shit this makes it quite difficult
Literally no one in the comments is doing enginnering it’s a bit tragic....
In my school we all have to take a language and a humanities I chose German, History, Geography and Spanish
For music GCSEs, you have to remember so many words. If you don’t know the meaning of the word (e.g plagal cadence), you won’t understand anything else that is going on.
I understood the words and the meaning, the struggle was identifying them in a short piece of music which is only played 3 times. Identifying the chords within the bar number was impossible and don't get me started on the essays and compositions. Sad thing is, I don't know whether I failed more on the coursework or exam.
Did u enjoy the gcse?
And would revision have made it easier
@@emmytweetie2177 what exam board did you use
I feel psychology should be on this list 🤷♀️
also PRE (philosophy religion ethics) requires you to write like 3-5 pages in 30 minutes(in my exam board which is equadas), and that's really hard to do when you also have to write a persuasive argument and stuff
art subjects are hard due to the actual amount of coursework and gcse work there is, i had a different teacher in year 9 who told us to do the wrong work so i have no coursework for literally 1/3 of the entire gcse course :)))))))))))))
Essays in GCSE languages?
United Kingdom the writing exams
i have 1 hour to write an 150 word essay, a 90 word essay and a translation paragraph without any aid and all from memory
Catriona Crozier We all do ( people that have taken MFL). And it's piss easy 😂
I know very little French but if I had an hour to think, I could get hundreds and hundreds of words/phrases.
its not really an Essay it more a long paragraph
what about latin or Classical Greek?
Sone Aluko counts as Mfl
ayup nur 123 it doesnt
Latin really isn't that hard compared to other subjects
Not really that hard, I admit Ancient Greek is difficult but who takes that apart from us
Where do u study? (if u don't mind me asking)
In the old textiles course (before the new 2018 spec) we have three different sections to do in less than a year. We have to make a garment to a pretty high standard, do a folder worth of coursework and a written test. It's so repetitive but not in a way where you can just like copy and paste your answers. My coursework is due in this week but I'm so far behind and I'm stressing
Lol I took textiles it's so shit
Health and social is hard aswell so much course work
GERMAN IS THE WORST. LEARNT IT FOR 5 YEARS AND I STILL CANT GET A GRADE 4
YerDaSellsAvon I’m not doing GCSEs yet but worddd German is so hard but I ain’t picking it
GEOGRAPHY SO MANY CASE STUDIES TO LEARN
My I think I’m probably gonna choose these list:
Drama
Music
English
Maths
Mandarin or Spanish (have this in my high school)
Geography maybe
History maybe
Art?? Probably not tho cause I can’t draw at all unless I take like 4 hours and it’s something that it actually want to draw
Physics
Biology
That’s all for now but I’m in year 7 so I don’t really know anything
In my old school (where I did year 7 to my GCSE's) you literally have to do:
A language (most people have too)
Religious studies (it's a "religious school" let's be real NO ONE WAS RELIGIOUS)
And history or geography (you can't do 2 languages or ditch RS and your other Humanities subject)
I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE DONE SPANISH BUT NOO (I didn't get signed up for it instead I did French (which I can already fluent speak in)) but at least a didn't have to revise for it and got a 9 🤷🏿♀️ would have maybe preferred to do 2 languages or 3 opinions eg: food, textiles and business or French, Spanish, Food and textiles
Music isn’t too difficult in my opinion, the people in my school who take dance seem to be more stressed than people in my class, but maybe that’s because myself and the people in my class enjoy listening to and playing music a lot. I find dt and business a lot more stressful and time consuming there’s too much coursework.
Ah, just *coincidently* the 10 I am studying. NICE ONE.
Computer science isn’t as hard as people say. It’s like maths. You either fully understand it or you don’t understand it at all
Motherfukn Maths, although the grade boundaries are super low, it's still impossible
My family and teachers told me to join gcse art as i’ve won many competitions and am pretty good at painting. I joined gcse art thinking that it would be an easy walk in the park and boy i was WRONG. I had to make over 16 paintings in a week, take a whole lotta photos, find artist references, search for their history, and at the same time study for other subjects too. On top of all that, the final exam is ONLY 10 HOURS. I had to paint an a2 piece in the course of 10 hours which is practically quite impossible. If i hear one more person say that gcse art is just an easy walk in the park, they boutta catch these ass whoopins from me😤
This sounds like a gcse PETAL paragraph about GCSEs
The people complaining about art need to look at other GCSEs it's acctually so easy
I'm surprised Economics gcse is not on this list
Blessings' hair and Lifestyle everyone in my class is getting As and A*s in eco lol
We didn’t even get the option to do economics
Only some schools teach it and it so happens my school teaches it. The reason why I think it's hard but not impossible is because I take the new GCSE 9-1 course which was the old A level. They brought down the A level to GCSE. Economics GCSE used to be more like business studies but now it is much harder and you actually have to have an established understanding it's not like a maths test that you can just 'wing it'.
The CIE Economics board consists of two papers. The first being multiple choice and the second being a data response. The content is quite hard however the paper is said to be still hard but easier than the content if you get what I'm trying to say.
Spanish is too easy for me ngl. However I struggle in geography and physics. Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses ig
Did you just name all of the subjects?
If you think about it, MFL's are the EASIEST subjects. You spend your whole life in education studying subjects like science and maths up to your GCSE exams, but a language can be learned to a good proficiency in a year if it is studied everyday for one hour. :)
I cant focus on something for more than an hour so there's that.
So, basically every subject I’m doing for GCSE?? Nice.
GCSE math, geography, additional math n comp. Science are ezeee af
I'm doing:
English lit.
English Lang.
Maths HIGHER
Physics
Chem.
Bio.
History
Catering
French
Religious studies
and citizenship/PSHCE but it's not actually a GCSE, I have it every 2 weeks
bruh, I'm doing
• English Language
• English Literature
• Maths (Higher)
• Chemistry (Higher)
• Biology (Higher)
• Physics (Higher)
• Spanish (Higher)
• History
• Geography
• Economics
You have just said almost all the subjects so technically this means GCSE is a hard exam
One of my school friend got a Grade A in English Literature but
Grade C in English Language and
Grade A in Maths!
Help I don’t know whether I should drop art for health and social care or not bc I keep hearing it’s stressful and there’s a lot of time consuming work
Personally I believe Classical Greek is the hardest GCSE. The amount of vocabulary you need to learn not to mention all the declensions and grammatical rules will challenge even the most able student !
I'm a psychology student and I find that quite hard because it is nothing like you have ever practiced or learnt before! It is a whole new turn to get good at and only in two years! just saying...
Wow, I'm doing literally all of these
History
Geography
English lit
English lang
Maths
Combined science
Music
Plus, if anyone reads this please help me because I don't know if I should drop geography or not...
@@irisburke2989 ig it depends if ur good at remembering stuff cuz from what I've heard from people who have taken geography, u have to remember a lot of facts and stuff, but im not 100% that's just what people have told me
Hope this helps
@@irisburke2989 imo you might as well not drop it, it's better to do the exam anyway at the end so you at least have a possibility of passing/doing well, and if you get a rubbish mark and fail then it doesn't matter because you're no worse off than if you had dropped it 🤷♀️
Noo i go to a frickin engineering academy😭
Hardly any schools or colleges offers engineering or computer science at GCSEs anymore. I really wanted to do engineering GCSEs