• Question: For GCSE did you do all the science subjects, or did you do specific science subjects?

    Asked by zazi.x to Alessandra, Dimitrios, Niamh, Becky, Stacey, Tony on 10 Jun 2017. This question was also asked by 562smaj26.
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      Niamh Ryall answered on 10 Jun 2017:

      I had to take a mix of subjects, the choices were a bit like this:
      Separate sciences (3 separate GCSEs – but most people don’t do this, my school was weird)
      History/Geography (I took geography, I don’t know why, it was pretty boring)
      Art/Music/Drama (I took art)
      French/German (I took French)
      English and English literature
      Maths
      Design and Technology (I did resistant materials)
      we also did ICT GCSEs early for some reason too.

      There’s so many ways into engineering professions though. There’s GCSEs, BTECs, apprenticeships from 16 or 18, all kinds of training.There’s even crash courses in programming out there.

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      Stacey Marple answered on 10 Jun 2017:

      Hi zazi.x I studied double science, so all the science subjects.

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      Rebecca Bennett answered on 11 Jun 2017:

      For GCSE’s I did a a combined Science double award.
      For A level I did Physics. Looking back now I wish I had done chemistry to help me with my current role!

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      Alessandra Treviso answered on 12 Jun 2017:

      I did my high school in Italy and things are a bit different there.
      I attended the “Scientific High School” which means that you have to study Maths and Physics from the first year (when you are 13-14 years old) until the end (18-19 years old). We also studied biology in the 2nd and 3rd year, chemistry in the 4th and Geology and Astronomy in the 5th. Beside that we have to study Italian and English literature, History, Philosophy, Latin, Arts and PE. And all of them are compulsory. For the final exam I had to revise all of them, excluding biology and chemistry because we study them in the first few years. We were meant to have IT classes too but we used an old programming language and never got into it. I regret it now, though.

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