just curious to know, what subjects do you guys take in GCSEs? i'm taking english, chinese, math, coordinated science, history, geography and music. is history and geography hard in the exam? i want to know because i want to carry on history next year....

i'm so surprise that im put into add. math class this year!! oh my god i seriously know where my math is up to, i really dont have a mathematical brain but my teacher just doesnt believe me.....i'm so worried about the coming exam! how is additional math different from extended math?

I took mine this year and did Engligh Language and Literature, Maths, Sciences, History, French, Music, Sociology, Graphics.

I did mine in 2004 and I did: biology, chemistry, physics, maths, english language, english literature, spanish, religious studies, PE, history, DT: product design and ICT.

Unfortunately no music as the music department was awful!

I did mine in 1997 (Maths) and 1998 (Statistics, D & T Systems, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, IT, Classical Civilisation, French, English Lit., English Lang.).

When I take exams in yr 11 I will take; Eng Language and Literature, Maths, Statistics, As Science (I'm doing gcse science in yr 10), French, German, History, Music and Dt Food.

I'm doing Maths, statistics, double science, english literature and language, media studies, music, german and history. I've also already done shortcourse food and re

I do Maths, English, English Lit, Double Science, German, History, Spanish, Music, Short course RE, short course PE, short course ICT, and Japanese.

Of those I've already done Maths and Japanese so next summer I'd be doing AS maths.

I did Music (2000) Maths, Double Science, English Language, RS, German, Geography and Ecomonics (2001)

Going into Year 11 in September, and I took:

Maths, English, English Lit, Triple Science, French, Music, Electronics, Geography, IT, RE

Absolutely hate taking English exams though!

how come you guys take so many subjects?? and like 3 or more languages!! how can you do that? im dying even though i only take 8 subjects!

I take loads of subjects because three of them are short courses. Short courses are extremely annoying but it was compulsary in my school. Since it's a different subject, I tend to put in as much effort as my other subjects but it only amounts to half a GCSE, and I can't imagine how one is meant to put your short course GCSE grades onto your CV... "I've got half an A in ICT" doesn't sound so flashy.

We get forced to take them a) to fill up our timetables! and B ) because schools are forced to mee ttargets and get so many people through so many exams......

Althought the only compulsory subject to do is R.E The rest are under governmental guidelines

I did french, german, music, history, double science, english lit, english language, Maths, GNVQ ICT and one more but can't for he life of me think what it is!

Are you american?

i'm doing maths, english lit, english, french, chemistry, biology, physics, rs, history and half course I.T next year (2006) and i've just done music!!

I did media studies (1997), Maths, Eng lit, Eng lang, Dual science, History, Music, French, IT and Food tech (1998)

I've already taken Music, and next year I'm taking English, English Literature, Maths, Double Science, French, German, History and ICT.

In 2004 I did:

Maths, English lit, English lang, Seperate biology chemistry and physics, Spanish, History, Music, SC RE, SC IT.

Next year (y11) IM doing exams in Maths, Eng lang and Eng lit, French, History, RE, Economics, and Double Science

I did Chinese and Music this year...but school STILL havent posted my results...

No 3 son is just about to go into Year 10. He will be taking English Lang., English Lit., Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Maths, German, full course R.E., Drama and Music, with short course Citizenship (because he has R.E. as a full-course option). He may also get the chance to do AS Critical Thinking in Year 11 if the school continues to offer it.

When I took O levels in the 1970s I did English Lang., English Lit., Maths, Physics, Latin, French, German, History, Geography and R.E. None of this compulsory 3 sciences then, so I could do three languages instead. I wasn't allowed to take music, as I didn't own a piano.

Back in the 80s I did Maths, Physics-with-Chemistry, French, German, Latin, English Language, English Lit., Music, History and Computer Studies. The last of these was done when I was in the Lower 6th - after I'd got stroppy about being allowed to do it (a bit modern for that school at the time)

Our school didn't offer the two sciences as separate 'O' levels. And I wasn't allowed to do German 'A' level because I only got a B at 'O' level .

How ridiculous.

I took my GCSEs in '95.

I had to do Eng Lang, Eng Lit, Maths, 3 sciences (top set had to do all 3) and a combined CDT/other design subject GCSE - I did textiles with the CDT.

I chose to do French, Music and Art. Would've done German too if it weren't for stinky CDT option...

I didn't mind doing all the sciences or actually the rest of the compulsory options, but I hated having to do the CDT thing, and would really have liked to continue German.

I didn't want to do 12 GCSEs, I was made to by the school! I was only meant to do short course ICT and RS but had to do full GCSEs instead! I also had to do separate sciences because I was in top set.

Our school only does 9 GCSEs whereas most do 10 i think....doesnt matter as im doing 11 anyway! hmmmm

I think at my school we do 10 1/2 GCSE's or 11 1/2 GCSE's if your good at science.

At my school you do 10 1/2, 11 if you're good at dt, and everyone does key skills ict

At mine you ended up with 10.

we do 11 1/2 at our school

Most people do 10 GCSEs at our school, but people who are good at maths take statistics as well in yr 11, and people who are good at Science take science in yr 10 (both exams) and As Combined Science in yr 11.

Does doing more subjects give you an advantage or something? Because if they don't, I don't really see the point of taking more or less subjects than others...

I don't really see the point of the half GCSEs since it would look a bit stupid to write on you CV, "I have 10 1/2 GCSEs." To me (If I were an employer) it would look like they were only half the way to passing. A bit pointless to me.

Exactly!! That's why I hate doing all my short courses (RE, ICT and PE), but my school made me do them. I would much rather have done a full course for two of them and drop the other one...

RE and PE are compulsory up until the age of 16, so maybe they thought it might be worthwhile to get some sort of qualification out of it. We don't take exams in the national core subjects (excluding eng maths and sci) at our school since I think the school think that it's an unecessary pull on both the normal timetable and the exams timetable. It makes the lessons more relaxed in some ways I think, and gives us a break from our other "serious" lessons. We can however, take RE and PE full course if we want to. I have nothing against the "core" subjects being taken as short courses apart from the fact that I think it causes unecessary stress since you have to study them anyway. It's when people take a short course in French and subjects like that. Those are the ones that I think are REALLY pointless. "Wow. I have half a GCSE in French. Great"

Oh I wondered what the whole short course thing was about - so you just get half a GCSE? I thought you just had to work really hard and do the whole subject in a year. Yes, crazy...

Short Courses are just as hard as a full GCSE, they simply have less material in the syllabus. I write my RE grade the same way on my CV as I do any other sbuject.

At my school most people only took 9 GCSE's, I only got to choose two subjects. And that was really hard when I had every teacher trying to get me to take their subjects! (Except perhaps PE! )

I did music fast track and we did all the stuff in a year (only found out today that i got A* YAY!) We do 9 at school too though. I suppose really we choose 4 subjects but two of them have to be a compulsary humanity and modern language, the other 2 can be whatever you want. Neither RE nor IT is compulsary here though. Obviously we have PE lessons but they dont even do the GCSE at my school. Ive not had IT lessons since y8 as we didnt have them in y9 and i not doing the GCSE but i AM doing RE GCSE, the people who dont have to do 'general re' lessons, meaning that they learn more or less the same stuff but dont have homework and dont do an exam in it. (we get a free period while they do that!) But i dont really see the point in doing the lessons if you're not working for an exam but just working because the 'government says you have too'...

The same reason one can learn a musical instrument without taking exams - they want you to learn RE to get something out of it, not particularly to test you in what you learnt.

But the point is that nobody actually listens because there isnt even an exam they can 'fail' , they just doodle or talk so nothing comes out of it anyway!

But if the shcools didn't timetable it then they could have criminal action taken against them. Schools have to timetable the lessons, even if not all of the lessons are spent doing RE. In our core RS lessons at school in yr 10 + 11 we watch videos and discuss the morals etc behind them. Like we watched Bend It Like Beckham in yr 9 and discussed some of the ethics behind it. They can still be classed as RS lessons, but in fact all we do is watch videos....

I swear IT is meant to be compulsary too though...how come we dont do it/

I don't have to do IT or RE.

WE do RE because the HEad wants us to. We do IT as we have a spare lesson and we have to Citizenship because apperently the givernment wants us to do it,

1 tutor in our school made their form do the citizenship GCSE. No one else had to do it.

We have a lesson called 'life skills' which i suppose is like citizenship...you're supposed to sit there and talk about drugs and the environment and stuff but we gave up last year after our tutor got bored, got out the sheet she was supposed to be reading off and folded it into a paper aeroplane...

Ah ha! In Scotland this is called PSE and is the most pointless subject in the world as we swnt the hour doing absolutely nothing and was just a waste of time and would have been better spent on an extra subject that we could do instead of all this PSE,RE and PE stuff as if we didnt do that we could have another subject! Any way in scotland we do 8 standard grades equivent of GCSEs.

We have PSE and Citizenship!!!

Ah, we do lifeskills as well, they force us to take GCSE humanities.

We don't have a set citizenship lesson. Instead, our school teaches it within other subjects such as history and re. We do have to do citizenship assignments though sometimes. The one that I had to do in yr 9 was about the right to vote, and whether everyone should should be forced to vote or not. At our school we have to take one language and one dt, and we are advised to take a take a humanities, but we don't have to.

We only have to take maths english science citizenship, IT , RE (6 and half GCSEs) and then we have 4 choices of our own.

We had to do: Maths, English, Science, a DT subject, a humanities subject. But this year a DT subject isn't compulsory.

I hated that DT was compulsory - I would've taken German instead.

I'm soooo glad DT wasn't compulsory as it was easily my worst subject ever. I just haven't got any talent in that direction.

We had to do Maths, English Lang and Lit, Physics, Chemistry, Biology (which some people dropped to a double award Science after Year 10), I.T., a modern language, a humanity and two own choices.