The School Thread!

[Sarka]

As many of us go to school I just realised that there was no school thread so I thought I'd start one. What are everyone's fav subjects? I love Maths, Physics, Computing and Accounts... I am kinda nerdy. :p

I have 4 tests this upcoming week, a Physics test on Transport, a Accounts test about Unit 1 (Personal Finance, Budjets and Receits and Payments sheets), a History test about Farming in the 1800's and a Maths test on Transport.

What's up with everyone else, btw I'm in S3 (England equivilant is Year 10 I believe).

We need a equivilant chart for England and Scotland. Here's what I know, please correct me if I'm wrong:

England/Scotland:

Years:
Year 8/S1
Year 9/S2
Year 10/S3
Year 11/S4
Year 12/S5
Year 13(6th form)/S6

Exams:
GCSE/Standard Grade
??/Intermidiate
??/Higher
??/Advance Higher

[Blackfox]

I go to college. Its alright.

Currently doing: geography, chemistry and biology. They can be good subjects but can also be hard and full of work. I also have a shit load of homework to do. 2 tests on monday, and a few case studies to write up.

Im in year 13 btw.

[Calza]

I like maths and i'm really good at it, but Sarka, how can you like Acounting + Finace it sucks. We've just starts Profit and Loss acounts and it soooo boring. I also hate french but then who dosnt?

[Big Red]

as you all no, i cant write for shit, but im at uni doing architecture and its bloody hard work.
when i was at school english was my favorit subject, with duel science's, maths just gave me a headache.but mostly creative subjects was what cept me from pullin out my hair and high tailin out of their.

and im deffinetly not a test person.......

[Kurtle Squad]

I'm in year 13 6th form doing Physics, Phychology & ICT. It's a shit school and I was SO stressed before 1/2 term I went home one day after 1st period, couldn't take anymore bullshit. It'll probably be like that tomorrow as well. I feel like shit right now!!

[Indigo]

I'm at sixth-form college at the moment, studying Maths (Pure and Stats), Politics, English Lit. and Theology. As far as the work is concerned, I'd say I'm coping okay, although I'm definitely finding some aspects of it frustrating. Theology is easily my favourite subject I'm studying at the moment, with Maths being the source of most of my frustration. It's early days though.

I'm sure the majority of people hold this view, but I've gotta say that I'm enjoying the social aspect of college much more than the academic side. I've made quite a number of friends (mostly upper-sixth) since I started in September, and so socially I feel more content than ever.

[Sarka]

Sarka, how can you like Acounting + Finace it sucks. We've just starts Profit and Loss acounts and it soooo boring.

No one else in the class likes it but it's my favorite subject by far! My mum is an accountant and when I was little I used to draw up little things that are suprisingly similiar to stuff we do in acounts. I guess I just love money! I'm doing Double Entry at the moment and it's the highlight of my week! lol

[Twozzok]

In year 11 atm.

Fave subjects are easily Maths, and Art.

Maths because it's easy. (well what we were doing. doing statistics now which is kinda like maths, but myeh, more to do with formulas)

Art because you don't need to be a good artist as it's so open, like at the moment, i'm creating 3d hexagonal'ish things.

[Stranger]

Sixth form. Studying English, History, Theatre Studies and German.

It's hard work.

Especially when you leave it all to the last day of half term, like I have.

[Raining_again]

your year 7 in england would be year 8 in northern ireland and so on.

im not in school anymore, my best subject was maths and art. maths was something i could really get my teeth into, and art always was chilled and relaxing.

good taste in subjects twozzok :heh:

[EEVILMURRAY]

University. Media Studies.

It's going alright, too much fucking reading for my liking. But I do only have about 12 hours of lectures/seminars a week.

[Big Red]

Sixth form. Studying English, History, Theatre Studies and German.

It's hard work.

Especially when you leave it all to the last day of half term, like I have.

last minuet man, thats what always gets me into hot water but, it does make my brain work,and i find i can get things done with better results, if u i dont push the boat out to far

[Charlie]

I'm in 5th year (S5) and I'm doing Maths, English, Physics, Computing and PE all at Higher level. My favourite subject is PE because I love doing sports, computing is a skive, so is English really. Maths is really hard work as is Physics.

[Stocka]

God don't remind me:angry:
I hate school. My school at least anyway. Its just so boring, I can't wait to go to College next year and do things I actually want to do. I'm in Year 11 now, and next year I'm gonna do A levels at College for:
Photography
ICT
Media Stuides
1 other thing(haven't decided yet)

This term between now -> Xmas is gonna be shite, always is. Weather is depressing and nothing good happens hardly. Then January I have my mochs, then May/June coursework.YAY, the time I'm suppose to be revising I'll have an Xbox 360, online DS games, Zelda: Twilight Princess and possibly a Revolution if its out in May(unlikely).E3 too, talk about distractions. Joy.

Can't wait to leave school and go to college.

[Jordan]

A2 doing English, Psychology and Law.
Fun.. yeah right. I get 2 essays to do a week. It's bloody annoying.

[Wesley]

First year of 6th form taking Psychology, Government and Plitics and Double ICT Applied.

It's all good fun.

[McMad]

Man i'm like a baby compared to the rest of you lot, i'm in year 9 just starting my GCSEs. :weep:
My favourite subjects probably are History and Geography. I *$@#ing HATE MATHS!!!!

[Sarka]

Man i'm like a baby compared to the rest of you lot, i'm in year 9 just starting my GCSEs at ***EDIT***. :weep:

Do you mean your started your GCSE's or you will be after the summer?

[McMad]

Do you mean your started your GCSE's or you will be after the summer?
Fuck sakes man i just edited my post because i realised it was stupid to say where i went to school on a forum. Anyway i've just started my GCSEs, we start them a year early at my school and if we're good enough we can do some of our exams in Year 10.

[Sarka]

Fuck sakes man i just edited my post because i realised it was stupid to say where i went to school on a forum. Anyway i've just started my GCSEs, we start them a year early at my school and if we're good enough we can do some of our exams in Year 10.

Cool, that's a really good idea, plus a year less of having to do the crappiest of subjects like Craft and Design, and Home Economics.

[uəʌəsʎɐɾ]

A2 doing English, Psychology and Law.
Fun.. yeah right. I get 2 essays to do a week. It's bloody annoying.
a whopping TWO a week?! Wow, poor you.

I do english A2, psychology AS, psychology A2 and philosophy & Ethics AS. I get at least 5 essays a week.

[McMad]

Thanks for editing your post Sarka. :grin:

[rizz]

First year of college.
Psychology - teacher is funny, good, but not great. Him being funny makes the lessons good though.
Media - Like, yup.
History - we have 3 teachers all doing something different, which makes it like 3 different lessons instead of 1, :-/
ICT - boring as fuck.

College is not bad. Hmm... Not bad.

[Konfucius]

I was in school the last 12 years (I'm 18 now) - eight of them in grammar school (keep in mind the Austrian school system is different).
I want to go to Uni next year, currently I'm doing civil service because in Austria at the age of 18 every male has to either go to the military for nine month or do civil service for 12 month.
My favorite subjects were Math, Physics, Geography, Latin, English and Sport

[KingJoe]

I can't be arsed gog back to school tomorrow.
Fav subject maths, least fave PSHCE (why do they make me do it!!?)
And I'm a teacher, too.

[Stefkov]

i go to high school, in my last year, favourite subjects would probably be IT and electronics. worst, dont know why i took it: art

[fatnickc]

Favourite subjects : Maths, Physics, Electronics, Japanese (after school thing)
Least favourite thing about my school : Saturday morning lessons - Latin, Greek, Maths, English, French.

[Stefkov]

you do japanese, i loathe you

[Monopolyman]

6th form 1st year. It's OK. I'm doing...

Maths- practically impossible at AS
English- A tad boring
Psychology- It's OK
Government & Politics- I have like one of the best teachers in the school, and possibly the shitest one in the school, so it balances out as OK.

The worst thing about my school is that they give all my homeworks on a thursday and Friday, and expect it in the following Monday, and nothing else the rest of the week, so yoiu can feel my annoyance there.

[Ashley]

I hated school, but college was fun - the first time. Did my A levels and that was all rocking, cause I aced them with ease but I've gone to a different college to do an art foundation and I dunno, its just not clicking. I may drop out, its just so blah. And I think I could do with some time off before uni, just to relax as I rarely relax.

[Calza]

Favourite subjects : Maths, Physics, Electronics, Japanese (after school thing)
Least favourite thing about my school : Saturday morning lessons - Latin, Greek, Maths, English, French.
You get to Japanese, awww man my school sucks :weep:

[Shorty]

I'm in New Jersey, USA right now for a Gap Year, then I'm heading back to grab me a degree in English Studies probably with a minor in Creative Writing.

[|Laguna|]

owww. I wish my school offered Japanese :(

[Big Red]

I hated school, but college was fun - the first time. Did my A levels and that was all rocking, cause I aced them with ease but I've gone to a different college to do an art foundation and I dunno, its just not clicking. I may drop out, its just so blah. And I think I could do with some time off before uni, just to relax as I rarely relax.

art foundation courses do tend to be a bit crap, thats why i didnt do one.
to get into uni i just went down with my portfolio high jacked the nearest tutor and, blah blah blahed my way in. :awesome:

[Stocka]

owww. I wish my school offered Japanese :(
Same here, my school is useless, nothing good about it.

[Shorty]

You get to Japanese, awww man my school sucks :weep:

They also go into school for Saturday morning lessons, would you really make that trade?

[entropy]

Damn, I feel so old, can't believe I left school over 4 years ago!
Currently in 3rd year of uni studying mathematics & computer science. Anyone thinking of doing either of these in university, I advise you not to.

[Calza]

They also go into school for Saturday morning lessons, would you really make that trade?
Probably, as i really want to learn it as i want to Japan for a gap year, but i heard its difficult as they have three alphabets or something like that.

[Ashley]

art foundation courses do tend to be a bit crap, thats why i didnt do one.
to get into uni i just went down with my portfolio high jacked the nearest tutor and, blah blah blahed my way in. :awesome:

Well you see I was going to go to uni this year but didnt feel ready and what not so I decided to do a local art foundation to kill time and make sure I didn't lounge around doing nothing. I may end up lounging around by the looks.

[Zakatu]

I'm not at school!

But when i was.... favourite subjects were physics and geography.

Least favoruite would be french and i.c.t (repetitive, menial tasks)

[Eenuh]

Hmmm, in secondary school I kinda loved the language subjects. Latin, French, English... Dutch was a bit less fun because of all the stupid reading and plays you had to do (and of course it's just my mother language, so it's not like you're really learning anything new and interesting).
I also liked Biology, especially in the last year when it was about genes and stuff. Geography was okay, as was history.
Absolutely -hated- Maths, as that subject almost made me fail my 5th year in secondary school. Stupid me of course had to pick a Maths oriented direction in school. Ah well.

But my one true love was Art. Never had it much in secondary school, but I'm making up for that now by studying Animation. In my 3rd year now; got one more to go after this one. It's -a lot- of work, but in a way I'm sort of enjoying it most of the time. Of course not starting to really get some work done till the last minute might be a bit of a silly thing to do, but I guess I work best under pressure. ='3

[Big Red]

Well you see I was going to go to uni this year but didnt feel ready and what not so I decided to do a local art foundation to kill time and make sure I didn't lounge around doing nothing. I may end up lounging around by the looks.

it,s not a bad thing, some guy on my course is 34, and hasent had a job for 10 years, now thats loungeing!!!

[|Laguna|]

Meh, in Year 11. My school's allright although I'm absolutly bogged down with coursework and I've done next to none this 1/2 term which, looking back was extremly foolish.
Scared like hell of not getting the grades and not getting back into my school's sixth form. I go to a Grammer School so they demand uber l33t GCSE grades which keeps me awake some nights with worry.
So far I've done allright in all my coursworks minus Biology although I've got such a bad teacher, she brakes down and starts crying frequently :/
Drama can be the worst but also best if you're doing well and everything is coming along smoothly, however Im in a group of uncreative morons for a devised (make up your own scripts and scenes) groupand I'm really worried as we've only got a 5 minute scene out of a needed 30minute peice, and we're performing Nov 11 :(

[Roostophe]

I'm also in Year 11. I'm doing English, Maths, Physics, Biology and Chemistry (what's the point in Science double award, Science every day, it's like being in Primary School again), IT, PSHE, RE (one lesson a fortnight of RE, it's alright, tho.), PE, and I chose to do Drama, Music, History and I did do Business Studies in year 10, but my estimated grade was a 'G', so I dropped it so I could catch up with coursework and homework.

I enjoy English because it's so bloody simple. I got an 'A*' on a piece of coursework, Music because I can play guitar in the lesson and not be bothered too much, I'm supposed to be composing my own piece of music but I've been doing that at home. PE although I was doing rugby but I think I don't do it anymore, might be doing trampolining now, wish I wasn't, tho. I'd rather do football. I wish they'd do football as a seperate lesson.
And Drama is my favourite because of what happened in year 10. I'll tell you, i'm quite proud of this:
When I started Drama GCSE my teacher only predicted I'd get a 'C'. Then we did the devised exam and I got a 19/30 mark, lost marks because my hair covered up my face so they couldn't see my facial expressions.
Then in March/April we did a scene from Billy Liar, where I played Geoffrey, Billy's dad. I got 23/30, lost marks because I lost my northern accent when I started shouting.
Into June, and my teacher's telling us our new estimated grades, And my estimated grade jumped from a 'C', all the way up to an 'A'. This made me more popular, because I surprised everyone with my drama capabilities.
Now I'm doing Scripted, i'm doing 'Find Me', a play about a schizophrenic girl named Verity.
Now, I've cut my hair and I don't need to put an accent on. Therefore I am bound to get an 'A' in this exam if I don't mess up.
Because of Drama, I now have 5 more MSN contacts, all from Drama, and my Drama teacher is my year 11 mentor.


Drama can be the worst but also best if you're doing well and everything is coming along smoothly, however Im in a group of uncreative morons for a devised (make up your own scripts and scenes) groupand I'm really worried as we've only got a 5 minute scene out of a needed 30minute peice, and we're performing Nov 11 :(

Bloody hell, I thought my drama class was bad enough. The head of Drama at my school has had to put the exam back a week so our class could get more work done, whereas all the other groups are ready.
But you're doing devised in year 11? I thought everyone did scripted in year 11. I did devised in year 10.

[|Laguna|]

When I started Drama GCSE my teacher only predicted I'd get a 'C'. Then we did the devised exam and I got a 19/30 mark, lost marks because my hair covered up my face so they couldn't see my facial expressions.
Then in March/April we did a scene from Billy Liar, where I played Geoffrey, Billy's dad. I got 23/30, lost marks because I lost my northern accent when I started shouting.
Into June, and my teacher's telling us our new estimated grades, And my estimated grade jumped from a 'C', all the way up to an 'A'. This made me more popular, because I surprised everyone with my drama capabilities.
Now I'm doing Scripted, i'm doing 'Find Me', a play about a schizophrenic girl named Verity.
Now, I've cut my hair and I don't need to put an accent on. Therefore I am bound to get an 'A' in this exam if I don't mess up.
Because of Drama, I now have 5 more MSN contacts, all from Drama, and my Drama teacher is my year 11 mentor.
Bloody hell, I thought my drama class was bad enough. The head of Drama at my school has had to put the exam back a week so our class could get more work done, whereas all the other groups are ready.
But you're doing devised in year 11? I thought everyone did scripted in year 11. I did devised in year 10.

Well, we had an abolsute beast of a teacher in year 9, an good ole Ozzie, and we got quite far ahead as we started doing our GCSe course in half way through Year 9. So we did a devised and a scrripted piece so we could fall back on that if we cocked up our final piece. However, then it was discovered that our great teacher was a peadophile :/ So we got mucked about for 1/2 a year with cover teachers all the time so now we are deperately trying to speed up.

Last year for my scripted I did Billy Liar as well :) :) :). What scene did you do? I was forced to do a dualogue due to the crappy cover teacher at the time didn't know how to split a class evenly so I did the scene in which Billy and Arthur are messing about. I can still remember most of the lines heh. "Now where them passion pills etc"
"Bluddy hell, you carnt do that, it was just last night I was teelling me Mum she'd had a miscarriage"
etc
got a goodish mark for it bu due to us losing a teacher AGAIN we never got our essay pieces on it back :/


But now we have a good good teacher. Worked for 4 years and a student in her class has never got lower than an A.
Also, our devised isn't a major thing, just something we have to do :S.
Our scripted peice is our big daddy final assessment piece

[Kurtle Squad]

That sucks Konifius!! I THINK Spain does that kidna thing too, or they're expected to at least.

[Sarka]

In our schoolw e don't really get predicted grades so we predict them from your end of unit tests. I wish we did get predicted grades though, it'd make it far more fun!..... Of course I'm not a nerd! Sheesh!

[Offerman]

I also do not go to school anymore. However I was pretty partial to History, Geography, English and Science.

[GoonFace]

I'm in year 12 at the moment, studing Maths, Biology, Chemistry and Business Studies. I seem to be in a bad situation, where I hate all my subjects and teachers. The only good point is that recently Business Studies has become mildly interesting. Here's hoping the same happens with the other subjects.

[Bluejay]

I've just started japanese after school too, but I don't have saturday school.

[Rolf]

I've just finished school.

Yesterday.

Go me.

Now I'm a bit scared.

[RoadKill]

but I guess I work best under pressure. ='3

*lies on top of you to crush you*

[The Peeps]

6th form, year 12 :P

Doing English Lit, Psychology, History and Media Studies.

Had a migraine yesterday... hurt like hell :(

[Big Red]

6th form, year 12 :P

Doing English Lit, Psychology, History and Media Studies.

Had a migraine yesterday... hurt like hell :(

dont have it yet, but it will come later. for now im just left with the shakes, as i have not yet been to bed.

i hate authographical drawin, it sucks hard. so much easy'er to move obects around a 3d inviroment on a computer

it does every thing for you, and you get to sleep - now i have to endure the rest of the day in a librey task. right now is the only time i wished i was back in school or collage :sad:

[old_gregg]

photography
ICT
Media Stuides
1 other thing(haven't decided yet).

Those are some pis easy subjects man. ICT is just a soft form of Computing, Phtography is Taking pictures, and to get an A in MediaStudies you only have spell your name correctly on the Test. It depends which Uni you go to but if you wanna go a decent Uni studin a Science or Computer subject you'll end up having to do a Foundation year or different subject.

Having not done a Science myself thats the stituation i'm in, so take it from me DO A SCIENCE SUBJECT to A2 standard or you'll limit your options after College.

[Sarka]

At the moment I'm personally thinking that I will do some accountancy course after I leave school and because a hideously rich finance director, or somehting. I got my first test results back for Account's and Finance an dI got 100%, yay! Go me!

[Big Red]

At the moment I'm personally thinking that I will do some accountancy course after I leave school and because a hideously rich finance director, or somehting. I got my first test results back for Account's and Finance an dI got 100%, yay! Go me!

wow thats good..........ever thought about being a criminal master mind :wink:

[Mr. Bananagrabber]

Im in sixth form now. So I get up late, work for half the day and then go home.

[Sarka]

wow thats good..........ever thought about being a criminal master mind :wink:

Well *strokes chin* no, my empathy is far to high. If I ever stole something from someone I'd feel so bad and cry myself to sleep about it. I felt bad when I gave 55p on the bus instead of 65p... I can still remember that and it was months ago. I just realised a wrote a paragraph answering a joke quetion... oh well! :grin: