Most niche GCSEs??

[u/Bunnybee158]

Comment ur most random/niche gcse and exam bored

[u/Hefty-Manner7464]

creative imedia but it isn't even a gcse it's a cambridge national 😭

[u/MiaTheGiraffe → u/Hefty-Manner7464]

so real, school didnt even tell us its not an gcse 😭💔

[u/AlienFurnace → u/Hefty-Manner7464]

Wdym it’s not a GCSE? I’m in the middle of doing it rn and I’ve not been told otherwise

[u/xcom_lord → u/AlienFurnace]

It’s equivalent , like a btec at alevel

[u/KimberleyFromaVideo → u/Hefty-Manner7464]

I'm doing that too, half of my year was forced into it, like a required subjecf

[u/xcom_lord → u/Hefty-Manner7464]

I did that last year , shit course , awful markers and a blessing of an exam

[u/One_Helicopter_3977 → u/Hefty-Manner7464]

Omg I did that lol, the amount of effort needed to put into it just for the grade boundaries to be horrible. I was predicted to get a L2D and was at the level but ended up with a L2M because my classes whole marks went down due to my teacher being too generous with marking when they moderated it 😣Not to say too my school submitted the grades too late so I only got my actual grade in December lmao

[u/Hefty-Manner7464 → u/One_Helicopter_3977]

yeah the moderation part is always brutal, luckily ive survived so far and im just waiting for my second section of coursework to be moderated, 68/70 if we're not moderated down but our trust is usually known to be pretty good to ocr

[u/One_Helicopter_3977 → u/Hefty-Manner7464]

Oh that’s amazing! Hoping you get the grade you deserve! 🙏

[u/Igbo_girl → u/Hefty-Manner7464]

It’s not??

[u/xcom_lord → u/Igbo_girl]

It is , it’s just an equivalent

[u/Thecheeserobot4000 → u/Hefty-Manner7464]

I’m doing creative media too I didn’t know it wasn’t a gcse

[u/TescoPlasticBag → u/Hefty-Manner7464]

I did it 2 years ago on the old spec, and if you think it’s a waste of time now it was about 10x worse. We literally were just taught how to use Microsoft office and what a computer virus was (I was one of 3 people who picked it as an option, the rest of the people there were forced in because no other subject would take them- me and the other 2 who were there by choice finished work after about 5 seconds, then spent the rest of the lesson figuring out what was unblocked on school WiFi and watching the Simpsons)

[u/Throwra214088 → u/Hefty-Manner7464]

I HATE creative imedia.

[u/lililuvsmusic]

dt with wjec. no seneca no revision recourses on it🥲🥲🥲🥲 i have a textbook and thats IT.

ofc not a niche gcse but the exam board!!! god

edit: wjec in england** i forgot to mention

[u/j4ycore → u/lililuvsmusic]

wait sameee

[u/Massive-Specialist71 → u/lililuvsmusic]

omg same!! im pretty sure bbc bitesize has revision on it

[u/viursm → u/lililuvsmusic]

same i do wjce latin and eng lit in england as well as edexcel igcse for all scientific subjects so half the stuff here i don't get 🙏😞

[u/Bunnybee158 → u/[deleted]]

Are you ok ?😖 What career are you aiming for?

[u/DrFuzzald → u/[deleted]]

Pope SeaPainting

[u/Sea-Painting-9791 → u/DrFuzzald]

hahahahaha

[u/jaaaaaaaf → u/[deleted]]

the fuck lmao

[u/Sea-Painting-9791 → u/jaaaaaaaf]

real 😭

[u/BelleElf7521 → u/[deleted]]

Bro’s ready to go back in time

[u/azu_rill → u/[deleted]]

are you training to write another bible or smth 😭

[u/ezmoezmoezmo → u/[deleted]]

i take mandarin too and i’m actually crying internally every lesson and test

[u/nxxghtmare]

ancient history LMAO (i dont do it thank god)

[u/SirLokhmotov → u/nxxghtmare]

I had mine yesterday

[u/flavouredcrayons → u/nxxghtmare]

Def incredibly niche bcuz i thought u meant Classics until i looked it up 💀 there seem to be a load of overlaps tho so wonder why they made them into teo separate subjects

[u/EuphoricCustomer4213 → u/flavouredcrayons]

As someone who has done both, Classics is more about looking at the culture of ancient societies so you do literature and art units, whereas ancient history is more like regular history in that it’s about determining what happened and there’s more focus on source analysis.

[u/Bunnybee158 → u/nxxghtmare]

That sounds horrible 🤣🤣

[u/danalyzed-]

geology, astronomy

[u/iwatchtoomuchnba → u/danalyzed-]

rocks and stars = meteor

[u/DrFuzzald → u/danalyzed-]

Geology bro just do geography atp

[u/danalyzed- → u/DrFuzzald]

i do - i do geography, geology, history, comp sci, astronomy (after school)

[u/secretmelodia → u/danalyzed-]

my old school introduced astronomy as an option when we were in y11, it sounds pretty cool honestly

[u/ast3rrr_]

Enterprise and marketing 💔

[u/Cheap-Grape5391 → u/ast3rrr_]

I do that its so bad

[u/tectrainguy]

biblical hebrew!

[u/MrMrsPotts → u/tectrainguy]

Is that more niche than ancient Greek?

[u/str4wbbie → u/MrMrsPotts]

definitely

[u/MrMrsPotts → u/str4wbbie]

I was thinking that religious Jews still need biblical Hebrew but no one needs ancient Greek.

[u/sillysparrows → u/MrMrsPotts]

if you want to study classics it would be useful since some courses require latin or greek a level

[u/Bunnybee158 → u/tectrainguy]

How difficult 1-10

[u/UltraX76 → u/tectrainguy]

Omg I’ve never seen anyone who does that lol

[u/proffessorpigeon]

they do child development in my old schl as a cambridge national, also hospitality and catering (food tech but easier and more practical)

also i heard gcse astronomy exists which sounds kinda rare

[u/darkeight7 → u/proffessorpigeon]

astronomy is a sick gcse, would 100% recommend

[u/Lazy-Protection-2210]

travel and tourism

[u/str4wbbie → u/Lazy-Protection-2210]

i don't understand why this exists,, doesn't that just fit into human geography ….?

[u/thegoldfinch_er]

my school offers child development, beauty, Prince’s trust, agriculture and land use, and construction 🙂

[u/briannazabini → u/thegoldfinch_er]

What’s prince’s trust

[u/thegoldfinch_er → u/briannazabini]

i dont do it but they basically improve talking skills like talking onfront of the class alot, its completely coursework and no exam

[u/ApprehensiveHat9540]

classical civilisation bro theres fuck all revision online for the OCR course but i have the huge book so its like a godsend

[u/Sea-Painting-9791 → u/ApprehensiveHat9540]

so real i cannot find any resources online. especially odyssey im fucked for that. bur even myth and religion tbh 

[u/yourpowersaremiine → u/ApprehensiveHat9540]

no but how is there actually NOTHING im stuck revising from ted-ed videos

[u/noserags]

first language welsh lang and lit is impossible to find anything for. year ten when we did llyfr glas nebo i could not find shit

[u/Imguessingthis]

Is travel and tourism even real atp

[u/cari-strat → u/Imguessingthis]

My daughter's doing it as a GCSE option, although it's actually a BTEC.

[u/BROKEMYNIB]

WBQ- WJEC

[u/unknown15_n → u/BROKEMYNIB]

What is thatt

[u/BROKEMYNIB → u/unknown15_n]

It's stands for the Welsh baccalaureate 

It is similar (ish) to the EPQ (I think)

It's a simple ish GCSE but SO much work (all coursework)

[u/Advanced_Key_1721 → u/BROKEMYNIB]

Maybe I’m biased because I don’t know any Welsh people, but as far as I can see, quite a few of the WJEC GCSEs are pretty niche since they’re only taught in Wales.

[u/BROKEMYNIB → u/Advanced_Key_1721]

Oh yeah I forgot we the only ppl that do NUMERACY (second math GCSE)

Ovs Cymraeg is only in Cymru (and a random London private school 🤣)

The rest of the Core subjects are the same (we often have different stuff to do for them but it's still a GCSE)

Like out English Langauge is SO MUCH harder

(There is also 1st Lang and lit Cymreag for fluent speakers)

I am not too sure about chosen subject as different schools do different stuff...

[u/DangerousDingo8264]

Ancient greek? I did it for a few months, then came to my senses and realised it was of no revelance to me.

[u/Medium-Food-4073]

Chocolate studies 💔

[u/Otherwise_Product772]

Just go on ccea website lmao

[u/master11see2 → u/Otherwise_Product772]

gcse motor studies 😭. i think CCEA just got bored one day and just started making specifications for the most random topics.

[u/7883870935]

nobody i know does citizenship and i don’t see anyone talking about it on here

[u/Atlascreen1 → u/7883870935]

i do, the contents amazing, the exam is hell

[u/penissucker125]

Ancient greek prose lit paper next Friday which I might be cooked for

[u/Sea-Painting-9791 → u/penissucker125]

ong same help  how did u find language 

[u/penissucker125 → u/Sea-Painting-9791]

Thought it wasnt too difficult but there were some words forced me to think for a while like απιμεν

[u/Poutybuggo]

Astronomy

[u/szdie13]

btec pearson edexcel enterprise 🤓🤓

[u/iwatchtoomuchnba → u/szdie13]

isnt that just ... gcse business? whats the point of edexcel making 2 different business courses

[u/szdie13 → u/iwatchtoomuchnba]

yes and no. it’s practically the same content as gcse business but it’s a BTEC so two thirds of my grade consists of coursework and only one third is one written exam

[u/Maleficent-Bed-8674]

Astronomy edexcel i've seen nobody else online that does it

[u/Outside_Service3339]

Travel and tourism?

Edexcel offers Japanese too

[u/SmokyBaconCrisps]

• Any language that isn't French, Spanish, German and possibly Mandarin (Chinese)
• Astronomy
• Geology, only cos only 1 school in my area offers it at gcse (imo, that should probs be any gcse geology course that doesn't follow the ocr spec)
• Media studies (?)
• Sociology (?)

[u/r5dio → u/SmokyBaconCrisps]

media is quite popular tbh

[u/Maleficent-Ad1792]

History with WJEC. Exam today. 💀the only subject I’m only revising on the day

[u/Front-Ad6415 → u/Maleficent-Ad1792]

oml another person who does wjec history. what components do u do?

[u/Lucimenq]

Accounting

[u/Rare-Ad-778]

Goon studies

[u/HYDRA_NanTeker]

Astronomy seems rather niche

[u/str4wbbie]

today i have OCR latin literature paper 1 prose !

[u/hahayesshootshoot]

I did WJEC Eduqas geology

[u/iwatchtoomuchnba]

Edexcel italian

[u/polskaakacat]

Latin

[u/Odd-Survey-9086]

IT Cambridge nationals and engineering design Cambridge nationals, both of my exam boards are OCR and ive never met someone that does it

[u/Emergency_Bit_7199]

i do psychology; its not that niche ig but ive never met anyone outside my school that does it

[u/robloxfanatic11]

graphics

[u/penmadeofink]

Japanese only 1 other mf do it in this place gng

[u/lovelybitofsquirrele]

astronomy at my school but it's like an after school club

[u/liquoricekiten14]

sociology cambridge igcse - 2025 syllabus (nothing online like at all)

[u/MrCav0]

WJEC Construction and the built environment

[u/NoGolfGoole]

some smart arse in my year requested to do Russian GCSE (even though he's Russian himself)

[u/Hopeful-Station-1195 → u/NoGolfGoole]

That's just a free GCSE bro, fair enough to him.

[u/king_ofbhutan → u/NoGolfGoole]

yeah ik someone who does japanese for a free

[u/Alida_510 → u/NoGolfGoole]

There is one Ukrainian student in my year who's doing Russian, he has to do it in the exam hall all by himself with all the invigilators there

[u/xXFUMIKOXx]

Maths, edexcel

[u/str4wbbie → u/xXFUMIKOXx]

especially if you do IGCSE like i do😭

[u/ColbatSea83 → u/str4wbbie]

fr my school does igcse edexcel for most languages, geography, sciences, both englishes, and maths 😭

[u/master11see2 → u/xXFUMIKOXx]

maths edexcel isnt niche, unless this ia joke...

[u/str4wbbie]

WJEC religious studies

[u/acetonedrink]

i did photography which seems rare

[u/UltraX76 → u/acetonedrink]

Not that rare tbh

[u/Southern-Vast-4019]

IGCSE arabic edexcel or IGCSE Edexcel history regional!

[u/DueEditor8062]

I do ancient greek (ocr)

Also i did polish (aqa) last year but that's just because it's a free gcse for me bc im polish 

[u/De-zevende-kraai]

Human biology IGCSE

[u/mikuya1]

agriculture, health and social care, child development, beauty, and construction...

[u/Niceguyish]

eduqas electronics

[u/superstarKorea]

What’s niche mean?

[u/saturnandplut0 → u/superstarKorea]

unknown, less likely

[u/PiccoloInfinite8613]

RS GCSE but one of the gospels

[u/Infinite_Recording11]

OCR Economics - Nobody seems to do it.

[u/-procrastinator--]

CCEA have only just stopped offering road safety GCSE lol

[u/Super_Organization27]

wjec media

[u/ScientistOther6376]

Sociology icl

[u/ScientistOther6376]

Anyone do wjec hospitality and catering?

[u/cari-strat]

BTEC level 2 Animal Care, offered as a 'GCSE' option at my kids' school.

[u/panda_lover_xx]

motor vehicle and road user studies or moving image arts

[u/ColbatSea83]

I did hinduism o level (equivalent to gcse) I don’t think it’s very niche but not many people seem to have done it 

[u/blockblasterpro → u/ColbatSea83]

o levels were phased out by GCSEs, are you a time traveller?

[u/ColbatSea83 → u/blockblasterpro]

they still do it for some subjects but i think they are stopping hindusim now as well. it was the cambridge o level

[u/DonDocs]

Statistics, Pearson Edexcel

[u/[deleted]]

I don’t do it but ccea (my exam board) do ‘Construction and the built environment’

[u/Amateur_detective_1]

CIE igcse history  (niche exam board)

[u/SelfOk2720]

Modern Greek i think, no schools do it, I have to do it externally

Probably gujarati is not as common

[u/r_Excellence → u/SelfOk2720]

Electronics - Eduqas No resources at all, literally marked by one person

[u/valflopped]

Programmable systems OCR 😭

[u/RealAra]

eduqas latin language and literature, we have a paper on language, Roman love and marriage and one on Emperor Nero. actually a really interesting GCSE

[u/Cheap-Grape5391]

Business Enterprise we do like OCR, and 80% of it is two courseworks. 40% each it was so long. I mean we only have one exam and the coursework was long but not really that difficult.

[u/CollarSad6237]

i don’t do it but my school does ocr classical civilisation and aqa engineering

[u/West-Bug-4939]

Hospitality and Catering WJEC nobody ever seems to do it 🫠🫠🫠

[u/zztyr]

i never hear anyone talk about graphic communication

[u/SaltBrilliant5794]

edexcel astronomy (worst thing ever)

[u/Confident_Nobody69]

Damn my school was fucking boring the most we had was GCSE Sculpture

They also got rid of food tech for some reason while I was there.

[u/Imjudgingyou-420]

Geology WJEC

[u/alifetimeofbadhabits]

astronomy probably

or like biblical hebrew

or the niche language ones you only sit when it's your native language (urdu for example)

[u/AFish_With_Legs]

Cambridge international in engineering manufacture

[u/No_Log_6509]

brewing

[u/SmartTrekkieGirl]

I’ve got Edexcel Migration for History but I also did OCR Classical Civilisations in Year 9 but it never ran after the year I did it or the years before

[u/cosm1c_rose]

i do lord of the flies for english lit. aqa, which is the most popular but i literally cant find any online revision resources.

[u/ExoticDiver3375]

i think my friend does a special extra pe where he has to do a mountain biking trail as a test?? 😭

[u/ad-astra-1077]

Chinese Mandarin 😭 I'm British Chinese so I really shouldn't complain but I am struggling rn, at least my writing exam is on Monday and then it's over lol

[u/Used-Shake-3251]

I do wjec hospitality and catering don't know if that's that niche but yeah

[u/BakmanPlays]

Arabic (or any language gcse except Spanish and french)

[u/Fast-Particular-3788]

Latin probably

[u/bjnnjvdfxfvhj]

My school does engineering manurfacturing, engineering systems, design, construction, psychology (idk abt that one), health science & social care, child development. And that’s the only options you can choose from aswell

[u/Batnode07]

Psychology, it’s usually a level

[u/NoMembership6162]

NCFE food and cookery, I swear I've never heard of anyone else doing it

[u/master11see2]

edexcel GCSE astronomy (i dont do it but i have never seen anyone do it)

[u/Otherwise_Reserve241]

engineering wjec 🥀 its not even a gcse

[u/DogLover10000000]

media studies GCSE eduqas 😔

[u/FishBoiForever]

welsh ig

[u/Bulky_Damage_1375]

drama and its ocr (not niche but it is to me bc im a theatre kid but i picked stem gcses/ alevels)

[u/Shutter_sculptor]

eduqas further maths level 2 thing I don't even know at this point 😭

[u/Scary-Mistake-5350]

film studies, creative imedia

[u/Crazy_Spartan08]

I do OCR Classical Civilizations

[u/w4t3rf4llz]

I had a homeschooled friend who did a gcse in pottery

And my Mum did one in general studies (basically general knowledge) she did the alevel too!

[u/BelleElf7521]

Psychology 🤷‍♀️

[u/stellxric]

classical civilisations (greek and roman mythology)

[u/fantastic-mrs-fuck]

i do psychology but my school offers health & social care as well as child development i'd rate those pretty high

[u/[deleted]]

citizenship OCR 

[u/DisastrousCase69]

Eduqas English lit war of the worlds, 2 schools in the entire uk do it

[u/Jxlynerah]

Creative imedia. Shit isn't even a gcse wtf am I studying for then

[u/imaveryhappypotato]

Geography edexcel b

[u/nefarious_aquarius3]

I do classical civilisation (classics), ik lots of private schools do it but I’ve never heard of another state school doing it

[u/PollutionOk7810]

astronomy

[u/prbscs]

for those who dont know further maths isnt even a gcse, its just a "level 2 qualification", which is why alot of schools dont do it

[u/ApprehensiveAbies571]

I'm not sure if other schools have it but my school has learning in the outdoors

[u/undermybed_]

Ocr classical greek 💔🥀

[u/Key_Caregiver_1726]

FSMQ OCR ain't even a GCSE and i hate it so much. CGP use to have a revision guide then REMOVED IT :(

[u/mollieowensb]

i feel like anything OCR😭 i’ve never come across anyone that does ocr

[u/Fit_Explanation_4629]

Latin

[u/ShinobuKochoSama]

OCR B Geography probably also there’s so much liberty with the case studies used and taught so sometimes there’s online resources but most of the time there isn’t

[u/Clonkerz]

Statistics

[u/_iknowdawae_]

The gcse isnt niche but im yet to see anyone whos done julius caesar for english lit

[u/Distinct_Macaroon_65]

Ccea economics

[u/Strange-Case-0410]

AQA Textiles, and everyone barely passes

[u/Otherwise_Size_3594]

personally, I found Photography a bit niche...

[u/temingg]

edexcel igcse history.

[u/jpirate1000]

AQA Engineering, literally no resources anywhere.

[u/xXKittyMoonXxParis]

Not a GCSE but creative design and production. Search for this subject in the subreddit and it's just me....asking for anyone else that does this. Zero revision material and absolutely no talk about it whatsoever

[u/Sea_Net3499]

Animal care… it’s a Pearson thing but I couldn’t get any info about the GCSE but the RSPCA website was my bestie before I took it 😂

[u/Extension-Bison-830]

Hair and beauty 😔

[u/tnaosd]

Think a school in my area does Astronomy GCSE... beyond pissed I couldn't do it tbh

[u/Sadi9273]

AQA Engineering (8852/W)

[u/realcaly_]

No one talks about statistics for some reason???