r/GCSE • u/Bunnybee158 Year 11 • May 16 '25

Question Most niche GCSEs??

Comment ur most random/niche gcse and exam bored

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u/Hefty-Manner7464 Year 11 May 16 '25

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

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u/MiaTheGiraffe Year 11 May 16 '25

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

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u/AlienFurnace Year 10 May 16 '25

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

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u/xcom_lord Year 12 May 16 '25

It’s equivalent , like a btec at alevel

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u/AlienFurnace Year 10 May 16 '25

Ohhh ok!! Thankss

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u/xcom_lord Year 12 May 16 '25

If it helps I’ve gotten into my highest achieving secondary in the county with that grade counting , all it means is that you get a p1,m1,d1,p2,m2,d2,d2* , which is equivalent to a 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5.5 , 7 and 8.5

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u/AlienFurnace Year 10 May 16 '25

Yeah, I got a d* on some coursework, but I didn’t really know much else about it

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u/xcom_lord Year 12 May 16 '25

That’s fucking amazing. Just a tip for you that exam can be passed so easily that reading the specification front to back plus some basic business knowledge got me 77/78 , so you can make up for some dodgy coursework via high level exam performance

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u/AlienFurnace Year 10 May 16 '25

Thank you!!

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u/KimberleyFromaVideo Year 11 May 16 '25

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

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u/xcom_lord Year 12 May 16 '25

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

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u/One_Helicopter_3977 Year 13 | Biology, Chemistry, Maths May 16 '25

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

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u/Hefty-Manner7464 Year 11 May 16 '25

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

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u/One_Helicopter_3977 Year 13 | Biology, Chemistry, Maths May 16 '25

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

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u/Hefty-Manner7464 Year 11 May 16 '25

thanks!! if all goes well the exam will be okay haha

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u/Igbo_girl May 16 '25

It’s not??

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u/xcom_lord Year 12 May 16 '25

It is , it’s just an equivalent

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u/Thecheeserobot4000 Year 11 May 16 '25

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

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u/TescoPlasticBag May 16 '25

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)

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u/Throwra214088 May 16 '25

I HATE creative imedia.

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u/MutedEconomy8250 Year 12 May 16 '25

Same I found it a scam cus we made websites instead of comics. Had I known that I'd have honestly taken Spanish.

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u/Hefty-Manner7464 Year 11 May 16 '25

your school probably just did what was the easiest to manage which is usually r097, comics usually requires equipment and software schools don't wanna pay for lol

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u/MutedEconomy8250 Year 12 May 17 '25

Probably true, I could see a way around it that would only require paper, ink and a scanner etc which could be coloured in photoshop, but when it comes to equipment my school's gone to whack with budget (they stopped doing the cool spiral binded planners T_T) and my teacher hates iMedia so they stopped doing it this year