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Jan 15, 2009 21:43

Poll Make my decisions for me.I am equally good at both and enjoy both equally. The teaching is more consistent for German - most of the teachers suck equally - whereas one of the teachers I know for History is REALLY GOOD but boring, and the other has been rubbish all through lower school, but is apparently good for A-level ( Read more... )

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oblivionbystars January 15 2009, 21:56:41 UTC

He's not so bad. You learn a lot with him, and he knows his stuff, but his lessons are dull and unvaried. He makes sure you pass your exams, though.

I HATE THE TUDORS SO SO MUCH. SRSLY. HATE HATE HAT! I have no words for it! They're just annoying, and upper-class.

You can! I already know a lot about Lenin and the 1917 Crew, but it'd be kinda cool to study it in-depth. I think I'll find out more about the History course before I make my decision.

And, of course you'll get into college :) You have awesome grades - they won't turn you down. I'm having to do interviews and applications for my own sixth form, and it's hell D:

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oblivionbystars January 15 2009, 22:01:54 UTC

It is. But few teachers at my school actually do that job.

I know... I hate the Tudors... D:
I can't stand upper-class or middle-class history. Not at all. And anything before about 1850 turns me off - it's not personally relevant to me. I like the 20th century, really. If I was thinking of taking history further, and I had a choice of colleges (I don't) I'd have done the same.

As and A*s, amirite? Way better than those around you.

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oblivionbystars January 15 2009, 22:00:06 UTC

So is German. Having a MFL, especially nowadays, when taking one at GCSE isn't compulsory, is a massive bonus.

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oblivionbystars January 15 2009, 22:04:43 UTC

German is also well-known as being hard - ever tried speaking a language? It's more difficult than writing an essay on history. It's a well-respected subject, especially as Britain these days is fairly xenophobic and seems to expect everyone else to speak English.

Also, I am planning on using German in my degree, that's the problem. Imperial College does physics with a year in continental Europe, which I'm seriously considering, as well as the possibility of taking languages credits with a main physics or maths degree, or moving to Germany once I've done my initial degree.

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ayawinner January 16 2009, 15:18:17 UTC

Ich habe für Deutsch gestimmt ;)
(Aus offensichtlichen Gründen. Außerdem werde ich nie wieder jemandem zu Geschichte raten, weil ich es selbst sehr hasse, seit ich es als Hauptfach habe.)

oblivionbystars January 16 2009, 18:16:41 UTC

Ah, natürlich! Meine Meinung nach, sollte ich Deutsch lernen, aber es abhängt von, wie gut die Lehrer sind und wo es unterrichtet ist.

(Warum hast du es als Hauptfach gewählt, wenn du es hasst? Oder darfst du nicht wählen?)

ayawinner January 17 2009, 14:10:42 UTC

Ich habe Geschichte freiwillig gewählt, aber meine Lehrerin ist furchtbar und sie verlangt sehr viel von uns, sodass ich keine besonders guten Noten schreibe.
Allerdings wüsste ich auch nicht, was ich sonst hätte wählen sollen. Da meine anderen Hauptfächer Englisch und Deutsch sind, hätte ich entweder eine andere Gemeinschaftskunde (Sozialkunde oder Erdkunde) oder eine Naturwissenschaft (Biologie, Phyik oder Chemie) wählen können. Darin bin ich allerdings noch schlechter als in Geschichte :D

oblivionbystars January 18 2009, 00:42:29 UTC

Ich hasse es, wenn Lehrer nicht angemessen sind, weil Studenten nichts über es tun können. Für wie viel längere musst du Geschichte lernen?

Ich würde Physik, Mathe und Deutsch wählen, wenn ich nur drei Fächer lernen könnte. Glücklicherweise haben Englische Studenten mehr Optionen, und normalerweise man studiert drei oder vier Fächer vor man in die Uni geht, aber ich könnte nicht wählen und werde fünf lernen :) Mathe, Chemie, Physik, hoffentlich Deutsch, und Further Maths (ich weiss nicht, wenn es ein deutsches Äquivalent gibt, aber es ist Mathe mit addiertem Mathe :P) Ich denke, dass ich nicht anfangen darf, Mathe langweilig zu finden...

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is emma anonymous January 17 2009, 20:43:31 UTC

Right - for history you'd be doing the new course that current y12 are doing y/y? If not then don't bother with the rest of this, just eeniemeenie it lol ( ... )

Re: is emma oblivionbystars January 17 2009, 21:05:34 UTC

I haven't got a clue which course we'd do, but MAN THAT SOUNDS SO BAD. I HATE HATE HAT Henry VIII, and the Holocaust is... passé. It was bad and all, but we've done so much about it and I'd die.

No coursework? *blinks* ... NO COURSEWORK? LULZ WUT. But I like languages coursework. Oh man oh man oh man. That is penis, on a plate. Ugh. *shudder* BOTH sound bad.

Is your friend the one who's going to do maths or something at Cambridge? Mrs Brooke said I should talk to him, as apparently I would learn things :P Is he the one who explained imaginary numbers to me?

Re: is emma anonymous January 17 2009, 21:48:52 UTC

Précisement. And you get to do what you like for it, so I'm using it as essentially a history project but in French.
Oh forgot before, in history you get to do a Personal Study on whatever you like (srsly at all ever), so you could do your Bismarck there, but I have a sneaking suspiscion you'd have to do it about Britain in your course :(

Yes he is, maths and physics - you should definitely speak to him, you WOULD learn a lot (he's like rob, only less clever-by-accident if you get me). Although you'd never agree politically.
Or you could just do AS further maths, either way...
But yes, we applied to the same college too :(
No, not him, someone else. Andrew (imaginary numbers) is reasonably similar, but a bit less clever and more stereotypical geek.

Would you like to hear an amusing story about me and Josh? (Aforementioned mathematician, not bassoonist)
No, not like that *rolls eyes*
I texted you btw

Re: is emma oblivionbystars January 18 2009, 00:46:56 UTC

I don't love Bismarck that much (hell no, have you seen the man's politics? A quick Wiki search tells me all I need to know!) but doing about Germany would interest me, as I prefer it substantially to Britain. If there's nothing even about that, sorry, but there's no way I'm taking History ( ... )

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Random stalker comment anonymous January 26 2009, 15:56:43 UTC

If you don't like the Tudors and will have to study them, don't bother taking History, because you will find yourself spending fucking hours of your life thinking about them. Like you'll go to bed and dream about the reasons that Henry VII closed down the monasteries. If you're going to do it properly it's a massively time consuming subject. And no matter how able you are it's still hard if you want a good grade in it. I got full marks in my GCSE coursework without even trying and worked my absolute arse off to get my A at A level ( ... )

Re: Random stalker comment oblivionbystars January 26 2009, 18:33:12 UTC

In that case, I won't do history. It's not that I hate the Tudors, although on a personal level, I do - it's more that they just BORE me, and don't excite me at all, whereas with German it's like 'ooh, German! :)' and I don't want to be devoting my LIFE to subjects I don't look forwards to ( ... )