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Is anyone else doing these? At my college (cardinal newman) we are made to do them however...I walked out of my first one after 20 mins and ive not been to any of the others and won't go to the rest. This is because:
-not one of the universities i haveapplied to accept it
-general studies is of no benefit to me, as it is GCSE level and i got high grades in my GCSEs
-my time can be spent doing other revision and coursework.
-i'm not going to do any exam that i have been forced to do because my college gets subsidised for every student that sits it.

is anyone else doing general studies or any exams they deem a waste of time?


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we were forced to do them for AS, no one cared, no one studied, complete waste of time
and best of all, no self-respecting university accepts them as an AS or A2 level

i rambled on about aliens in most of the questions and generally took the ****, still managed to get a C :o
 
mjt said:
we were forced to do them for AS, no one cared, no one studied, complete waste of time

and best of all, no self-respecting university accepts them as an AS or A2 level
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dangerstat said:
A completely useless qualification. Why on earth it exists I have no idea.
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Amen to that!

Do you reckon that if i ring UCAS and ask them not to send out my general studies results to my chosen Uni when i get my results they wont include it?
 
mjt said:
i rambled on about aliens in most of the questions and generally took the ****, still managed to get a C :o
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When i was a first year, in one of my exams i wrote something along the lines of this

"This a waste of both my time and yours. I know that we both want to be doing something else. Surely this isn't what you want to be doing"

That and a few other random sentances as answers got me a D :o
 
I wrote for 10mins in one of mine then went to sleep. I think I got A A E and came out with a D in it, not that it mattered at all.
 
Had to do General Studies at AS and there was an option to do Critical Thinking at A2. No one bothered with it though.

I did get a B in it though and when went to my interview about doing Chemistry at Bangor the head of dep said he would give me 50 points off 'cos I got the AS in it. :)
 
Azza said:
I did get a B in it though and when went to my interview about doing Chemistry at Bangor the head of dep said he would give me 50 points off 'cos I got the AS in it. :)
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suppose it wasnt such a waste of tiem for you then.
Ive got other things going for me so i couldnt care less for it :o
 
We were forced to do it at AS level. I quite enjoyed it; it was interesting to learn about the law, politics and government since I never had during my time at school before that.
 
reflux said:
We were forced to do it at AS level. I quite enjoyed it; it was interesting to learn about the law, politics and government since I never had during my time at school before that.
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We never learned anything beneficial or anything that i didnt already know =/
 
I never did, but even I know they're a big waste of time. Why are you forced to do it? I wouldn't do any AS/A2 I didn't want to do.
 
My 6th form didn't even do it, as they just thought it was a complete waste of time. I was made to take French AS in my GCSE year, though (long story), which I didn't do any work for at all and got a D in. They weren't amused, but then neither was I.
 
We have a welsh version for WJEC. It's even worse, requires community service and all that stuff. Similar to a DoE award but much worse.
Counts as a full A level though for some reason...........
 
Burnsy2023 said:
Why are you forced to do it?QUOTE]

My college gets supsidised for every student that sits it or somethign like that

WalesOwl said:
We have a welsh version for WJEC. It's even worse, requires community service and all that stuff. Similar to a DoE award but much worse.
Counts as a full A level though for some reason...........
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OUCH. Im oh so very glad i didnt have to do that!
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WalesOwl said:
We have a welsh version for WJEC. It's even worse, requires community service and all that stuff. Similar to a DoE award but much worse.
Counts as a full A level though for some reason...........
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Thank **** mine wasn't like that! That sounds horrific.
 
Azza said:
Had to do General Studies at AS and there was an option to do Critical Thinking at A2. No one bothered with it though.

I did get a B in it though and when went to my interview about doing Chemistry at Bangor the head of dep said he would give me 50 points off 'cos I got the AS in it. :)
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But it was Bangor :o :D
 
It was a bit of waste of time, it wasn't even anything you could revise for, just turned up and sat the exam. That said, I did get an A, not that it actaully meant anything to me or any of the unis I applied to... a bit pointless really
 
General Studies has only one purpose:

The age old "who can get the most random things into their answers and pass" game.

In the essay where i included ".....with Godzilla eating children, who are wrapped in cottonwool and are not allowed to eat worms..." (that was an actual phrase i got in), i got 100% :D
 
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