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"GCSE Art"

Being excellent at drawing, I took on Art as one of my GSCE courses last year.

The course itself isn't that bad actually, and at the moment our topic is 'shoes'. Yes, it sounds sad, but at the end of the course we must have produced a sculpture of a weird and abstract shoe.

However, there is loads of homework which really pishes me off seeing as I have a very busy schedule during the week with after school clubs etc.

I've just finished another mammoth homework. Christ it can be annoying, and Art isn't just about drawing. It's also about painting, sculpting etc.

Anyone else here take Art for GCSE? Apparently the final exam is 10 hours long, which doesn't sound too pleasing :S

ART GCSE is the best exam u'll ever take in school, The 10 hours isnt in one go or whatever your thinking, you do it in 3 hour parts and is just like any other ART lesson you can talk, walk around, put the radio on full blast plus the 10 hours goes so quickly.§

2 DAYS!!

Oh Holy Lord...

Art is good from what I heard. Apparently it's really quite fun, and they got to draw some very interesting things.

And the exam isn't over 3 weeks, fool.

It's 2 days.

Our school used to do Latin but it was scrapped for Spanish.

IT is compulsary in Wales. Yar :)

And Welsh is :(

Apple Crumble wrote:
> We had four coloums, three with subjects and one free. We had to
> choose one subject from each column and choose another subject and
> put it in the free column.

Exactly the same as our school. Except I couldn't be bothered with a "technology" so I wrote to the school and got out of it - took music instead.

As far as languages go, we could do French, German, Latin or Russian....

My option blocks were like this:

Option 1:-
History (I picked that)
Geography
German
Music

Option 2:-
History
Geography
Art (I picked that)
Spanish

Long course (you pick one to do a full GCSE in and you do half in the other two):-
IT (I picked that)
Design
Religious Studies

Compulory:-
English
Maths
Biology
Physics
Chemistry
French
PE
Games

The Government should be shot in my opinion.

There are so many children in my school that couldn't do what they wanted due to the column setup. I was also disappointed as I couldn't do DT Graphics because there weren't enough people on the course :(

I took Geography instead, which is very good seeing as we havea teacher who feelssorry for us and gives us breaks every ten minutes :D

JFH wrote:
> Reefer wrote:
> I thought it was crap. I should've taken Drama, which I would've
> definately passed.
>
> Drama? That's not even an option at my school. I had to pick between
> art, geography and spanish.

That's such an odd way of doing it. Surely Humanities (RE, Geog, Hist) should be kept together and Expressive Arts (Drama, Art, Music) kept together? :0x

I still do french but I had the option to do spanish aswell. French was compulsory but I don't care, I found out I got 20/20 on my first piece of coursework today.