What was your favourite school subject?

The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out.

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For me

English Lit or English (we never really separated them)
Drama (though I didn't bother with GCSE cause I wanted to do two languages then dove back in at A Level)
Spanish

I got good marks in History and like it when I can be really specific about the topic but really I think it was just because I could write a good essay.
Geography I liked for the human stuff and bombed hard in physical, just like in all the sciences.
Maths I was always top until GCSE started and they flung me in Add Maths and I was clueless. And now I'm supposed to be teaching it which is not good.
In PE I quite liked GYMNASTICS and a bit of badminton.
 
We didn't have any of this lot at my school!

Sociology
Sex Education (part of Biology)
Home Economics
Moving Image (?! surely this would come under Media Studies?)
Hospitality
Travel and Tourism
Citizenship
Psychology
 
Oops! Maybe someone could change that to Careers or something.

And we had them as two separate A Levels (Moving Image and Media) but I never quite understood either.
 
Maths, Art and English in that order. Not that I’ve retained much of what I learned in Maths, but I loved the teacher and was pretty OK at it at the time.

Art specifically for the pottery side of things. That’s as so much fun and I’d love to do it again.
 
I didn’t have most of those either.

My O- level subjects were

English language
English literature
Maths
Statistics
Physics
Chemistry
Economic and Public Affairs
French
Art
 
English, German, History.

I was GASH at maths, actively despised the sciences, and my Dyspraxia meant I was at best an enthusiastic buffoon in any physical/practical subjects.

I've never dipped below an A in anything English related, and would have got a first in Creative Writing if I'd not done combined honours.
 
I was a History and Geography NERD (still am). Ended up doing languages at uni as I thought that would be looked at fonder by employers but in hindsight I wish I'd done History, or some sort of joint honours.
 
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Tisch said:
I was a History and Geography NERD (still am). Ended up doing languages at uni as I thought that would be looked at fonder by employers but in hindsight I wish I'd done History, or some sort of joint honours.
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I love History. Absolute geek for it. I'm doing a history Masters right now. Some of it has been brilliant, however the course has been so damaged by strikes and Miss Corona. I suspect it won't put me off. I do expect my PhD will be back to Sociology however.
 
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History was my worst subject. Since school I have been quite bitter about how BORING they made it. So much fascinating stuff to learn about and yet all we got was CROP ROTATION and COTTON MILLS.
 
Loved all the humanities: English, History, Religious Studies, the languages. I was competent at Maths and Sciences, but they never came naturally.

Wish I had gone ahead and studied English at university, or at least Spanish as well if I was going to study Law. But the timetabling in Sixth Form meant that I wasn't able to take Spanish at A-Level.
 
I hated history as well. Largely because I hated my BITCH TEACHER Miss Ellis.

History is still the biggest gap in my general knowledge.
 
I have an Advanced Higher in RELIGIOUS, MORAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES which has been of absolutely no use.

I hated Maths and ditched it after my Standard Grades. I found the Sciences utterly tedious so put no effort into them. I had to take Biology as a Higher and failed it spectacularly. I was always better at the written/essay based subjects like History.
 
French, Geography and Music were my favourites. Our school did not introduce Spanish until the year after me so I didn't get the chance to study it sadly. We also did not have Drama or I would have jumped at the chance.

I was pretty good at all subjects at school, though English was my least favourite. I HATE writing essays and always have done. The sciences I did were Chemistry and Physics, I preferred Chemistry, but managed to do ok in Physics. Maths I was fine with up to a certain point and then I lost interest.
 
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I love History. Absolute geek for it. I'm doing a history Masters right now. Some of it has been brilliant, however the course has been so damaged by strikes and Miss Corona. I suspect it won't put me off. I do expect my PhD will be back to Sociology however.
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Oh really! I thought you were doing something related to English!

I did think about going back at some point to a History masters but money and can't be bothered. Generally I hate studying.
 
I did Maths, Economics and English Language at A-level (and aforementioned general studies). Wanted to do Geography too but timetables made it impossible.
 
I started doing A level maths after loving O level maths and statistics, but gave up after about three weeks. Obviously much much harder. And I always found waffling on about novels much easier, so I switched to English literature instead.
 
I did Maths, Further Maths, Computing and English Lit. The English was just for a bit of variety, but by god I was fucking sick of writing essays by the end of it.
 
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The English was just for a bit of variety, but by god I was fucking sick of writing essays by the end of it.
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But I am grateful to it for introducing me to Jane Austen and also letting me know I never need to read another Thomas Hardy.
 
They made me do TWO MATHS A-LEVELS instead of anything INTERESTING. it was a FATE WORSE THAN DEATH
 
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