Every person who has gone through the British school system will have had had to, at some point, chosen GCSEs. It’s the point in time when you finally get to drop some of the subjects you don’t like. Every school child has gone through this process of picking and choosing between subjects, whether they are waking up between two equally bad options or have too many interests to possibly have a sensible number of GCSEs. 

There are, undoubtedly, some GCSEs that almost everyone hates. Whether because they aren’t great at the subjects, or their teacher is the most awful person known to earth. The point is, are there any GCSEs that people universally agree upon, if they are horrible or enjoyable. 

When asked to rank GCSEs out of ten some of the answers were very different. For example:

Physics was ranked an average 7.25/10 of enjoyability. However over 50% agreed that the subject was a 5/10.

French was ranked an average 3.9/10 of enjoyability. Most thought that the subject was between a 1-4.

Classical civilisation was ranked an average of 8.25/10.

Latin was ranked an average of 9.25/10. However, it it important to recognise that the vast majority of people don’t have the option to or do pick Latin, so most that did pick the subject genuinely enjoy it.

History was ranked was ranked an average of 7.8/10. 90% of people ranked the subject 8/10.

Geography was ranked an average 2.4/10. 

Maths was ranked an average 6.25/10. This subject seemed to be disputed. Many people seemed to have opposed opinions about this subject.

Photography had an average 6/10.

When asked if they wanted to defend any specific GCSE courses one said ‘yes, physics is actually fun.’

Another claimed ‘History, it’s fun, we learnt about the world and a lot of politics too.’

As has been shown by these results, most students don’t agree on which subjects are good or not, it is very much a subjective matter that no one can decide for you. Instead, it would be better to decide what you enjoy, although there are some subjects no one can get out of doing, like maths and English literature and language.