bigcheez2k3 wrote:How come everyone is taking multiple subjects at college?
I only take one subject and that uses 3 days of my week, strawberry float doing anymore.
Stop moaning, now. I did a BTEC Cert in Interactive Media & Games Design, which was 12/16 units of a diploma. It was 32 hours per week not including 100% practical coursework that was expected to be presented at home, about 60-100 A3 pages of sketchbook work every 2 months on average.
I got 4 distinctions (one of which was for a unit I didn't even submit, which they managed to mark based on one unit I did do, that was so overdone that I accidentally covered two units with it
), a merit, and everything else passes because those units were all late. I've had a gooseberry fool year, had clinical depression and course was boring as strawberry float for an artist instead of some IT design monkey with no original ideas or passion like the course is designed for. I would have got a double distinction if I was actually happy as those are the units I managed to get in on time when I had my head above water mentally.
Meh. I still have enough UCAS points from A-levels to get into uni, and I was recommended for a scholarship based on my portfolio. The system has failed me blah blah. Finally I see proof that it doesn't actually matter.
Your GCSEs don't matter kids, as long as you tried your best at English, maths and science.
(For the record I got an A*, 6 As and 4 Bs, two of the Bs on subjects a whole crap load of people basically failed because it was taught so badly; RS and ICT short of course. I then went on to get BBDD for A-levels, because I realised I didn't really care and there are better reasons to work hard in life. Made some cool paintings though which basically got me into art uni in the end.)