Jack的小留学生日记 l GCSE选课要从兴趣出发吗？

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下周开始就要进入考试周了，从学生到老师，每个人的精神都高度紧张。虽说我从小到大参加的考试不计其数，成绩也不错，但每次进入考试周，总觉得自己一团糟。

 

明年要面临的GCSE考试要比以往任何一场考试都重要，GCSE也可以理解成英国中等教育结业考试。该课程始于1888年，由Edexcel, AQA 和Cambridge International等考试委员会制定。这些机构有自己发行的教科书跟考试内容，但考试时间均同时进行（从11年级开学到6月份）。GCSE课程种类繁多，必修课程包括英语、文学、数学、物理、生物学、化学、宗教研究等。所有的必修课程要看学校自己的安排，并非由考试委员会统一制定。GCSE还包括不同级别的资格证书，从一级到九级都有。对于学习主动性较差的学生，也会提供一至五级的考试。此外，GCSE还提供“联合学科”的选项，这种方式可以将三门学科综合成为两门，但是大多数情况下，考虑到整体平均分的情况，学校一般不提供后两种选项。

我自己选择的GCSE考试科目有英语、文学、数学、物理、生物学、化学、法语、历史、音乐、商业研究、计算机和高等数学。这些学科都是我真正感兴趣的，但有时候也不简单的从兴趣出发，因为很多学生的热情来的快去得也快。所以，九年级选课时老师跟我们说，不一定要选自己最有信心的科目，也不一定要选最容易的科目。一门好的科目会让学生在整个学习过程中不断激发培养自身的兴趣，可能这门学科当时没有那么擅长，但是随着学习的过程，逐渐激发的兴趣会帮助自己更好的完成学习。

相比较其他考试类型，有人觉得GCSE的课程算比较简单，尤其在数学跟科学的课程设置上，但是GCSE的学科种类多（通常为12门），因此也没有想象中那么容易。其实，生活就跟GCSE考试一样，总会遇到很多难题，解决难题的唯一办法就是保持兴趣。有些事情可能看起来微不足道，没有意义，但是当我们对此产生了兴趣的时候，也许会激发出更多了不起的灵感。

    Jack

 英文版

 It's exam week next week, the time when the school change the time table, the teachers depressed over the hundreds of papers they have to mark, and the week when you feel that your adrenaline level is too high constantly. Exams had never really been fully tamed by me, even though I took many of them and most came out pretty well, every exam week gives me the nerve and makes me feel like I messed up all of them. But unfortunately, for my exams next year, it's going to be way more formal and important than any exams I've ever taken - the GCSEs.

 

The GCSE or General Certificate of Secondary Education is a qualification course for Secondary Education. Started in 1888, the course is done by many exam boards like Edexcel, AQA and Cambridge International, who print their own textbooks and other educational materials and also publishes GCSE exams for their courses, which all are taken publicly around the UK at the same time (from the start to the end of June of Year Eleven). There is a wide selection of subjects in the GCSE course ranging from Art to Sports Studies, but some subjects are compulsory, these include English Language and Literature, Mathematics, Physics, Biology and Chemistry, but also Religious Studies, though this is enforced in some schools, not with the exam board. The course also offers different levels of qualifications, there is the full grade one to nine higher level Exam, which includes all everything in the course, but a foundation grade one to five exam paper is also available for less enthusiastic and motivated students. In addition, the course also has an option for Combined Science, which condenses the three sciences into two, though most private institutions tend to not offer the foundation course nor the Combined science unless they deemed it necessary as one can only achieve grade 5 which is a C, thus bringing the school average down.

 

For me, I chose French, History, Music, Business Studies, Computing and Further Mathematics as my subjects as I genuinely have a fair amount of interest in them. But, subjects choosing is not as easy as it seems and many people turned out to dislike and fall out of interest in their chosen subjects in very little time. When I was choosing for my subjects in Year nine, my teacher told us not necessarily chose the one you are most confident in nor the one you think is the easiest to do; she said that a good subject is one that can keep you interested enough to be motivated throughout the course rather than the one you are currently the best at, as when the content gets harder, it's the interest for the subjects you're studying that gets you through the course.

To conclude, although the GCSEs are seen by many to be a relatively easy course, especially for the maths and the sciences, the vast range of subjects and the sheer number of them(normally 12 subjects) makes them less easy and straight forward than it looks. Just like the GCSEs, life somewhat is the same, there is a range of things that bothers you and cause problems and the only way to push through everything is to do the things you are interested, maybe those things look less potential or pay less, one only gets inspiration when doing the things they are interested in.

 

Jack

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