• Question: what lessons did you take at school?

    Asked by lozza2k11 to Charlie, Eoin, Jemma, Julian, Steve on 17 Mar 2011.
    • Photo: Stephen Moss

      Stephen Moss answered on 16 Mar 2011:

      Hi again Iozza

      I did the usual range of subjects for GCSE, and at A level I took Maths, Biology and Chemistry. I actually didn’t get very good marks first time round and had to resit them all to get a place at University.

    • Photo: Charlie Ryan

      Charlie Ryan answered on 16 Mar 2011:

      hi lozza, i went to a local comprehensive, and studied the normal kind of things. English, french, sciences, maths, history, geoegraphy etc. At A level i did maths, physics and chemistry. My mum also forced me to do french, but i failed that!

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      Eoin Lettice answered on 16 Mar 2011:

      I’m Irish so went to school in Ireland and I studied lots of the same subjects that you study in the UK: biology, chemistry, physics, english, history, etc.
      I also studied the Irish language (all Irish school children do) which I guess is something not many people in the UK do!

      By the way:
      Is breá liom eolaíocht

      means “I love Science” in Irish!

      Eoin

    • Photo: Julian Rayner

      Julian Rayner answered on 17 Mar 2011:

      A fair bit of science, but I took English and History too. You don’t have to specialise as early in New Zealand as you do here, so in my last year at high school I took Biology, two kinds of Maths, History and English. Took a couple of history courses in my first year at university too, until I had my first molecular biology class and realised that science was what I wanted to do. Never regretted that choice.

      Keeping an open mind for as long as possible is a good thing I think – then when you decide what you want to work on, work on it like crazy.

    • Photo: Jemma Ransom

      Jemma Ransom answered on 17 Mar 2011:

      I took triple science for GCSE and a load of humanities subjects (History, music, short course RE) and then took History, Philosophy, Biology, and Chemistry at A level. I was fortunate enough to be able to carry Philosophy, Chemistry, Biology, and Physics on to my first year at University too.

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