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Asked by Bernice to Ellen, Elliot, Hazel, Rupesh, Thomas on 20 Jun 2016.
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Elliot Jokl answered on 20 Jun 2016:
Good question!
When you get further and further along, you focus in on one tiny little thing. So in my job, I look at muscles and the diseases that stop them growing very well. So I don’t use much of the broad topics that I learned about at GCSE in my day to day work.
However, I still think that it is useful to learn about lots of different topics at GCSE and during school. The more you look at, the more chance there is you will find a topic that you find very interesting and want to learn more about. There are parts of Biology I didn’t find very interesting at school, but the bits I did like I liked a lot. I think if you try and focus on very narrow topics too early on, you risk people missing out and thinking that science is boring because the specific topic you are looking at isn’t very interesting to them.
Plus, if I ever want to look at something other than muscles, the knowledge I have of other subjects will be useful in figuring out what else I might like to do!
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Hazel Garvie-Cook answered on 20 Jun 2016:
The science you learn at GCSE gives you a good basis to learn more science later on. So maybe I don’t use a lot of the specific things I learnt everyday now, but I’ve used the science I learnt at GCSE to learn more science at A-level, to learn more at university etc
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Thomas Biggans answered on 20 Jun 2016:
The science I learnt at GCSE level still forms the basic building blocks of the theories and techniques I use now. I still have to understand the different types of radiation, conservation of energy and the properties of waves.
So what you learn at GCSE is useful in the real world and can be applied to many different things in many different careers. Well that’s the case for physics anyway.
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Rupesh Paudyal answered on 22 Jun 2016:
Not much but the basics are required to understand more complex problems.
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