• Question: what sort of gcse's did u have 2 get 2 become a scientist?

    Asked by emz96 to Pete, Rebecca, SallyB, Sally, Sian on 18 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Sian Lawson answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      I think I did Maths, English (Language and Lit), French, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Maths, Art and Latin, adn got a far amount of good grades. A levels were important and in those days you needed to do three separate sciences at GCSE to be able to do sciences at A Level.

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      Sally Barber answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      I needed to get good enough grades to be able to go to 6th form or college and a C or above in science to be able to study an A-level science. From there I needed good enough grades to be able to go to university and a B or above in my A-level science subject which was biology. At university I needed to get good enough grades to be accepted to do a PhD. Now although I don’t have to do anymore exams, I need to work hard at being a great scientist so that I can carry on my work and be paid to do it. I don’t have a fixed contract so in January I have to win money to pay for me to do new projects.

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      Sally Fenton answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      I had ten GCSEs but the ones that were most important in terms of being a scientist were double science (this is a mixture of biology, chemistry and physics which counts for 2 GCSEs, P.E, maths and geography!
      These are the subjects that gave me a good foundation to work on when I took my A levels.

      Although I think in most places now…you can take any A levels you like provided you have got a certain number of GCSEs…so it doesn’t really what your GCSEs are as long as you have some. Science and maths are compulsary so you will have these anyway!

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      Peter Styring answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Science, chemistry, physics, biology, maths. Geography is also useful. You also have to do English. PE would also be good as there is a lot of sports science in it.

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      Rebecca Randell answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      It would be helpful to have science GCSE’s. I didn’t do any science A levels and I still became a scientist- anything is possible if you put your mind to it

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