GCSE OPTIONS. food technology & drama

[vicious]

okay, so at my school, we have our core subjects that we have to take in year 10, and because i attend a media arts school, we have to take either art, media or music. well surprisingly to myself, my family & my friends i'm not taking music although i have a passion for it, because i took early music GCSE recently, but quit as it wasn't what i expected at all. and why choose to do something that's optional, if i wasn't enjoying it?

anyways, i've decided to do media. and other than that we get to choose two other subjects that we'd like to take.

i haven't send in my form yet to confirm what i'm taking, but i'm pretty much certain i'm taking food technology and drama.
so basically i made this thread to ask anyone on here that has taken either of these what to expect and how much coursework you got given in each of them, and what usually happens in the lessons.

i sort of know what my drama lessons would be like, as we've already been told by our drama teachers all about it, as they've been discussing it with people that are considering taking it for a GCSE.

so i really mainly want to know what i need to expect for food technology.

p.s
if you read that, i love you
because i know it's super long, haha

[dirrty]

cook food n write bout it

[Brody]

food technology is okay i take it and im in year 11 on B on it at the mo its pretty simple stuff really if ur school is anything like mine then. well at 1st u just do test your making skills. but then at around january in year 10 you start your coursework my coursework was picking a chosen diet and working around that. I chose low-fat diets and u basically work around that. making meals designed for people on your chosen diet and doing things like shop surveys to see what supermarkets have for your chosen diet. At some parts it is very long but if u like making things it is okay hope i helped lol

[vicious]

cook food n write bout it

haha yeah.
ok.

food technology is okay i take it and im in year 11 on B on it at the mo its pretty simple stuff really if ur school is anything like mine then. well at 1st u just do test your making skills. but then at around january in year 10 you start your coursework my coursework was picking a chosen diet and working around that. I chose low-fat diets and u basically work around that. making meals designed for people on your chosen diet and doing things like shop surveys to see what supermarkets have for your chosen diet. At some parts it is very long but if u like making things it is okay hope i helped lol

that sounds like the kind of thing i want to do, so hopefully that'll be what i do at my school. thanks, you did help: )

[Melsia]

I don't do it personally but I have heard that a lot of it is science.
People who do it and are in my science class tend to have a better understanding of topics such as oils and enzymes.

[Hazza]

Drama is hard but its not. You get set 1,000 words essays and you have to do 7 of these for coursework, yes it seems a lot, but once you've practiced once or twice its really easy. As for practical, the exam consists of three parts:
1) A 3 week period in which you are filmed and marked on all of your performances (then you will write 3 1,000 word essays on this period)
2) Another 3 week period in which you are filmed and marked on all of your performances (then you will write TWO 1,000 word essays on this period)
3) About a 6 week period @ the end of year 11 in which you just prepare for your final exam... then you do your 30 minute performance to an examier when you will get a final mark.

If you're thinking "what thats only 5 essays?" well you should go and watch two shows and write 1 essay on each show (which is also a 1,000 words) but only one of these essays get submitted. You may think this seems so hard but its not, its hard but its also fun and you get used to it and you do get really good results @ the end.

I hope this makes sense + helps you.

[luce]

cook food n write bout it

i dnt take it and i know it's not that.

[Jordan,]

there is load of course work for drama im in year 11 and we are just redoing it and finnishing it before we start our final pece

[Inseriousity.]

I think it depends on the exam board.

I did WJEC Food Tech. 70% practical, 30% theory but the coursework had a lot of written element involved. Someone from our class eventually left because "I didn't realise there was going to be so much writing. I thought they'd just mark us for our cooking." I'm sure you're not that silly. I did enjoy it though! I think the theory brought my grade down though. It was hard

[drama]

drama, it's ******* piss.

year 10 all we did was play improv. games and the occasional 'piece'

year 11 we've done one ten minute piece (scripted) and a portfolio on it, now we've started another ten minute piece (have to make it up based around 8 rules of a youth offenders institute) and we'll do a portfolio on that.

then we do a final exam and i'm not sure what happens then, but yeah, it's the subject I put the least effort in, have the most fun in and have my highest grade in (A*)