What things did you learn in your GCSEs (or O-Levels) that you now use in everyday life?

Question

Pythagoras's theorem anyone?

Answer 1

i socre in my emath and amath and i findit bullshit...but im 16 :P

Answer 2

I did Latin, Home management and religious studies at o level and cant think of one time I have ever used what I learnt!!!!!

Answer 3

Not much -  I haven't had to use any differential calculus in the last 24 years.

I can still remember the order of reactivity of metals from my Chemistry O Level in 1984 - I'm stil waiting to use that as it might come in useful sometime if I'm poised over a bowl of water with some potassium or copper and can't work out which one will expolde on immersion..

Answer 4

Things to help my children with their schoolwork! And my brother used what we learned in maths to work out how to build a staircase - he is a joiner.

Answer 5

Absolutley jack S**t. They're so irrelevant.

Answer 6

I learnt to think, particularly about what I am reading.

That has been very handy!!

Other than that, the only things I think I ever use are some principles from physics... centre of gravity, that sort of thing. But I never think "Gosh, I learnt that from school", it is just something there, so I guess if we started analysing there would be a lot of useful facts that have gone into our sub-conscious.

By the Way, I loathed school.

Answer 7

I learned some inspiring life principles from, "To Kill a Mockingbird".

I learned how to compose songs and put chords to them which I use in everyday life.

Some of the French & German words and phrases are still useful at times.

Answer 8

Maths - Nothing

Science - Teach it

English - Use it alot

All others, never!

Answer 9

That GCSE's count for pretty much nothing!

Answer 10

It is now 54 years since I took "O" levels and 52 since my "A" levels and I suspect that most of what I learned has come in useful, especially as I spent my life as a primary school teacher. You get all sorts of strange questions asked by even the youngest children so my knowledge of science subjects (botany, zoology and physics) have been very useful. Out of school, I suppose the most useful has probably been my "O" level in French which, because I was very well taught, still allows me to holiday in France and be confident enough to conduct most of my conversations whilst there in French. This is frustrating to my wife who speaks hardly a word!!

All knowledge is useful if only because if you know something someone else needs to know you have a certain power over them. While I was doing my National Service in the RAF I earned extra money reading and writing letters for the illiterate young men I served with.

Answer 11

Not an awful lot, except for stuff you forget you've learned, like English and maths.

I'm 32 now, and no-one at any of the job interviews I've had has ever asked to see my GCSE results - shows how much the working community value them, eh?

And your teachers tell you they're so important...

I do use Pythagoras, actually! But only 'cos I'm an electrician, and there's lots of triangles in electrical theory. Bit specialized, that one

Answer 12

I can use many information that i learn in economics. but most of the things i can't make use in my everyday life.

Answer 13

To be honest nothing !

Answer 14

quite a lot - but only because I'm a teacher.

Outside of teaching hardly anything.

Answer 15

Quite a lot. Business studies, I use balance sheets and p+l accounts to assess my business at the end of the trading year.

I have to say I havent needed much of the maths side of the gcses, other than stats related such as collecting data and doing various market research.

English is also handy though and allows you to write decent emails to clients with the correct structure and its always handy to know about a few literature books like Of mice and men, to kill a mockingbird, a view from a bridge and hamlet etc.

Answer 16

Absolutly Sweet F A