• Question: if you got a low grade in secondary school would you still be a scientist

    Asked by ZeXuS ZyLo to Angela, Claire, Ian, Robert, Sarah on 14 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Ian Cade

      Ian Cade answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      Well if I hadn’t got Cs or better in Maths, Science and English at GCSE, I wouldn’t have been allowed onto the A-level Maths, Chemistry, Physics and Biology courses that I did…

      … and without A-levels in at least one of the Sciences or Maths, I think it would have been fairly tough to carry on with any of the Sciences at Uni…

      So, probably no…

      So, good thing I did get good grades at science and maths then (even if I just scraped through with two Cs in English)

    • Photo: Angela Stokes

      Angela Stokes answered on 16 Nov 2014:

      Hi ZeXuS ZyLo
      Luckily I didn’t get low grades, but I know people who did and they just decided to try again and again, one of my friends sat maths four times!! There is no shame in re-sitting it shows determination and that you are willing to try and try again! I know scientists who had to resit both GCSE’s and A levels!

      So, my advice is that if you don’t do well in secondary school but you like to learn, keep plugging away at it, maybe a further education college is a better learning environment for you – where you can cut down the number of subjects and concentrate on those you like.

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