GCSE's accumulative or prior knowledge.

[morethanpotatoprints]

Just wondered how many subjects at GCSE are taken with dc having little or no prior knowledge. Or that the GCSE does not depend on knowledge gained throughout the secondary years.

I know Maths and English are because obviously what we learn from a young age has a bearing on these subjects.
But what other subjects are like this and which aren't.
I know and have heard of people gaining a GCSE in Art and Music without having any previous skills. The syllabus seems to support no prior knowledge.

I am interested in others experience and tia.

[Bonsoir]

Start one language at a time if they are MFL - no doubt at all.

[morethanpotatoprints]

Thank you Bonsoir it will be Italian definitely and then either French or German.
The teacher is fluent in French, but can teach all the other MFL offered in schools. This sounds like a good second language and somebody told me the masculine and feminine were the same for French and Italian.

[Bonsoir]

That's not true - masculine and feminine are not necessarily the same at all in French and Italian. Italian is a lovely language and much easier to read and write than French.