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Wouldn't that apply to you as you seem to be quite bitter about having done Mathematics?russianROULETTE said:what's the point of this thread? there's nothing stopping students who DO want to do maths, why should everyone else have to. in fact i see a number of reasons why it shouldn't be.
1. in the past couple of years i haven't used any maths except for simple percentages, addition, subtraction, equations etc, and i sure as hell will NEVER use trig. so unless people have a specific reason for studying it, it is pointless.
2. uni courses involving maths usually have maths as a prerequisite/assumed knowledge. so the people who need those skills will already be doing maths. if not, there are bridging courses.
3. as foreverpink implied in an earlier post, you can say that every subject should be compulsory because of the skills they teach us. in the end, only the board has the authority to say which should be.
4. maths, at least for me, was somewhat time consuming. for people who aren't good at it or don't want to study it, that time is better spent on other subjects.
i don't see why it should be compulsory, and i think the majority of people who say it should are good maths students who are bitter about having to do english.
I can basically give all the reasons why English SHOULD NOT be compulsory. I will basically copy your points. However, I strongly believe that English should be compulsory, I just don't want it to be counted towards UAI if that is not the top 10 Units.