General Studies

Quite widely accepted as a total waste of a students time whilst providing them with a largely useless A-Level. The teachers do enjoy being able to rant on about any 'General' topic... usually their own subject. Apparently this subject can be used to enable staff to divide the genii and the averagely clever, however they mostly just bolster everyone's A-Level totals to astronomical numbers.

While all students in the Upper Sixth are entered for the general studies exam, only those with fewer than four subjects are timetabled with the subject. Since these are the people who invariably do better at the subject, this merely acts as proof that all such lessons may as well be frees.