• Question: from the start did all of you scientists find science hard?

    Asked by aqibrehman to Emma, Jen, Joseph, Michael, Mona on 15 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by codytyler002, kammy, meganpower.
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      Michael Taggart answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      Yes! I started doing physics, chemistry amd maths. The last two I was lucky to be quite good at. Physics I hated and physics hated me – at least, my teacher encouraged me to drop it when I was doing it in 5th year of school. I didn’t but it took up most of my studying time to get my head around it. Needless to say, I didn’t do physics at university.

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      Mona Gharaie answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      It was dificult at the beginning, but when I leanred more, I realised that I like it. There are some part of science which I still do not like, such as physics, it may be due to the fact that I never tried to learn them very well.

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      Jen Gupta answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      I guess I always found some aspects of science hard. At school I found maths, physics and chemistry pretty easy but I hated biology because I found it hard! At A level I stopped enjoying chemistry as much. At university I found that there were parts of physics that I found hard and parts that I found easy. Funnily enough, the parts that I found easy and got good marks in the exams for were not always the parts that I enjoyed!

      I think the difference now is that because I love doing astronomy, when I find something hard I see it as a challenge instead and I work on it until I understand!

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      Emma Bennett answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      Yes and no. Having to cover biology, chemistry and physics at school was a little bit hard as I just didn’t understand a lot of chemistry – and to be honest I still don’t – but biology seemed really easy. Plus at my school we spent a lot of time just learning facts to write down in an exam (boring) and because my brain is not wired in a way that retains lots of information easily I certainly struggled around exam times. As you start specialising into a particular area of science though it does get easier because you tend to be drawn towards topics that you’re good at.

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