It seems to depend very much on when and where you went to school. I did Nuffield chemistry for A-Level, '72-'74. It was very much about learning experimental

It seems to depend very much on when and where you went to school. I did Nuffield chemistry for A-Level, '72-'74. It was very much about learning experimental methods and how to analyse the results. Physics was similar with great emphasis on analysis. But in conversations with others at university afterward (Exeter uni, Physics) I discovered that many of my fellow students had endured exactly the situation that your quote mentions.