Its a bit more complicated than normal as bar EOTAS tutors, our DD has missed 18 months of school due to ill health. She goes back to school to join year 9 in September, which she is both really looking forward to, but is naturally very nervous too.
She is a worry wort by nature & is already stressing about the year 9 subject choices, as she rightly feels that she has missed so much scool, yet she has a big decision to make & little experience of many the subject choices, so I'm hoping for some pointers for her please.
She has her heart set on studying medicine, has done since she was about 8 we still hope she will go for a less stressful career choice-- rarely she mentions if she can't be a doctor, forensic science looks interesting, so unless she changes her mind, it looks likely that she will chose to go for a science career.
She is very bright, loves school & learns easily, despite being very ill has managed to more than keep up with her Maths, Science & English lessons, passing a mock GCSE in Maths as a confidence booster. So having spoken with her school, who are great, we are very hopeful that the time missed wont have too huge an impact on her schooling in the long term.
What could help her, especially with putting her mind at rest as far as GCSE subject choices go, would be knowing what subjects are best to take if you want to study medicine?
Does the choice of University make a difference, (we have a good one locally that she is keen to go to) or are there basic core GCSEs that are needed to get in ?
Also are languages needed, this is a topic she is hoping to drop in favour of concentrating on what she needs, as she is going to be way behind & doesn't enjoy languages anyway, she finds them more stressful to do well in as its not her strength. She is a bit obsessed with staying in top study groups for everything as the kids in those groups are more learning focussed & so less disruptions, so she has really piled the pressure on herself even more so with languages in the past. She can do it if she needs it, but hoping she doesn't to save her some stress as its going to be a tough time for her anyway ??
Both DH & I had careers in the Arts, so we dont really have a clue
TIA
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RockinHippy · 18/08/2016 11:32
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