Dd needs to submit her choices for Sixth Form soon. She wants to do Maths and Biology as definites. She gets good grades for them. (8s)
She did want to do Sociology as her third option which she has studied at GCSE. She got 7 for that in the last exams.
She now thinks she wants to do French and can't decide between that and Sociology. She gets 8s in French.
She doesn't know what she wants to do later.
Something else to mention is that her exam grades can sometimes be affected by her not writing fast enough and not finishing. This tends to affect essay subjects, but not so much Maths, Science, French so far. It was mentioned by her Sociology teacher at the last parents' eve. He said it could be addressed by doing lots of practice of timed essays to speed up.
I'm thinking French may be the better option in light of the above, and because it may be more useful, although she wishes she could do both. I guess how useful either might be would depend on what she ends up wanting to do.
I suggested that if she decides to do an EPQ as her enrichment option, perhaps she could choose to do it about an aspect of Sociology, so she doesn't have to drop it completely.
Any thoughts? Thanks
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LimeOrange · 05/11/2019 11:56
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