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What do Computer Science an Music GCSE students look like?

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GoodyGoodyGumdrops · 14/01/2017 11:26

Dd has Options Evening coming up. She's a middle-of-the-top-set student. She has four options to choose. She is considering Computer Science and Music.

Dh and I have a concern that she is 'following' her big brother. It's really difficult to know whether she is actually choosing for herself, or from his example (she has form for this).

We also can't quite get past our own preconceptions. Ds is a total, classic geek. His desk looks like Mission Control, with all sorts of tech that he has bought himself. He learns programming languages for fun, ditto composing and technically manipulating music. So to us, that is what a Computer Science and Music GCSE student looks like.

Dd is nothing like him at all!

Really don't know how best to support and guide her.

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Damia · 14/01/2017 11:36

You're talking a lot about him but nothing about her. There is no supposed to be about anything. Does she like computers and music. Has she read the syllabus. Does she realise what she will be studying. What does she do in her spare time?

mysteryfairy · 14/01/2017 11:34

Both my DSs did GCSE music and DD is currently taking it. They are all fairly different from each other and their other subject choices were not similar. None of them is interested in computer science. They are all grade 8 instrumentalists though so have being reasonable musicians in common.

A maths teacher I know has just started heading up his school's computer science department. I work in Information Technology so asked him about his students. He said they are almost all boys and mostly second set boys aiming at b/c grades as the highest fliers are all doing triple science etc and can't afford to use an option on it.

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