Options year 9/10 not happy with dd’s Choices.

I don't have a teenager but business studies, good at maths, interested in history, and an aspie could all add up to make an economist somewhere down the line.

I'm a big fan of letting kids follow their interests, and nothing sounds bonkers about what your child is picking.

YABU. Forcing her to do a subject she doesn't want to do is a recipe for disaster. Just let her choose for herself.

Love GCSE Business is 100% exam based and is not easy; to get anywhere near a 4 a students needs to have strong quantitative, analytical and evaluative skills - whilst it may be seen as the "doss" subject in Lockedout's case it definitely isn't at the schools I have worked in.

The vocational qualifications for Business (BTEC, OCR Tech, NCFE Vcert) have coursework elements but also contain an exam.

" I’m not sure why she has chosen it tbh" I have said in a number of previous threads of the years at this time of year that as a subject, whilst it may seem 'easy' to adults with working/life experience it is not for a 14-18 year old.
The subject teaches them about not only finance, recruitment, marketing etc but also what is featured heavily is why a business makes the decisions they do, the impact of these decisions, the influences they have to face whether that is economic, political, environmental etc what they it is a real life subject that in my opinion should be a core subject as it helps to make sense of the world around them

It's still possible to take Science A levels with Combined Science rather than Triple. The combined science is a better preparation for A levels than the old double award.
For the new 9-1 GCSEs the course has been completely revised and is now known as Business (the studies has been dropped).
ICT has not been reformed as a new 9-1 GCSE. So it's possibly a level 2 equivalent.

For the future it doesn't matter if she does double or triple science. Many schools only teach double award science. She should aim for the best possible grades in all subjects.

Personally, I wouldn't touch business studies with a bargepole as I have a very prejudiced opinion that
a) it's likely to attract students (not OP's DD) who see it as a "doss" option so there won't be a productive atmosphere in the classroom but instead kids just wanting to disrupt and waste time
b) the "new" subjects are actually harder to get top grades in than the classics like French, Geography, History, where you just learn it and revise. The mark schemes for newer subjects seems more esoteric to me.

As I said, this is just my opinion and it may well be proved utterly wrong in many schools and by many students. I will have to become more openminded before my DC are at option choosing stage.

I have very rarely involved myself with my DC's option choices (so much so that I'm not entirely sure exactly what the boarding ones are doing). I don't see that pressing your DD down a science-y route if she's not that interested is going to be terribly helpful. One of mine now regrets not doing Divinity and is busily telling the others that they ought to choose it. Needless to say, none of them is listening...

Triple science at DD's school takes up 15 lessons a fortnight - it is a high workload of science if you DO like it, let alone if you don't lean that way.

at the end of the day whilst there is a lot especially on mn bluster about subjects chosen and as the argument flows on another thread about subjects - if your DD doesn't enjoy it she will struggle to succeed - it's far better high grades in the double science and a good grade in another subject (as pointy has pointed out , Business is not a soft subject

Doing double or single sciences doesn't make an enormous amount of difference for a student's prospects and doing triple is hard. You do need some of the love to do it. It looks like she's got a solid academic set of choices - Business is not a soft GCSE. THe only thing I'd check is whether she's doing ICT (is that still even offered?) or Computer Science? The latter would be a more substantial choice.