I’m after some objective advice please. Ds is starting sixth form at a new school (in a new area) in Sept. He’s bright (currently at a grammar school), but not particularly academically minded, much more interested when he can apply things in real life. He has ADHD and gets extra time and rest breaks for exams. Despite this, he generally doesn’t finish (except for Biology and Business as far as I remember from his GCSEs).
He doesn’t think he wants to go to uni as he wants to get out and earn money but he’s interested in a degree apprenticeship. He’d like to be self employed one day! He struggles to study for extended lengths of time and all his GCSE revision was done in 20-30 minute chunks. He writes very well but is very slow. He’s even slower at reading… I have no idea what his results will look like as until his actual GCSEs he never did sufficient revision. He’s also really into fitness and weight training.
He would have done PE, but as he doesn’t have an approved sport for the practical he’s doing single BTEC sport instead. He is also doing Business A Level. Out of the possible options for subject 3, he’s narrowed it to History, Biology and Criminology (WJEC level 3 diploma). He’s very good at history, capable of a 9, but not finishing has previously brought him down to a 7. He really enjoyed History - but did have a superb teacher. He’s done combined science (his choice) but found Biology the most interesting and easiest. I thought he might find Sociology or Psychology interesting (and so did he) but they’re in the wrong block - but Criminology includes aspects of both. I’m struggling to know how to steer him. He says he’ll wait til results day and make a snap decision then 😬