DD in Year 11 just got the following in her GCSE mocks: 77766665555
She did revise hard for them but is not very organised and really lacks confidence in herself in many ways. She has also missed lots of school (mainly in Year 10) due to medical problems so I am really proud of her for doing this well tbh! I think these results are a fairly accurate representation of what she will get in the summer - I don't think there will be any huge jumps up in grades
She is very keen on going to sixth form college with her most of her friends and doing A-levels. However, she is thinking of Biology, Psychology and English and I am concerned she will not be able to cope with 'meaty' subjects like this. She says she want to keep her options open and not do anything too specific at 16 as she doesn't have a specific career in mind yet.
However, her current school have basically suggested that she look into doing BTECs at the local FE college as a 'back up' options
There's lots of open days etc on at the minute - should I be encouraging her to go and visit them? She just assumes she'll be doing A-levels with everyone else and I don't want to dent her confidence when she's trying really hard. Equally, I don't want her to go down an inappropriate path either because I was too scared to be honest with her and tell her what her school have said!