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Which GCSE courses to pick?

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Blaasofapute99 · 15/12/2025 08:48

my dc needs to pick 6 gcse subjects from the following list: Mandarin, Spanish, French, German, Latin, Greek, Music, Art, Design, Computer Science or Drama.

Spanish, French, Music and Computer Science is pretty much a lock but undecided on the remaining 2. Atm DC most likely wants to study something business related, i.e. finance/economics/law/management etc...

What are are the best additional two subjects DC coud pick? Thanks

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tistheseasontoeatcheese · 15/12/2025 10:54

Are there no humanities on offer or are they part of the compulsory subjects alongside these?
I’d say drama and Latin from this list.
Does it mean your DC will be taking 11/12 GCSEs? That’s a lot!

mazedasamarchhare · 15/12/2025 10:49

Drama is a good call, so much in life is about acting! Being able to give a decent presentation and having the confidence to ‘sell yourself’ are useful life skills. Given the other subjects will be heavy on the academic rigours, drama will be the ‘chill’ subject!
dont do art, dd did it, and it took up far to much time to the detriment of her other subjects.

Londonmummy66 · 15/12/2025 10:44

Latin and drama for law IMO. Drama as PP said and Latin because an ability to follow a sentence structure through subordinate clauses is inbuilt into Latin and legal drafting. Its also quite helpful to have a bit of background knowledge if he ends up on a law course that includes Roman law. THe onlu caveat to that is that Music and Drama have quite a bit of practical/coursework and that can be quite the requirement if he's not done much composition and acting etc.

Needmorelego · 15/12/2025 10:35

Drama might be good.
A lot of business involves having to have "the gift of the gab" to get going and promote/sell the business so you need to be a confident spokesperson and sometimes "fake it till you make it".
Drama would also be good for law - if he/she becomes a lawyer that also involves confident speaking and body language.

titchy · 15/12/2025 10:31

No humanities? I assume they’ll get allocated three on four of their selection - they’re not going to be doing 12 surely and still excluding Geog/Hist/RE?

TheNightingalesStarling · 15/12/2025 08:52

I'd discount Art simply for the volume of coursework on top of 11? GCSEs.

Latin will complement the languages

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