I’m sure this is going to be long but this is my first experience of this as a parent and want to make sure I’m supporting / advising DD correctly.
DD16 is naturally bright, bit lazy and loves socialising but can pull it out of the bag revision-wise when she needs to. She’s at a bog standard comp, top sets for everything, predicted 7-9s and has one 7 already.
She is totally set on choosing geography for one A level (loves it and is good at it) and thinks she’d also like to do biology and maths. Both of these worry me slightly tbh, maths because of the jump up (already talked this through with some of you on another thread 🙏🏼) and biology because it’s probably one of her weakest subjects (chemistry is her worst) BUT ‘worst’ is still a 7 which is clearly good, and importantly she loves biology , finds it interesting and it will be useful in her future path (possibly relevant: her dad is a biology professor and if she ever deigned to ask him for help he absolutely would)
Current future plans: geosciences, earth sciences, geography are all on her radar. so Geo / maths / biology all make sense for A levels.
the sixth form she wants to attend suggest everyone starts with four subjects with a view to dropping to three. This can be within a few weeks or a few months depending on how you are finding them at A level. I’m quite pleased about this idea, as I suspect she might want a ‘get out’ of maths or biology. But we are a bit stuck on choosing the fourth option, considering where she wants to go next.
Having hated English until year 10 she finally got a good teacher and now likes it. She got 8s in both for mocks . So maybe lit/lang, or pure lit? Any thoughts on which of those are a better choice?
Any other ideas? She won’t do either Chem or physics, FM also an absolute no. She likes Spanish but not enough imo (I did A level Spanish and it was rock hard despite getting A * for GSCE). She’s good at drama, predicted a 9 - should I suggest that? Or steer towards Eng lit or lit/lang instead?
if she does end up dropping maths or biology I really want her fourth option to positively add to things rather than detract or be an ‘add on’ that doesn’t really fit.
Any thoughts from people further down this road and / or teachers?
apologies for the masses of info I didn’t want to leave anything out 🙏🏼