Decision time! Latin/Greek Gcse

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Hello, dd has to make choices for GCSEs this week and is stuck on forth choice. At the moment she set on doing drama, geography and French alongside the normal maths, three sciences and english. We think she will do latin and Greek as her fourth choice but she is concerned about what it involves. She has studied latin for 18 months and finds the comprehensions hard but translation easier.
She would like to know if the exam is comprehension or translation based. If she didn't do Latin and Greek then she would like to do theology and philosophy or maybe even food tech.
Dd is considering going into science or law and would like to keep options as open as possible.
Any advice would be very welcome!

My DD is in her first year of Latin GCSE. She is really enjoying it. She has quite a mathematical sort of brain which helps I think as she has to learn a lot of grammar and different tenses. That might be different in Latin/Greek though. She seems to be doing equal amounts of comprehension and translation. Don't know if that helps much!

In the board ds sat for Latin there were some translations and q and a for the set texts. No unseen passages.

Thanks, she does have a mathematical brain too and could just continue with Latin on its own.I want her to do what she enjoys most and she seems to change her mind a lot on this subject.

Has anyone studied Greek to GCSE?

Yes, my DS has just done his Greek GCSE mock last week. Lots of vocab to learn and translation I believe. He's not here to ask at the moment so can't tell you more than that, sorry.

My son is doing both Latin and Greek for GCSE, I'll try and remember to ask him tomorrow what sort of syllabus they follow.