Talk to me about Drama and Ancient Greek GCSEs please?

[RitaCrudgington]

DD is coming to the end of year 8, so vaguely thinking about GCSE choices that she'll be making next year.

She's at an academically selective school and will be doing 3 sciences and at least 1 MFL. She fancies Latin, which she's very good at, and is thinking about Ancient Greek (pushed by not entirely disinterested Latin teacher) and/or Drama as her optional choice(s).

Could anyone tell me a bit more about what those subjects involve at GCSE? I don't have any particular feelings either way - it's just that I've no personal experience of either subject and I'm curious as to what you actually do for a GCSE in either. Does Drama have a horrific workload like Art? Does Ancient Greek at GCSE make any kind of sense given that many (most?) undergraduates will come to it fresh?

(Of course I know whatever anyone says will be out of date by 2018 when Govebots will be reading the answers to the questions directly from each student's brain).

Thanks

Sorry - I meant translate English into Greek as well as vv.

DD did drama GCSE and struggled with negotiating group work. Finding times when people weren't working, at an extra curricular activity, had a catch up class for another subject, etc was hard even with people who wanted to do well.

She is still keen on taking drama A level mostly essay based and maybe classical civilisation (which is not quite as full on as Greek).

Thymeout you are right the discussion is about GCSEs, I just made a leap to the more extreme example of A levels.

It does of course depend what other subjects are being taken. I think the usual accepted wisdom is that 8 'academic' GCSEs is plenty.

I got the impression on the GCSE support thread that Latin and Greek both had quite a few exams, maybe four apiece?