Dd having second thoughts about an A Level subject

[Dancergirl]

She's doing English Lit, Sociology and History. She's realised after 5 weeks that she's not enjoying History.

A few things bothering her - she worked really hard for her GCSE and still only got a B (although she got 75% overall, high grade boundaries).

They spent the first few weeks just watching films, now the work has started she's not enjoying it and finding it boring. She doesn't want to stick it out for 2 years.

She's thinking of possibly changing to Spanish but not sure. I suggested a science, maybe Biology (she got AA for dual Science).

I assume it's not too late to change?

At our school they take 4 subjects in y12 then drop one either at Christmas or end of yr 12 (despite no AS) to cover this eventuality especially if chosing an A level subject that they haven't studied before eg. politics, sociology etc.

Also they let you change at any time before half term but after that point a subject can only be dropped down from 4 to 3 subjects.

Well she's spoken to the school and it's not a problem for her to change to Spanish. Fits in with timetable too.

All the best of luck to her :)

I hope she enjoys it!

Note : none of the above was meant to sound scathing or sarcastic!

DS (now 23) started A Level Spanish along with 4 others, always knowing that she would drop one after a few weeks and had chosen 4 she liked the best. She said that in Spanish such a lot of work was covered in the first few weeks that it made her mind up to drop Spanish.

I know she'll have to work hard to catch up on what she's missed but better do it now rather than any later. My neighbour's daughter did Spanish A level and is now at university, she knows dd and does the odd bit of tutoring so she can always help dd at half term if necessary.

Mistakenly I hadn't got to end of the thread to see that the decision had been made. Certainly no point in telling you that lots of work would have been covered once the decision has been made! As you say def better to change now rather than later and it all can be caught up on if she works to do that! For my DD she kept Biology, Law, Maths and Music but she probably started A levels pretty much knowing that they were the ones she wanted to keep anyway!