Betterwithcake
I have a 15 year old daughter who chose her GCSEs last year. It was a long process of finding out which subjects she found interesting and keeping her options as open and broad as possible. I would suggest that you get your son to go through each subject and either write down or discuss the positives and negatives of each subject. My daughter also found students in y10 and y11 to discus there options and how they though they were going or how much they enjoyed them. From my daughters personal experience we found that her peers who took mainly creative subjects especially art and drama were under immense pressure and couldn’t keep up. We settled after extensive research for the following;
Maths, English lit, English Lang, German (these were compulsory)
And Spanish, Food and Nutrition, Physical Education, Geography and triple science which consists of all three sciences in a far amount of depth.
Here are somethings to consider:
Does your son enjoy sciences or have some sort of interest because if so triple science may be a good option however if he doesn’t then maybe consider double science we’re all three sciences are learnt but much more briefly and less in depth + there is one less exam to sit.
Is he restricting him self and not giving himself enough options for the future. This is very important because if you don’t do a subject at gcse and then later find out you need it there is no going back.
Thirdly and finally don’t stress it takes time to make these decisions and some people find it easier than others. It took my daughter until 1 day before the deadline to finally decide what she wanted to do.
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