Changing a GCSE after a year…any experience?

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Hi have had end of year report for ds in yr10 and he’s doing pretty well from his end of year exams 7/8s however his art has come back as a 3 😳. I was surprised when he picked this as he is doing triple science and will be going down that route.

he is consistently getting low marks in this subject

the art work is pretty time consuming and he seems to enjoy it but does not have the flair expected and I think he will really struggle next year when prepping for his exams..
I have contacted the school to ask but don’t expect to hear back before end of term
pic is to show his style
does it matter what I think? It would be a shame if he got a 3 though for his GCSES
thanks

English counts as 2 so he has 10 at the moment.

School may just let him drop it, or if not, he could just do it and choose not to put it on his CV.

There is no point giving too much thought to exactly what to replace it with. There's likely only to be a handful of options depending on the timetable and which classes have space. Something like a switch to commercial art from fine art or whatever might work but concentrating on his other 9 is probably a better investment for him than slogging to pick up a random new 10th GCSE

Can't change at this late stage but if he's not enjoying it he can drop it and not continue.

Get him to paint in a more abstract than literal way they seem to like that

He should research student GCSE work who have got high marks to give him more of an idea of what's expected

Surely it would be less work for him to bring his art grade up than to cover the entire first year of a new gcse over the summer?
Also, why does it really matter to a)him b) you?