GCSE entry level for neuro diverse DD

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DDs school performance is all over the place but generally she's close to critical the pass/fail mark in GCSE mocks. Most schools would put her in for foundation level papers however her erratic performance probably due to her dyslexia and ADHD means she can drop marks on easy questions and get grade 9 ones right. Does anyone have any advice on whether doing foundation or higher GCSE papers is the best approach

Normally, Ofqual's advice is unless able to achieve a 6 pupils should sit foundation.

It's only Maths, Science and MFL.

If she's capable of doing grade 7, 8 and 9 maths questions, I'd go for the higher tier in that, because the marks to pass is only around 25% or lower and also there will be questions with harder maths but easier English.

Science it's not so obvious as if doing Combined you have to go all in with the tier, you can't mix and match. What tier did she do in mocks? Maybe do Higher for mocks and if it's a disaster drop to combined? (Assuming she has been taught the higher content that is).

MFL if she is doing it, I'd go Foundation.

@TeenDivided that's helpful advice. It's the science that were going to have the greatest challenge working out which paper she should do. I'll discuss with school in Jan.

My DD moved from 'crossover' combined science (so undecided higher or foundation) to def Foundation.
The foundation papers (a) drop a lot of the harder content (so less revision), and have more simpler questions.
Even if she can in theory do the harder science content, reducing the revision load might be helpful perhaps?