@Humifiedalien

1 month ago

Hey Gohar, I know you probably aren’t going to see this but I’m going to ask anyway because why not. I live all the way in the UK and am going to choose my GSCEs in March. In my school we are allowed to do 10 subjects but quite a few of those are mandatory: Maths English language and literature Physics Biology and Chemistry and one of the 5 languages my school has for you (French, Spanish, Mandarin, German or Russian). This leaves Art, Classical Civilisation, Computer Science, Design Technology and Engineering, Drama, Geography, Greek, History, Latin, a second Modern Language, Music and Religion Studies. The problem is I’m really not sure to do for my 4 subjects. To put it in short I’m bad at basically everything on this list, the only thing I could do relatively well is, Greek Latin and Art. Unfortunately they all have downsides, I already have to do 1 mandatory language (I’m still deciding between Spanish or French) so I don’t really want to do 1 let alone 2 dead languages in addition to that. Whereas for Art I know it is a very long and tiring subject, I have heard stories about 2 straight 5 hour exams over the span of 2 days, no talking eating or listening to music. I know this may sound standard to you and college students but I have ADHD and the thought of doing something like that for 5 hours straight for a subject I kinda feel is mediocre just sounds like straight torture, not to mention my school is really strict with the mock exams too and I have seen people CRYING after their mocks every May. I guess after all that would be DTE (design tech and engineering) but I’m not even good at THAT, the thought of making stuff just sounds fun to me, but I hate planning which I know is a huge part of it. Besides all this my family along with my school pressures is to fit History or Geography on there and it’s mostly the norm. In the end though, GCSEs won’t determine what you want to do in university and that’s up to A levels, but I still want to have subjects that I am sort of good at/enjoy since I will be working on them for all of Year 10 and Year 11 (grade 9 and 10 I think) Do you think you can tell me which subjects would be for me? Enjoyment comes last unfortunately. (The norm in my school is 8 and 9s since I go to a very competitive private school)

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