GCSE Options.
 

Hey guys,
i'm currently having to think about what options i'm going to take for my gcse's and i'm quite nervous. I don't have a clue what my career path is and i haven't tried most of the subjects out.What did you all take and did you enjoy it ?

Bump.

I took:

Compulsory;;
- English Literature.
- English Language.
- Maths.
- Science.
- Additional Science.

Options;;
- ICT.
- French.
- Drama.
- Music.

If I'm honest.. I liked all my options, except English, I hated all my compulsories.

I'm doing this too atm. I'm definatly choosing Drama and possibly Media, or I might do Child Development as I want to become an English or Drama Teacher.


What subjects do you enjoy doing? Do you have a career tree or an idea of some of the stuff you'd consider?

Health and social care and spanish. I loved both! Im still doing Health and Social care though. Its fun.

Did you do the OCR national for I.T ?
My Compulsory lessons are Science,English,Maths,P.E,D.T and Citizenship,
So i don't really have space for my options :(

I wanted to do Drama because i got good grades at a younger age,
but i currently got an F for this year :bawling:
I really want to take Media and i've decided i'm definently taking French because there is a better chance of me getting into university.

Is Health and social care like Sociology ?

Compulsory subjects:

English
Maths
Triple Science

My choices:

Religious Studies
History
French
Spanish

Well ICT is pretty important nowadays, so imagine how important it will be in a few years.

Deffenatly do that as pretty much every job now involves Computers.

Yeah, I did the OCR one.

my advance would be to stay away from all the media kind of things

but then again i am very academic and not everyone is

i took Maths Statistics, Geography and History

It's boring as hell though, so I wouldn't recommend it.

Is Religious Studies good ?
That was another i had in mind.
It says the topics to do with philosophy, which i enjoyed when i tried it out.

YES, you really should do RS. You will almost certainly watch a DVD in every lesson and have a few serious lessons each term and the exam is very, very easy. The occasional philosophical debates we have are interesting too.

I took :
Drama
Geography
Resistant Materials (woodwork and that)
More ICT (I was offered to do it in September of Year 11... I'm doing 2 courses)

Compulsory -
Maths
Science
More Science
English Lang
English Lit
Media
ICT
Welsh
RS

I found it so interesting talking about such topics like plastic surgery and test tube babies, there was many more as well, so i'm actully swaying towards taking that instead of Drama.

Mine -

Compulsory subjects:

English
Maths
Tripple Scence
ICT
Religious Studies
PE

Options:

Spanish
History
Graphics
Psychology

I was wondering what D.T topic to do,
Is the stuff your doing like Product Design

I was the same i still dont really have much idea what i want to do and now i have to pick which college courses i want to do which is even harder.

Anyway for my options I choose....
ICT
Food Tech
Business Studies
Art

I hate all of them except Food Tech,
I don't know if that's going to be an option for me :(

Compulsor;
English - Lang. Lit
French
Maths
Phys
Bio
Chem

Options;
Geography
Divinity
Spanish
Graphic Tech

Ah! but Drama's amazing <3

But nah, seriously, pick four subjects you enjoy and have an interest in.

I took Drama, Geography and Art

I am now an actor... so mine kind of directed me a little bit, but I was never an academic person anyway!

Your right.
I have eight weeks to think about it.
Thanks for everyone's help :)

It's woodwork pretty much.

We make 3 things, a tray, (model) chair and a container... we could make whatever we wanted out of these... own designs etc :)

and then in year 11, you make one big project :) I'm making a birdhouse!