Year Nine - Picking Your Subjects HELP!!!

[Rachz]

Okay... So ive got the rest of year 8. But ive just found out that we have to choose subjects next year...

Anyone have more info about that?

[H.bubbly]

did you Find out from me ? coz i said it earlier today... yeh we get to choose what DT subject we choose .. such as electronics , Graphics , wood Design etc but maybe it's different at your school

[lukeisok]

Im in year nine at the moh.

Don't worry about it at the moment.

You'll do some work about what options there are.

[Seatherny]

You get to choose 4 subjects (sometimes its 3 depending on what you pick)

I just picked the 3 which I like the most ;)

ICT Dida (Takes 2 spaces)
Geography
Business Studies

I picked Music first, but moved to business

[eggd2]

if u want a good grade in science do double science

[jamiefellows 17]

True but science is sooo boring unless you do praticles...

[Tintinabulation]

There is no need to worry. Your school will hold "options talks" about each subject when you start year nine. Your form tutor and friends will help you out, don't worry about it for now.

[JackBuddy]

I chose: Graphics, Double Science, Geography and French. Choose subjects that think will help you get to the job you want. I don't know what i want to be so i chose 'Broad' subjects.
Edit: We all did DIDA automatically!

[issaa.]

I gotta pick mine when i go back after xmas, i have no idea what i wanna do :(

[Craig]

I did;
All necessary ones
MEDIA
Business
IT
Food
German

etc.

[Rarelime]

Bit of advice -- Don't pick subjects because your friends are wanting to do them. Choose them because you want to do them. Chances are if you pick a subject the same as your friends, you won't be in the same class.

[DMB-Hosting]

Bit of advice -- Don't pick subjects because your friends are wanting to do them. Choose them because you want to do them. Chances are if you pick a subject the same as your friends, you won't be in the same class.

Good piece of advice there, also dont pick them if your parents want you too either its YOUR choice.

I picked:
ICT (GNVQ) (Whoohoo worth 4 GSCE)
Geography
Rst

We had four slots ICT took up 2, Rst + Geography both took 1 each.
I totally regret picking geography i hate it!!!

[iluvben]

Meh I have to pick mine soon i already know what i want to do though ;P
We have a parents evening where we have to discuss with the teacher what we like and want to do to help us choose ''/

[Bef]

The options are different in every school, usually you will have 4 sections with various subjects in them and you will have to pick one from each section.

[Rachz]

Thanks everyone for the help. It just seems a bit early to me, at 14 to be choosing where my life is gonna wind up...

[Krusty]

When you get in to year nine
or now you could do this
Go through your time table
Think which subjects you ENJOY Then the ones you are good at.
Then pick your favourite out of both coloums
:)

[-:Undertaker:-]

Ive Gotta Pick This September Aswell :(

[Jordan3]

We only get to pick two.

[properclone]

You will get lots of talks, leaflets and evenings. It ranges between schools really and it depends what other core subjects your school give you, and if your school is a speciality school. E.g Technology school > Tech classes manditory. Music speciality school > music manditory. You may also get the choice to do a GNVQ at college as your only choice, not sure how many schools do that though.


Thanks everyone for the help. It just seems a bit early to me, at 14 to be choosing where my life is gonna wind up...
Don't worry! As long as you have the grades, you will probably get into the college/university course you want despite what subjects you took, though some are more desirable. Like if you wanted a job that was very science-based, if there was a choice like 3 seperate sciences like Biology, Chemistry and Physics, if you took that you would be more prefered for the course.

You should consider this, when chosing, in this order:

- Do I enjoy it?
- Am I good at it?
- Is it where I want to go for my future?

Hope this helps.

[Jizbojiz]

I have to choose mine this month ''/ idk when its gots got to be in we can choose 4 i'm still deciding , i'm going to decide after the parents evening we're going to have

[the wombats]

You will get lots of talks, leaflets and evenings. It ranges between schools really and it depends what other core subjects your school give you, and if your school is a speciality school. E.g Technology school > Tech classes manditory. Music speciality school > music manditory. You may also get the choice to do a GNVQ at college as your only choice, not sure how many schools do that though.


Don't worry! As long as you have the grades, you will probably get into the college/university course you want despite what subjects you took, though some are more desirable. Like if you wanted a job that was very science-based, if there was a choice like 3 seperate sciences like Biology, Chemistry and Physics, if you took that you would be more prefered for the course.

You should consider this, when chosing, in this order:

- Do I enjoy it?
- Am I good at it?
- Is it where I want to go for my future?

Hope this helps.

I made the mistake of them questions, I went and picked History when I don't need it. So I just don't go to it now.

[Meellly]

If you think it's bad when you have to choose your year 9 option wait until you get into year 11. You'll have to choose if you want to go to college, which one, what subjects etc

My advice is to choose not only the subjects you like, but choose subjects that you excel in, even if they are boring. And don't choose a subject because you have a crush on your teacher! ;)

[=tam=]

Hey Hun - I am in year 9 this year and I am from Australia, Il give you a list of the compulsory subjects we have and ones that we can chose 2 from

Compulsory Subjects
- Maths
- English
- Science
- Sport
- Religeous Education
- Humanites
- Art
- French OR Japanese


* Electives/YR9 SUBJECTS - WE GOT TO CHOSE 2:
- Sport Science (About Bones and the Body
- French } MUST do one language! CANT do none - can do both
- Japanese } MUST do one language! CANT do none - can do both
- VCD (An Arty Subject
- World Of Writing (About Books & Types of texts)
- Food Technology (Cooking)
- Drama
- Music

Im doing Sport Science and Japanese but French is the one I chose to do out of the compulsory List.

I have some advice for you: When you come to chosing these subjects, pick things that YOU are interested in, some girls picked things because their friends did and they ARENT enjoying it! Pick something that is appealing to you and is something you ARE INTERESTED IN!

You are stuck with them the whole year, so be sure in what you pick :D Dont worry about picking things based on what you want to b when you're older - Yr 10 for us is when you can branch off and pick SPECIFIC and SPECIALIST subjects based on whta you want to do with you're future

= Good Luck & Pick What You This Is Best fOR You! = :)

[nets]

You get to choose 4 subjects (sometimes its 3 depending on what you pick)
That's dependent on your school.

[Raremandan]

You shouldn't really ask other people about this as it's your own choice. Don't do something because your mates doing it. People I know have done this and they don't like it.

Nevertheless I picked:

ICT - GNVQ/NVQ
ICT (College) - EDSL, New Clait +
Music - Practical

[Php]

Like every one has said, dont worry bout it

i took

i.t
business studies
History
P.E

[FlyingJesus]

To be honest, it doesn't matter what you take at GCSE as long as you can get the grades. English and Maths you generally need C or higher to get into most college courses, and if you're doing one or more sciences after high school then you'll need the Science grade too (but it usually doesn't matter if you do double award or triple). Other than that, your GCSE marks are generalised (as in, you need such-and-such amount of over C grades to do such-and-such course at college) so it really should just be what you enjoy. Your college A levels will decide on your career and/or uni entries if anything, but once you've done A levels no-one will ever look at GCSE results again.

[Lycan]

Yea,

Just Choose Something you like and If its Revelent to Any Future Career Even Better, i'm the next stage further , I've Just got my Provsional Placement In Collage! , I've Already got a Couple GCSE's from year 10, all i need is my GNVQ at Pass (exspected higher but lazy) and i'm in... when it comes round to it, your probebly get a sheet with it on

For example i choose

GNVQ - Single Option
History
Business (Terrible Bleugh! Our teacher is just wrong)
and Food Tech (Biigg Project)

You Usually HAVE to do Science Maths etc, but this year our yr 9's didn't have to do a technology... lucky ****, Nor a Langauge (German, French etc),

Overall , Your get a Sheet, your look at the Options and Your just no what you want to do

Bleugh, Also We Had to Do Statistics In Yr 10 , - hated everyminute of it, but thats usally the school does it or it doesn't

[FlyingJesus]

I didn't have to do a language, which is good from my point of view (good old lazy Englishman), but had to do RE/RS, which I hated at first but now I like it, so all's well. As said before, just pick what you like. I do Music, Graphics, Art and History, and I'm a perfectly happy chappy ^_^ Doesn't affect college at all, next year I'm doing Philosophy, Psychology, Gvmt Politics and something else I still need to choose... all I need is 5 C's or above out of my 11 exams, so basically I'm made. Watch out, next Prime Minister here :P

[Lycan]

Yea, Thankgod they got rid of that Compuls Laungage, but i think there bringing it back after they rename the gcse , lol

Half Course RE, our class is messed up, our teacher just walked of, then we had a replacement who was insane (claimed she could talk to her dead mother) now we have a women who refuses to let me watch songs of praise so i can fall alseeep

[FlyingJesus]

Hahaha sounds like you've had the best assortment of teachers possible. I really hope they go extra-strict on GCSE stuff after this year, that would just be really funny. For me anyway, not so much for people younger than I.

[Lycan]

well there replacing them soon arn't they? this years yr9 get a easyier IT course, which gives them a choice of double or single giving them a easyier choice with ether 4 or 2 gcses, rather then our gnvq which is 4 gcses in ether 1 slot or 2, which is easy but boring as hell

[Heather]

We were allowed two choices as we had a lot of compulsory subjects, so I chose ones I enjoy which were history and RE.

[Polly-alyssa]

I'm in yr 8 too, got sats this yr, we have extended learning so have them a yr early. so nxt yr apparently its like a fun year. I don't know much about options. But gcse's at my skl are well out. We have to take 8 set ones. 1 maths, 1 technology (i h8 tech), 3 science (only wna take 1), and 2 english. I would wnt to take maths, 2 english, physics, Ict, art, history and latin, it is outt tho cuz we can only take 11, 8 chosen for us.

[Colourful™]

I'm in year 9 and have to pick my options by this Friday!!! My advice is to take your time on thinking about it and make sure that you really want to do that subject, and what it could do for you in the future.

[Groovy]

Usually you choose about 3 subjects that you want to do gcse in. You have to do the basic subjects like, english, science and maths and in my school I got to pick 3 from: geography, history, art, art and design, DT:rm, DT:cooking, business studies, media studies, health and social care, RE or PE.
Its probably different in different schools though. =]

[iluvben]

Mine have to be in before next thursday mine were in ages ago , ive changed them alot now we have to choose 4 and ICT and RS are complusory so thats why we have more choices atm my 4 are Drama , social studies , food tech and music

[bubble79]

You get to choose 4 subjects (sometimes its 3 depending on what you pick)

I just picked the 3 which I like the most ;)

ICT Dida (Takes 2 spaces)
Geography
Business Studies

I picked Music first, but moved to business

Not necessarily. That varies from school to shcool. Most places seem to choose 4, except we choose 5. We do have more strict methods of choosing than other shcools though, because we have to do a tech, a practical, a humanites, and a language, plus 1 free.

I chose a while ago, and chose music for my tech, history for my humanites, French for my language, Critical thinking AS level for my short course, and I arranged not todo a tech, to do slightly mroe than usual of the compulsory ICT, and to take Geography.

We do compulsory double science, maths and Engluish, plus we do 'complimentary studies' where we do 2 terms of RE but get no qualifications, 1 term of health ed. and 2 terms of ICT where we get a CLAIT level 1 (except I'm doing a level 2 because of the not doing a tech thing) certificate.Most schools around here have compulsory full RE though

[iluvben]

Not necessarily. That varies from school to shcool. Most places seem to choose 4, except we choose 5. We do have more strict methods of choosing than other shcools though, because we have to do a tech, a practical, a humanites, and a language, plus 1 free.

I chose a while ago, and chose music for my tech, history for my humanites, French for my language, Critical thinking AS level for my short course, and I arranged not todo a tech, to do slightly mroe than usual of the compulsory ICT, and to take Geography.

We do compulsory double science, maths and Engluish, plus we do 'complimentary studies' where we do 2 terms of RE but get no qualifications, 1 term of health ed. and 2 terms of ICT where we get a CLAIT level 1 (except I'm doing a level 2 because of the not doing a tech thing) certificate.Most schools around here have compulsory full RE though
All the years before me had to choose 3 , but it changed to 4 because French became un-compulsory when it use to be :p

[Pyros!]

Just choose what you think will intrest you. If however, you are choosing a subject you have never done beofre, like I did with Buisness and COmmunication Systems, ask what the works consists of and ask for a sylabus from the previous year. I have regretted taking the subject and I do wish I didnt take it. :)