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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
Students don't take a GCSE in every subject. They start High School with a wide range of subjects but in Year 9 they narrow that down to a choice of subjects to study for the next 2 years for the GCSE exams. These are usually based on preferred career choice but Maths and English are mandatory. I took 10 subjects at that stage. That is usually narrowed down further at 'A' level. The higher the grades and the more subjects passed then the more chances of acceptance by universities. There is no overall High School Diploma here though.
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yeh the best way to add to that is its normally mandatory these days to study maths, english, science, a language and religious education if your at a secondary school. Also Physical education has to be participated in.
Then they normally get you to pick between a technology; food tech, wood tech or electronics
Then you get a choice of the other subjects:
PE (taken as a gcse)
music
art
history
geography
a possible extra language so french/german/spanish etc
statistics
business
law
health and social
Theres quite a lot of gcse options at school these days, there is at the one I went to anyway.
10 is normally the average amount of gcses u take. I got 4 B's and 6 C's. My options where food tech, music and art. The language I did was french.
I liked school but I would never go back now.