Page 9 - Options Booklet IGCSE 2022-2023

Helping You Achieve
Helping Y ou Achiev e

Please note that for the next Academic year all pupils will study both the IGCSE

English Language and IGCSE English Literature courses, in preparation for dual
entry into both exams during the exam session of Year 11 in May/ June. These cours-
es will be taught simultaneously in the allocated English lessons.

How do you choose?

Think carefully about your answers to the following questions.

1. What career do you want?

2. What subjects do you need for the profession (s) you are interested in?

Find out what subjects you need in order to go into a particular profession (the next page gives you
a few ideas for the most popular types of degree). Ask your teachers and ask relatives / friends who
may already be following the career you are thinking about. Look up information on the Internet –
all universities have prospectuses which can tell you the subjects and grades you’ll need for courses
you might be interested in. Be pro-active and take positive action!

3. Am I choosing my subjects for the right reasons or am I being swayed by the wrong reasons?
Wrong reasons can be:

• I want to be in the same class as my friends;
• I do not like the teacher who teaches the subject I really want to do;
• I want to do this subject because everyone says it is easy;

4. Be honest with yourself. Do you have the ability to take this subject?

You know in your heart the answer; but, if in doubt, ask the teacher who knows you, and knows the

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