(25 Feb 2015, 9:10 pm)MarcTheA4 wrote As far as I'm aware, it's usually Year 9 that most schools choose their options in.Aye, all the schools I know pick in Year 9. However, if I'm honest, I don't think that it matters a great deal which options you pick, in terms or what you may want to do at AS, and A-level. I know that, at my school, if I didn't do GCSE History (for example) I could still do AS, if I got a B in GCSE English. Obviously for certain subjects, like languages this will be different, but I know a lot of people who do Business and IT subjects this year,who didn't take them at GCSE. This isn't me saying that GCSE's aren't important, it's just if you change your mind on what you eventually want to do for a living it's good to know that these options won't hold you back all that much
A kid who moved up from Bradford about half-way through Y7 (went to a private school...you can guess what happened) said they would have chose theirs at the start of Y8 had he not moved up.
