Altrincham Grammar School for Girls

Choosing your Subjects

As you make your subject choices consider the questions below.

Strengths and Weaknesses

What are yours?

• Do you feel really comfortable with your chosen subjects at GCSE and able to continue with them to a higher level?
• Are you likely to get the subject specific grades required?
• Have you discussed these with your subject teachers?

Interest and Enjoyment

• Have you demonstrated a genuine interest in a proposed subject?
• Do you enjoy it?

New Subjects

• If you are considering a subject completely new to you, have you examined your reasons?
• Do you know what the subject involves?
• Do you have any skills relevant to that subject?

Career or Higher Education Course Requirements

• If you have a career or higher education course in mind, does your choice of AS and A2 levels comply with entry requirements?
• Have you researched current requirements first hand from, for example, the universities' publications and careers literature?

Skills

• Do you know what sort of studies and activities the course contains?
• Does it involve practical work, numeracy, problem solving, essay writing, out-of-school activities?
• Do the skills you will practise reinforce or complement those in your other subjects?

Safety Net

• Do you need to have a reserve subject or other "safety net" in mind?