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GCSE choice time!
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If she does drama (good GCSE and not a soft option)land goes for a interview for law tell her to be careful.
They may well ask her if she thinks the drama will be useful.
This is a !trick" question.The wrong answer is " yes, a lot of the law is acting, in court and so on"
The RIGHT answer is " NO. Law is about the pursuit of the truth and justice, drama is about acting"
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Well "yes, as its given me xyz transferable skills" is probably also a right answer. Also long as you avoid the "alot of law is acting..."
When it comes to GCSE's, pick the subjects that allow you to continue to where you want to go, try and pick some to keep options open or to experience something different, and concentrate on the basics. Maths and English are probably the only grades that will ever get looked at on their own out side of a school setting. Oh and maths crops up in the strangest of places. I believe alot of psychology students get a rude shock about how much stats is used, and the LLB has a large section on billing you have to pass...0 -
oh yes its good useful GCSE. I didnt mean to infer otherwise.
The skills obtained are very valuable.
As Whitfreak put it rather better than me, just avoid saying law is like acting! Does not go down well.Norn Iron Club member 4730 -
DH is a law lecturer ( A level ) says...GCSE law is an academic GCSE, which as a subject is as good as any other. Universities won't worry too much about non-core subject choices, rather, A level grades.
DH every year has students going on to Oxbridge with A level law, which is fully recognised and accepted.
Will this choice be what makes your child happy and motivated? This may be a better question to ask?
Lucky child to have a parent who is so interested and concerned.:T:TPlease do not confuse me with other gratefulsforhelp. x0 -
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My sons options are a joke! He can choose just two from a list including performing arts, travel and tourism, hospitality, construction and business/ICT!!!!!!! I am speechless at these choices. He, of course, wants to go for the easy option of performing arts because 'he wants to be an actor' - reality shows have got a lot to answer for. :mad: I wouldn't mind if he was serious about this but he doesn't even take an interest in the school plays and he is just an average singer - I'm not going to tell him he's brilliant when he isn't!!! I keep trying to talk him out of it and tell him about the thousands of out of work penniless actors. And acting won't pay the bills when he has a family to support. He thinks he is going to end up being in a Disney film/musical! What happened to the good old syllabus and traditional choices? Kids want the easy option now without thinking about the future - and there's no future in faffing about with performing arts!0
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My son had a huge list to choose from and hes decided to do a BTEC in ICT resistant materials and a diplomas in engineering, if he gets in, he has to be interviewed for the diploma. The BTEC is one option the diploma is 3 options.
Most girls he knows want to do health and beauty, media studies and drama, the boys seem to favour the 2 building options along side the broad base of compulsory subjects.
he has the choice of mandarin and russian alongside the normal langauge.
Photography is the most popular topic in the none compulsory subjects according to my sons head of year.0 -
I haven't read all of the replies.
I wouldn't listen too much to your neighbour. The Law does change on an ongoing basis, and if your daughter does a law degree, she will find things change between now and then. They will change a lot more in her first ten years of practise, if she decides to go down that route.
I would aim for fairly traditional options, with the idea being that grades are most important, but traditional subjects do go down better, especially with people who maybe didn't have the option to study say sociology or were steered away from it.
Ideally the GCSE choices should be something like English Lit, English Lang, Maths, History, French or other language, a science - this may be a double science option and Law.
The benefit of this is that your daughter will either like it or not - I think it's like studying history myself - which doesn't mean she will be a good or bad lawyer in the future, but may affect her A level chices. At A level, I would ring the Universities and ask them.
If she does want to be a solicitor, I would help her to organise work experience with local firms as soon as possible, perhaps in the summer holidays, as it is very important to get in with a firm for references and practical experience if at all possible. Getting a training contract is again nigh on impossible and any contact with a firm previous to completing the degree can make all the difference.
If there is an IT or computer option, and she would be good at it, that may be useful.
Wishing her every success in whatever she chooses to do.0 -
Law change on a regular basis? I know my mate at uni had to buy new books each year and it had to be that year's edition. Not like me and physics...
Work experience is definately a bonus in whatever field you want to go into. But doubly so for law it seems.
Another thing to throw in when it comes to university admissions is INAT which is the Law equivalent of STEP (maths). Some universities are using it some are not. Durham is currently but Cambridge have stopped, and it might not be around in a couple of years anyway. But after having a quick look at it (at http://www.lnat.ac.uk/) it seems to be a verbal and numerical reasoning test, and then an essay (not law based).0 -
This thread has been really helpful for me, thank you, my oldest is also picking his GCSE's at the moment and also wants to do law when he's older.
Thanks for all the information
Jog0
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