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Haileyburiana is a miscellany of things I got up to as President of the Haileybury Society in 2010 - 2011 and random musings on things to do with Haileybury. Whether you are an OH, a current pupil or parent, a teacher or other friend of the school I hope you will find something interesting here. The blog is no longer regularly updated, but there may still be occasional posts.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Options, Options


We were at Haileybury late on Sunday evening for the Removes options evening. The young people have to choose which subjects to do at GCSE and iGCSE. Since many universities use the results at this level to determine the offers they make of places the choices made now at 13 and 14 years old can have a bearing on the whole life of the children. No pressure then.

Everyone does the following:

English Language
Mathematics
A Modern foreign language, which may be their mother tongue if not English; French; Spanish; Italian
Religious Studies
Science

Science can be studied as a course in Biology, Physics and Chemistry leading to two GCSEs or as three separate subjects, which uses up one of the options.

The options require one to choose one subject from each of the groups:

What would you do?

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