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In Year 9 you will be making a choice about which subjects to study in Years 10 and 11. At some schools, you may be making these choices in Year 8 and then studying your chosen subjects from Year 9 onwards.
You will need to choose which GCSE subjects you want to take and, depending on what your school offers, you may have a choice of other courses as well.
There are some compulsory subjects that you have to study and other optional subjects that you can take because you enjoy them or need them for your career plans.
This will probably be the biggest decision you’ve made about your future so far, but don’t worry — there’s lots of help and advice around.
This Choices @ 14 area of the website can help you with:
You can download our Year 9 Choices card. This is a handy printable sheet which tells you where to find Year 9 information. This is also available in a larger print version.
You can also download all the information from these Choices @ 14 webpages in the form of our Choices @ 14 printable booklet. You can download a larger print version of Choices @ 14 too.
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