{"id":1553,"date":"2018-01-17T00:35:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T00:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/futurepathways\/?page_id=1553"},"modified":"2018-01-18T01:59:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T01:59:30","slug":"course-choice-pupil-advice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/futurepathways\/course-choice-advice\/course-choice-pupil-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Choice – Advice from senior\/ex-pupils"},"content":{"rendered":"

Advice from pupils who have already experienced course choice:<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0DO’s:<\/h1>\n

“take a subject\/s you are good at – so that you achieve good results”<\/span><\/p>\n

“choose at least one subject you enjoy, not just subjects you need<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

“choose a range of subjects in S3\/4- you may change your mind about your career\/interest in the next few years”<\/span><\/p>\n

“find out what you need for the course or job you are interested in”<\/span><\/p>\n

“speak to teachers of the subject – find out about the subject\/the units you will study”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0DON’T’s:<\/h1>\n

“take subjects because your friends are taking them – they might drop it\/change.not be in your class”<\/span><\/p>\n

“take a subject because you like the teacher”<\/span><\/p>\n

“take too many of the same subjects – you might change your mind”<\/span><\/p>\n

“take or not take a subject because of things people tell you – eg no homework or its easy to get an A”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Advice from pupils who have already experienced course choice: \u00a0DO’s: “take a subject\/s you are good at – so that you achieve good results” “choose at least one subject you enjoy, not just subjects you need” “choose a range of subjects in S3\/4- you may change your mind about your career\/interest in the next few … Continue reading Course Choice – Advice from senior\/ex-pupils<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3233,"featured_media":0,"parent":1549,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1553","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/futurepathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/futurepathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/futurepathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/futurepathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/futurepathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/futurepathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/futurepathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1553\/revisions\/1604"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/futurepathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/futurepathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}