As soon as we get your choices we start to work out how many classes we need for each subject and begin work on next year’s timetable.
We will make it clear on the school website if we are still accepting applications. All offers of places are subject to meeting the entry requirements so we sometimes have a small number of places available after GCSE Results Day on 20 August; please look at the website on the morning of 21 August to see our status.
We do our best to meet everyone’s requests and can normally accommodate most combinations of subjects. In the Spring Term we create the main option blocks and it is possible that we cannot fit everyone’s permutations at that point although this is unusual.
Subjects will only run if there are sufficient students wanting to take them.
If you want to change your subjects after submitting your application then you have a better chance if it is before we have made the option blocks and created the classes, but we will always try to fit you in if we can. We don’t normally let anyone change courses after the first three weeks of the Autumn Term.
If you take Further Maths you may be an exception to the rule but for everyone else the answer is no, for two reasons.
The first is practical: there are no main subjects apart from Further Maths available in the Extension Studies block.
The second is that taking three (or four) main subjects is quite sufficient to gain entry to any university course or employment. If you feel you have extra capacity then it is much better used on developing other skills which will assist your application, or even just giving you some spare time.
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