Opinions from parents, pupils, teachers desperately needed.
DD2 has been doing Latin GCSE for 6 months in an out-of-school class. The teacher has not covered all the long course (4 papers) yet and time is clearly running out as she has said the kids need to cover one of the papers in their own time or should consider if they would prefer to enter for the short course exam (2 papers) instead.
I think the short course seems a pretty good idea but there seems to be a school of thought that short courses aren't taken seriously by anyone and in Latin it's long course or bust!
My thinking is a do-able C or possible B (on a good day) at short course is better than the risk of a D in long course but I'm a novice at all this stuff.
Clearly this is an 'extra' GCSE done by DD2 for 'pleasure' and is really there just to show DD is keen to expand her knowledge and has had the commitment to stick with it up to the exam.
Would unis in future really dismiss the GCSE short course grade as worthless given it's done in DD's own time?
Or is it worth taking a punt on the long course exam? DD is not a natural swot but would almost certainly get a C or above over the 2 papers...the thought of her covering and revising 4 papers worries me a bit and I could see her just missing a C.
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Short course versus long course Latin - a calculated risk..what would you do?
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mumalot · 11/02/2013 20:17
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