Article Source: https://myfuture.edu.au/career-articles/details/help-your-child-choose-school-subjects

The subject selection process is an exciting part of your child’s education journey. It allows them to reflect on how the subjects they study at school affect their future career path. And if you support your child to choose suitable subjects, they are more likely to achieve good results in their final years of school.

If your child knows what they want to study after leaving school, they can identify a number of courses to explore. Each provider and each course has prerequisites that students must meet. So it’s important that you and your child are aware of these.

In the final years of school, your child should choose subjects that:

• enable them to work from their strengths
• challenge them to make the most of their capabilities
• provide them with the qualification they need to pursue their ambitions after school
• are enjoyable while they study
• offer a range of study that is manageable, with a balance between theoretical and practical subjects
• provide life skills
• are their choice and not the choice of others.

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