text: My eldest is 16 next month. Her exam leave starts on Thursday. The way her school is doing it is their leave starts the day before their first exam. Her first is on Friday, Nat5 chemistry. It's the only one she's a bit worried about as she's only done chemistry this year as a filler subject as there wasn't anything else in that column that she wanted to study.
  I think it's wrong the way they have to choose subjects now, have to choose one out of each column and not the subjects they actually want. She really struggled with choosing for her 5th year Highers. Absolutely nothing at all in column 2 she wanted to study but there were 2 or 3 in column 1. I think that's so wrong, it's their life and the subjects they want to study for their chosen path, it shouldn't come down to what's in a certain column 🤷🏻‍♀️