Choosing a Stream at Sixteen · Course check

Course check

3 questions. Get them all right and the Still Open seal is yours. Get one wrong and you can reread and try again — as many times as you like, and nothing is recorded against you.

1. What does a stream choice actually decide?

   Which entrance exams you can sit, and so which courses accept youWhich careers you are suited to by aptitudeWhether you are a science person or an arts person

2. What does choosing a stream mostly cost if you later change direction?

   Time and an extra step, rather than the destinationThe destination itself, which becomes unreachableNothing at all — every route stays equally open

3. Why is being good at a school subject a weak reason to choose it?

   School marks are usually inaccurateAbility at sixteen is fixed and cannot improveThe school subject and the actual work share a name and little else