Select SHS Subjects Wisely

When you are in your final year at the Junior High School (JHS), it becomes necessary that you decide which courses you would want to study in senior high school (SHS). Whatever programme you choose to study would be the basis of your future career.

In selecting a course of study at the senior high school, it is important that you take into consideration, the subjects you find interesting, in other words subjects that you can easily grasp and understand in order not to encounter many problems in the course of your study.

Often, students get influenced in their choice of courses in school because they follow their friends. They choose a particular course because their friends are choosing the same course. When students do that they realise when it is sometimes too late, that they are not cut out for the programmes they have opted for. Very often it might be too late to change the programme and that might eventually affect their performance in the final exam.

Students wrongly believe that for instance, brilliant students offer the sciences and students usually get influenced by this and choose that course only to realise later that it was the wrong field for them. In view of this, it is always important to let your interest inform your choice of study rather than follow your friends blindly.

At the senior high school level, the core subjects include Mathematics, Science, English and Social Studies. This means that, you have to pass these subjects before you can gain admission to any higher institution of learning. You, therefore have no choice but to study them seriously.

There are also the elective subjects which you choose according to your interest and performance. It is always advisable to select those that you are good in and also like. The options in SHS are the Arts, Businesses, Sciences, Visual Arts,Technical subjects and Home Economics.

In selecting a course of study, you can seek directives from your parents but if your parents cannot be of assistance because they are not conversant with the subjects, it would be appropraite to seek help from your teachers or elder siblings. They can guide you to select courses you can study in SHS.

Despite all the effort that you would put in now, you also have to take your studies seriously when you are in SHS to be able to perform well in your final exam. Share Your Thoughts on this article Name Email Location Comments Graphic Ghana may edit your comments and not all comments will be published