1.How to Decide What to Study

This is your starting point. For some students, the choice of subject is obvious, and may have been for some while, but other students find it harder to decide. There are many different courses available, covering subjects which you may not even have thought about.

Listed below are some ways you can narrow down the choice of what subjects might be best for you. Remember, in some cases, choices of subjects can dictate future career opportunities, so it is important to do your research before coming to a decision.

Unifrog - Psychometric Testing

A good starting point, to help choose a course, is to use your Unifrog account. All Claremont sixth form students have their own personal Unifrog account. In addition, the Claremont Sixth Form team can provide parents with their own Unifrog account, so they can support their son/daughter with their research. Please get in touch with us if you would like a parental Unifrog account (contact details are at the back of this document).

Unifrog’s comprehensive psychometric testing is an enjoyable way to explore your interests, strengths, and areas for development, and to see how results relate to possible careers and subject choices. This helps to build a foundation to then conduct focused careers research in the areas that most interest you.

Unifrog has four different personality "quizzes" which will suggest subject and career suggestions. The four quizzes are:

- interests profile - based on John Holland's theory of personality and job choices

- personality profile - based on the theory behind the Myers-Briggs personality framework

- work environments profile - based on the ONET ‘Work contexts’, and gets students to consider different work settings, activities, and situations to get a sense of what you would be most happy with

- skills profile - asks students to self-evaluate their level on 22 different skills by considering specific scenarios where they would need to use these skills

To find the quizzes, log in to your unifrog account and scroll down until you find this window

Once you have completed the quizzes, you will be provided with tailored results. As part of your quiz results, you are directed towards the Careers and Subject library profiles in Unifrog, where you can carry on your research.