Was told to pick a career

Relax you don't have to have your life plan by 16/17. Most people change a few times. Only stuff like Medicine and Dentistry would you really know by GCSE's.

Foundation maths you can still get a C so concentrate on getting a C. Yes it will mean you most likely can't do maths but as you said Humanities is your strong point so focus on something there!

thanks man, but i would like to do something practical e.g medicine etc.

Then you need to get your grades up which isn't impossible

i guess so man, thanks, thing is i will have to buckle down badly, though even i think it sounds unrealistic

If you want to work in the medical field, you could look at other courses like optometry or radiography. You're still working in similar environments but there isn't the same demand for top grades at GCSE and A-level. I don't know of any of those courses that demand specific GCSE grades (some might require a B in GCSE maths though).

A lot of the medicine courses require A*s and As at GCSE. So you'd really need to work hard to pull your grades up and continue working hard through A-levels.

And I didn't know what to do
I'm now going into year 11 and I guess I always wanted to do something in medicine or something, but i'll be honest with you, i don't have strong grade, i'm a b- student at best, i don't motivate myself to do any form of good work or revise however it struck me that i really need to up my game in year 11, though that being said i might have to do foundation for maths, so please tell me honestly, do i even stand a chance

subjects that i am good at are humanity subjects like sociology and history though

This isn't meant to be offensive:

If you're not really good at science, then medicine probably isn't for you. If you prefer humanities then study them instead! If you're going to go to University, then you have years left until you need to pick a really specific career (unless it's medicine, in which case, go back to the top of this post).You have time to choose.

yeah yeah no offence taken man, but i dont know any good and decent looking careers i can get with humanity studies.

This isn't meant to be offensive:

If you're not really good at science, then medicine probably isn't for you. If you prefer humanities then study them instead! If you're going to go to University, then you have years left until you need to pick a really specific career (unless it's medicine, in which case, go back to the top of this post).You have time to choose.

Neither do I (other than law I suppose)...

The fact is though, that lots of people take humanity degrees, and they all end up getting some kind of job, so they must exist. At the start of Y11 I wanted to do medicine, now I want to do something more related to physics even though I'm not really aware of what jobs are available. I know that seems kinda dumb, but there is still time left to discover.

I suppose with medicine this is a problem to some degree - academic ability at a young age generally and in specific subjects. I believe this is often determined by a lot of factors outside the child's volition; such as socio-economic status and parental education.

Having said that, being mediocre at something doesn't mean that you can't go for it. I was pretty average at science (CCD physics, bio, and chem) and indeed everything else (but better at the humanities, BBC lang, history, and lit); but now I have a first class degree in science starting training to become a (clinical) cognitive neuroscientist or similar.

Point being... GCSE's don't really mean s#*t ... unless wanting to apply to oxbridge or go into medicine or perhaps law. Though, currently, both have access postgraduate (though may stop).

I suppose with medicine this is a problem to some degree - academic ability at a young age generally and in specific subjects. I believe this is often determined by a lot of factors outside the child's volition; such as socio-economic status and parental education.

Having said that, being mediocre at something doesn't mean that you can't go for it. I was pretty average at science (CCD physics, bio, and chem) and indeed everything else (but better at the humanities, BBC lang, history, and lit); but now I have a first class degree in science starting training to become a (clinical) cognitive neuroscientist or similar.

Point being... GCSE's don't really mean s#*t ... unless wanting to apply to oxbridge or go into medicine or perhaps law. Though, currently, both have access postgraduate (though may stop).

i wouldn't mind law, though you really need good gcses for it?

You either need to buck up and work harder or accept your weaknesses and just do things you're good at. I'm not a natural with science and maths either but I wanted to do medicine so I worked hard. You either want it or you don't. And there's nothing wrong with not wanting it.

i wouldn't mind law, though you really need good gcses for it?