A - Level options for Engineering and Finance

I'm confused If i want to do investment banking or ai/aeronautical engineering in the future and I have to pick my gcse options at the start of the year. Please help i'm so confused

I'm confused If i want to do investment banking or ai/aeronautical engineering in the future and I have to pick my gcse options at the start of the year. Please help i'm so confused

I'm confused If i want to do investment banking or ai/aeronautical engineering in the future and I have to pick my gcse options at the start of the year. Please help i'm so confused

Multiple things:
Firstly, your GCSE choices aren't going to define a route either way at this point. The subjects necessary to pursue engineering are core subjects you're required to take by the national curriculum - sciences and maths.
Secondly, you can go into investment banking with any degree. Engineering, biology, music, classics, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, history, Egyptology - investment banks don't care what degree you do for standard front of house analyst roles. Going to a target university is what matters.
Therefore even when it gets to the point where you need to make subject decisions that may lead you towards one degree subject or another, it still won't rule out the possibility of investment banking. You could well do A-levels in physics, maths, and FM then do an aerospace engineering degree and then still end up working in investment banking.
All you need to do at this point is pick options you'll enjoy and think you can do well in, and aim to get the best grades you can at GCSE. In a couple years time when you're thinking about A-level options, then come back to this consideration

Hi @VDUSEN
Hope you’re well. It’s completely normal to feel unsure at this stage. Since both investment banking and engineering are pretty different, I’d say try to pick general subjects like Maths and Science to keep your options open. Definitely have a chat with your school’s careers adviser too as they’re there to help and can guide you based on your interests. You’ve got time to figure it all out, so don’t stress😊
Mercy
BCU Student Rep

Oh i'm so sorry i put gcse options I meant A-level options.

Well that is a different situation, but even so as I noted - you can take A-levels for an engineering degree and even do an engineering degree and still go into investment banking. So unless you for some reason don't want to do maths and physics and potentially FM (in which case, why do you want to do engineering at all?) then you could just do that an you're fine.

How exactly can you go into investment banking from engineering, especially if investment banking is highly competitive even for finance graduates

Did you read my original post?

maths, FM , physics , (preferably an essay subject, (econ))

You don't need an essay-based subject for either Engineering or Finance.
You do need Maths, and for Engineering, possibly also Physics depending on the Uni.