Can you guess how many subjects students will be sitting this exam period?

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Dumfries and Galloway council have released a long list of all the subjects 3,000 students across the region will be sitting at least one Higher Exam on.

The exams started with Philosophy on the 2nd of May and will end with Politics on the 2nd of June. The ‘most popular’ subjects are English and Mathematics.

  • accounting

  • administration and IT

  • art and design [design]

  • art and design [expressive]

  • biology

  • business

  • business management

  • care

  • chemistry

  • computing science

  • creative arts

  • design and manufacture

  • design and technology

  • drama

  • engineering science

  • English

  • English and communication

  • English for speakers of other languages

  • environmental science

  • fashion and textile technology

  • food health and wellbeing

  • French

  • geography

  • German

  • graphic communication

  • health and food technology

  • history

  • hospitality – practical cake craft

  • hospitality – practical cookery

  • human biology

  • information and communications technology

  • Italian

  • Latin

  • lifeskills mathematics

  • Mandarin [simplified]

  • mathematics

  • mathematics of mechanics

  • media

  • modern studies

  • music

  • music technology

  • music – portfolio

  • people and society

  • performance arts

  • philosophy

  • photography

  • physical education

  • physics

  • politics

  • practical craft skills

  • practical metalworking

  • practical woodworking

  • psychology

  • religious moral and philosophical studies

  • science

  • science in the environment

  • social subjects

  • sociology

  • Spanish