A Levels were in 1968 for me. Maths, Further Maths and Physics. The usual "engineering" choices although in retrospect I would have been better served taking Chemistry instead of Further Maths. In those days we had no modules, no pick and choose, no course work included - you did the whole subject. e.g. statistics was not a separate subject or module. In Physics that year, our teacher decided there had been no questions on thermionics for some years so we did not cover much. Of course some came up in the exam. For some reason I was obsessed with the photo electric effect and spent many lunch times in the Physics lab messing about.
This all led me to a life in electronics and related subjects. Nobody told me I'd have been wealthier and better regarded if I'd used the sums to be an accountant. If asked I usually advise people not to go into professional engineering, but if they must then they should work for a small company or preferably abroad. Bitter - no I've got over that since I retired early 6 years ago and the trouble was I enjoyed my work too much to be worried about a trifling thing like salary. Typically I worked 30% extra hours each year in unpaid overtime.
I get miffed when people say that their nephew is doing an engineering degree. I always ask "civil, electronic, electrical, etc". Of course they mean mechy stuff.
Latin - that was compulsory in the first year at grammar school.