GCE AL Arts subjects in details: Exam and Subjects Guide

GCE AL Arts subjects have big list when you compare other subjects in commerce, bio science, physical science and technology stream. Advanced level Arts stream is most popular area as many students enroll. Also, A Level Arts stream has approximately sixty subjects. Those subjects can categorized into four different areas as follows:

  • Languages
  • Religious and Civilization
  • Social Sciences/ Applied Social studies 
  • Aesthetics
GCE AL Arts subjects in details

Arts subjects and categories 

Here is AL Arts subjects list with categories.

Category

Subjects

Languages

National languages:

  • Sinhala
  • Tamil
  • English

Classical languages:

  • Arabic
  • Pali
  • Sanskrit

Foreign languages:

  • Chinese
  • French
  • Hindi
  • Japanese
  • Malay
  • Russian

Religious and Civilization

Buddhism / Buddhist Civilization

Christianity / Christian Culture

Hinduism / Hindu Civilization

Islam / Islam Civilization

Greek & Roman Civilization

Social Science

Economics

Geography

History (Sri Lanka / India / Western / Word)

Home Economics

Political Sciences

Logic and Scientific method

Accounting / Business Statistics

Agriculture / mathematics

Communication and Mass media

Information and Communication Technology

Aesthetics

Art

Dancing (Sri Lankan / Indian)

Music (Oriental Music / Carnatic / Western)

Drama and Theatre


However, you can also select three subjects from streams (Commerce, Biological Science, Physical Science and Technology) as an Art student for GCE Advanced Level examination, and it called subject combinations.