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Judging from your spelling, you’re in the UK (or possibly Australia or the like). Not sure I can offer advice relevant in that context.
In the US it’s quite straightforward (and common) to study both physics and math for the first two years of school and not decide which to get a degree in until later.
Note that with any of these subjects it’s possible to find extremely difficult problems, or trivial problems. If something is hard for you it’s probably hard for other people too. Hard problems sometimes need an hour, or 5 hours, or a few days, or a month (or more) to figure out a solution to. Don’t give up if an answer isn’t immediately obvious; that doesn’t mean you’re stupid.
P.S. You might enjoy this book I just bought a copy of, Professor Povey's Perplexing Problems – Even just the autobiographical sketch at the beginning is very amusing (one unfortunate thing: the solutions are written directly after the problem statements, so you have to spend some effort to not spoil yourself).
Or if you want some more physics problems to work, here are some Russian books,
https://archive.org/details/SelectedProblemsInPhysics-ShaskolskayaAndEltsin
https://archive.org/details/IrodovProblemsInGeneralPhysics
https://archive.org/details/ZubovShalnovProblemsInPhysicsMir
Professor Povey's perplexing problems is a great book with all these fun physics or math questions, its mostly physics so I didn't find much use out of it if my friend wasn't with me, but the problems are great.