It depends what you want to go to university to study and as to which institution. Many universities allow you to choose modules outside of your courses, so there's no need to do any of them at A-Level unless you are particularly passionate about them.
If you are looking for a job in media or journalism, please AVOID media studies unless the course has a significant vocational element to it and can provide you with contacts in the field that you need.
For journalism, it's best to find a specialist subject you are interested in, do that to degree level and then do a conversion course. (Any budding environment correspondents out there are best advised to do a geography degree to learn about the subject they will be reporting on.)
Unless your heart is set on either a science/humanities/art/drama route, you are best advised to pick a group of subjects that can complement each other yet provide you with a wide-enough breadth of skills to give you the choice come university. Geography-Economics-Maths is always a strong one because it teaches you both how to write essays and how to interpret data. WHat you learn in maths can be really handy for Geography and Economics. History and English, Law and Politics, Chemistry and Physics are good ones too.
Pick the subjects that you enjoy or think you'll enjoy. And also if you're planning on going to uni pick the ones which will be best for what you want to study. Do you prefer science or arts?
Geography-Economics-Maths is always a strong one because it teaches you both how to write essays and how to interpret data. WHat you learn in maths can be really handy for Geography and Economics. History and English, Law and Politics, Chemistry and Physics are good ones too.
That's good to hear. Purely because I enjoy them and are good at them I have chosen Maths, Economics and Geography. Do you have any recommendations for a fourth subject? Any advise would be great.
So someone with Maths, Further Maths, Additional Further Maths and Physics (not be by the way ) is worse off than someone with Maths, Physics, French and English Lit? I think not...
Definitely not Biology. Avoid doing that unless you're one of those people that enjoys that kinda stuff. Go with Further Maths, because it'd be very fun, Physics cause it's easy and highly respected, Chemistry (it's moderately difficult but very highly respected and gives you a lot of options), and do something daring like Economics or Philosophy, etc.
I think this is stupid because everyone is going to say something different. Do the subjects that you are particularly interested in and don't do subjects that you know you won't like but only did those subjects because everybody else said it was good.
Me and the calcium guy have got a pretty handy set of subjects. Maths and Further Maths with a language in my case German, an arts subject Economics and a science both of us having Chemistry . If you want to do an Arts course at university do arts subjects at a-level. If you want to do a science course at university do science subjects.
That's some pretty good advice Mathemagician... Which ones of the Arts/ Languages/ Sciences are you doing for AS or full A2 (or are all for A2?)
I've just finished my GCSEs lol. If I get all As then I will carry them all to A2 because I really liked those subjects at GCSE and have considered taking all of them alongside Maths at uni but have come to a decision of just maths at uni. I obviously can't do chemistry with maths so i considered it as a subject on its own.