The Current Year 13 Thread 2016-2017

Hi guys.

I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but I am a bit unsure about my AS/A Level choices.

So, I want to go into either Medicine (most likely) or Finance (Accountant, Actuary, Investment Banker etc.).

I got all A*s in my GCSEs (Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Maths, Geography, Spanish, French and Latin) except for English Language and English Literature, in which I got As.

So, for A Levels (well AS this year as soon as I start year 12), I have chosen 5 AS/A Levels:

Chemistry
Biology
Maths
Latin
Spanish

But I have been thinking that these may be a bit too much lately as I am seeing threads with people saying in the past to only take 4. The thing is, for Medicine, I need the Sciences and Maths, but I also really enjoy both languages so I don't know which to drop... is it worth doing all 5 subjects or will it just be too much work? And if I do 5 subjects, will I not get any free periods?

And finally, which language is more useful, Latin, French or Spanish for Medicine/Finance? Should I swap one to Further Maths?

Haha I know there's a lot of questions and I'm starting to really overthink the situation so I would be grateful if someone could help me out.. Thanks!


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You don't need to do maths for medicine although it is useful. And I'm not trying to be biased but I think spanish would be very useful. As a language I would say it's popular although french also but I would say spanish is easier. Swapping one out doesn't make things any easier and if you don't like further maths as much as the languages you won't do as well

I do suggest you do four for reals but just see how you cope and then decide if you can handle it

Hi guys.

I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but I am a bit unsure about my AS/A Level choices.

So, I want to go into either Medicine (most likely) or Finance (Accountant, Actuary, Investment Banker etc.).

I got all A*s in my GCSEs (Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Maths, Geography, Spanish, French and Latin) except for English Language and English Literature, in which I got As.

So, for A Levels (well AS this year as soon as I start year 12), I have chosen 5 AS/A Levels:

Chemistry
Biology
Maths
Latin
Spanish

But I have been thinking that these may be a bit too much lately as I am seeing threads with people saying in the past to only take 4. The thing is, for Medicine, I need the Sciences and Maths, but I also really enjoy both languages so I don't know which to drop... is it worth doing all 5 subjects or will it just be too much work? And if I do 5 subjects, will I not get any free periods?

And finally, which language is more useful, Latin, French or Spanish for Medicine/Finance? Should I swap one to Further Maths?

Haha I know there's a lot of questions and I'm starting to really overthink the situation so I would be grateful if someone could help me out.. Thanks!

Anyone doing an EPQ this year? Completing one in my gap year, looking to find something anthropological.
Interested to see what others may be doing

Anyone doing an EPQ this year? Completing one in my gap year, looking to find something anthropological.
Interested to see what others may be doing


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5 AS levels is a lot of work, but you could always just try it out and see how it goes, then drop one if you want to (presuming your school lets you do that). You will get frees, just not as many as your friends, and frees are pretty much essential to keeping on top of your workload. If you think you can manage with doing a lot of your homework at home then go ahead with 5.

Languages for medicine... Aren't a lot of the medical terms based on Latin? Like I only know this from reading interviews with Casualty actors so it's not very reliable but it might make things easier to remember for you if you do Latin. That being said, Latin is a dead language. So it really depends on whether you want a language you can use to talk to people and stuff or a language that's more of a building block, if that makes sense.

Good luck this year by the way, regardless of what you choose to do




Yeah I'm going to do one on the Japanese national anthem and whether it accurately reflects the national identity of the Japanese people

I start Year 13 this week!!! Crazy

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Do you start tomorrow?
I start on Tuesday, and I sort of can't wait to start, but I'm sort of dreading it

Do you start tomorrow?
I start on Tuesday, and I sort of can't wait to start, but I'm sort of dreading it

I start on Thursday, but I have to go to school on Wednesday to pick up my timetable and get important information! And same,I'm dreading it as its our last year of school!
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