5 AS levels

i just started college and chose to do 5 AS's in Maths, Further Maths, Chemistry, Physics and Computing. is that too much? im more of a relaxed student but i do get good grades if i try. i dont want to be overloaded with work. will this be too much? and i feel very tired after only 2 weeks in college. advice??

i just started college and chose to do 5 AS's in Maths, Further Maths, Chemistry, Physics and Computing. is that too much? im more of a relaxed student but i do get good grades if i try. i dont want to be overloaded with work. will this be too much? and i feel very tired after only 2 weeks in college. advice??

I did the same but with Biology instead of computing. You'll get through AS fine enough, even with an average amount of work. However, I advise you not to continue doing 5 at A2, unless you are prepared to do massive amounts of revision. I made the mistake of doing 5 and my grades took a hit because of it. Still got into medicine though

i just started college and chose to do 5 AS's in Maths, Further Maths, Chemistry, Physics and Computing. is that too much? im more of a relaxed student but i do get good grades if i try. i dont want to be overloaded with work. will this be too much? and i feel very tired after only 2 weeks in college. advice??

I did 7 and came out with 7As (6 of them being over 90%) so it is definitely very doable. You do have to put in the work outside of lessons though, simply because there is so much to keep up with.

I did the same as many of the above, all the same as you but with biology instead of computing. With trying to hold up a part time job, get adaqueate work experience (I applied for Vet Med) and added pressure of just generally everythng else I found it too much :\
I took 4 to Alevel (and did an EPQ) and survived ok, but remember it's ok to start with 5 and decidie you want to drop one if it's too much - thats where I went wrong - I was too stubborn to give up f maths and it affected the rest of my results.
But if you have the stamia, and the motivation (trust me you need a frickin' lot of it!!!) then go for it! I know people who took 5 to alevel and got really good grades so it is do-able.
Depends on who you are, but honestly, another thing if it is too much - is that most uni's don't look overly at your AS' but want Alevels - and most want only 3 (yes everyone says it - but its true - even oxbridge only look at 3) so if it'll affect your grades because it's too much, drop the one you don't like/are finding hardest to be motivated for

On another note; welcome to two years of pain & misery ;P I hope it pays off for you

I did 7 and came out with 7As (6 of them being over 90%) so it is definitely very doable. You do have to put in the work outside of lessons though, simply because there is so much to keep up with.

Wow congradulations. Im just curious, how many lessons per week did you have of each subject?

But why would you do 7??! Or indeed even five?? Some one I know did 5 an came out with CDDDD

i just started college and chose to do 5 AS's in Maths, Further Maths, Chemistry, Physics and Computing. is that too much? im more of a relaxed student but i do get good grades if i try. i dont want to be overloaded with work. will this be too much? and i feel very tired after only 2 weeks in college. advice??

It sounds like you already know the answer ...

If you are prepared to work pretty hard then the answer is easy, drop Computing.

There is not a single course that the inclusion of computing will give you any kind of advantage for.

solved!!

• A-levels: A*AA
The A* must be obtained in Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics or Computing.

Technically wrong. But I get what you mean

http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate_courses/courses/computer_science/computer_science__1.html

thanks everyone for the advice. so i might consider dropping computing. but i was wondering do uni's see maths seperate from f.maths?? because if im dropping computing then im doing 3 SUBJECTS if you get what im saying

Erm, no, quite correct.

Let me Explain ....
The OP is doing
Maths, Further Maths, Chemistry, Physics and Computing
I said drop computing, well by my reckoning that leaves him with
Maths, Further Maths, Chemistry, Physics .

Do I need to explain further??