S6 Subject choices -- crashing highers

what do you want to study at university?

I was generally thinking of doing English literature (or something along that line, like English language).


I guess what I'm really asking is if crashing two highers is advisable.

I would go with the 3 Advanced Highers definitely. They'll be more useful for if you're going to an English uni, and a lot of people do struggle with Crash Highers as Highers do demand a lot of prior knowledge really.

But if you find yourself going off Geography and want to go for the 2 Highers, I'd advise doing a stronger higher than Business Management. Crash Higher Economics would be a very good idea!

i wouldnt recommend 3 AH, unless youre a brainbox, and no offense intended, but the people with 5As dropped AH cos they didnt want to do them anymore. they are ALOT of work. EDIT: UNLESS YOURE GOING TO ENGLAND OR 2ND YEAR HERE.


do the subject your doing at uni as an AH.
do a fun subject and interesting subjects.

AH english is UBER hard, and ALOT of work alot of essays and writing (MUCH MORE THAN THIS YEAR), only those (in my school) who are doing it are doing it as a degree!





physics would be hard without chemistry imo.

business is boring, but easy to do if you just learn facts.




[[ i do AH biology and higher physics if you want to know anything about it )

I heard that Advanced higher is more about creative writeing elements and a folio, compared to the most painful subject ever higher, - if your higher teacher thinks you can do better you can bet that it's good advice!

I wouldn't worry about the grades unless you plan for university, I've found that I get away with just putting e.g

Higher maths
Higher english
Higher physics

on my CV, without even mentioning the grades I aquired.

AH biology is also a slightly different course, (congrats on your A)

I really wouldn't recommend crashing 2 Highers and doing 2 AHs at the same time. The workload in Advanced Higher is a big step up and crashing anything is difficult.

Are you thinking of staying in Scotland for uni or do you want to go to England/Wales? If you want to stay here, you'll most likely get unconditionals based on you Highers and they won't really mind what you're doing in 6th year (as long as you're doing something). In the rest of the UK it's a different story.

My choice sheet for next year needs to be in for tomorrow, and I've been looking over some subjects.

For my prelims, I got:
Maths C
English C
Geography B
Computing A
Biology A

(Yeah I know my English and Maths grades aren't too great... but I was predicted an A in both of them subjects, which sucks lol)

We have to take a minimum of 4 subjects (3 if all of them are Advanced Highers)...

I was thinking of doing AH Biology & English (I know I got a C, my English teacher still recommended I do AH, because she knows I can do better... was an off day, I guess). I was also thinking I might do AH Geography as well.

My other option would be to do AH Biology, English and crashing two other highers, because my school doesn't do AH Computing... I was thinking about crashing higher business management and physics but crashing two advanced highers is probably a bit hard... what do you all think? Should I crash some highers or just go with 3 AH subjects?

(Sorry for the long-ish post)

I am currently in 5th year and also have to choose my subjects for 6th year. At the moment I am considering doing an accounting/economics degree after 6th year. The columns aren't great for me and this is what I've decided to choose:
AH MAths
Higher Philosophy
Higher Information systems
Higher Physcology

Philosophy and Physcology have just been taken to fill up my time table really as the school insist we do 4 subjects. Do you think this would be a good combination considering my the course I want to do after leaving school. P.S this year I am doing English,Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Business management (all highers, predicted 4 As and a B in English)

Have you guys considered talking to your head of year? My school has the exact same policy about four subjects or three AHs but a 6th year told me that (in our school at least) if you were a reasonably good student, if you went down and talked to someone then they would let you take less, that the policy was essentially just to stop people who were gonna treat it like a skive. If you convince them that you're planning to work hard they might let you.