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Course choice columns disaster!

Right, at the moment i am doing Higher Maths, History, French, English Biology, and with a good enough work ethic i should be able to get around AABBB respectively.:cool: I want to do Law & Accountancy at Edinburgh, and i know that Law there is very competitive, so i wanted to do Adv Applied Maths, Adv History, Higher Accounts and crash Intermediate/Higher Spanish.

However, the <insert insult here> who devised the columns decided to put History, Accounts and Spanish all in the same column! :eek: This leaves me with not only me having to choose 1 of the 3, but having to take 2 subjects i don't want to take! :mad:

Spanish is the only subject i was really looking forward to taking + it's another language, History would be very useful for essay skills etc, and Accounts would obviously be useful for the uni course. :confused:

Any help would be much appreciated, as i'm confused.com.
matthew93
Right, at the moment i am doing Higher Maths, History, French, English Biology, and with a good enough work ethic i should be able to get around AABBB respectively.:cool: I want to do Law & Accountancy at Edinburgh, and i know that Law there is very competitive, so i wanted to do Adv Applied Maths, Adv History, Higher Accounts and crash Intermediate/Higher Spanish.

However, the <insert insult here> who devised the columns decided to put History, Accounts and Spanish all in the same column! :eek: This leaves me with not only me having to choose 1 of the 3, but having to take 2 subjects i don't want to take! :mad:

Spanish is the only subject i was really looking forward to taking + it's another language, History would be very useful for essay skills etc, and Accounts would obviously be useful for the uni course. :confused:

Any help would be much appreciated, as i'm confused.com.

You can do adv history on your own i.e teachers give resources and you all meet up a few times a year for more lecture type teaching. A few people in my school did it this year. This leaves you with accounting or spanish. I would do accounting, with my cynical hat on I would say that you will already get 'points' for a language with the higher french.
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TooSexyForMyStethoscope
You can do adv history on your own i.e teachers give resources and you all meet up a few times a year for more lecture type teaching. A few people in my school did it this year. This leaves you with accounting or spanish. I would do accounting, with my cynical hat on I would say that you will already get 'points' for a language with the higher french.


I never thought of that, do you know how people are coping doing Advanced History in free periods? :smile:
Yeah i know that taking Accounting would make more sense, as i should be able to get a B in French which would get some language brownie points :p:
matthew93
I never thought of that, do you know how people are coping doing Advanced History in free periods? :smile:
Yeah i know that taking Accounting would make more sense, as i should be able to get a B in French which would get some language brownie points :p:

I think that they are doing ok, but it is a lot of work. Most people do it at home rather than frees
Reply 4
get your parents to phone up and complain to the school. threaten to move schools etc. this sometimes helps. a girl wanted to do AH french at my school but wasnt allowed then her parents phoned and now shes allowed to teach herself it i think
Can you ask Edinburgh what they think? Although Edinburgh accept Accounts, I'm not sure it's necessary - first year Accountancy assumes you know nothing and starts from the beginning anyway. In which case History (for the law essay aspect) or Spanish (personal interest) might be better choices.

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