Rank your A-levels in order of difficulty

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  1. Bax-man's Avatar
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    Re: Rank your A-levels in order of difficulty
    History
    Mathematics
    Philosophy
    Economics / Government and Politics / Law
  2. Rossshaw's Avatar
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    Re: Rank your A-levels in order of difficulty
    Biology
    Chemistry
    Psychology
  3. kcmsecnarf's Avatar
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    Re: Rank your A-levels in order of difficulty
    Hardest to easiest
    English Lang/lit
    History
    Psychology
  4. whimsicality's Avatar
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    Re: Rank your A-levels in order of difficulty
    I finished last year and it definitely changed in A2 but overall:

    History (narrowly because AS was tough having not done History since I was 12)
    English Lit/Lang
    Psychology
  5. lisali's Avatar
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    Re: Rank your A-levels in order of difficulty
    History
    Maths
    Economics
    English Lit/Lang
  6. whimsicality's Avatar
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    Re: Rank your A-levels in order of difficulty
    (Original post by kcmsecnarf)
    Hardest to easiest
    English Lang/lit
    History
    Psychology
    Almost snap
  7. ilovepolska's Avatar
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    Re: Rank your A-levels in order of difficulty
    History
    Psychology
    English Lit/Lang
  8. Marisa_Grace's Avatar
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    Re: Rank your A-levels in order of difficulty
    (Original post by .:Doctor:.)
    Just wondering how difficult people are finding their AS/A2 levels!
    Maths
    Latin (from A2 Level its difficulty has significantly increaed from AS Level)
    German
    Art
  9. Musether's Avatar
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    Re: Rank your A-levels in order of difficulty
    AS:

    English Literature (It was so easy, I just made it all up. I don't really know how I got an A, but meh)
    History (Despite losing my Russia textbook and never attending lessons, I managed to get an overall B)
    Law (unfortunately I did really badly in the June exam and only scored a weak B overall, despite getting an A in the January exam...)
    Citizenship (I never actually went to the lessons, it was so boring, but I got an A overall)


    A2:

    Law (so much to remember! But I am only 10 marks off an A)
    History (It's just ... I don't know. But I can get an A, apparently)
    English Literature (Easy, but at the same time, hard?)
    Citizenship (Easy... enough said)
  10. DeeDub's Avatar
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    Re: Rank your A-levels in order of difficulty
    Hardest first.

    Chem
    *
    Maths
    *
    Physics
    *
    *
    *
    *
    *
    *
    *
    *
    Geography
  11. kashim91's Avatar
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    Re: Rank your A-levels in order of difficulty
    Lets see this is quite close between physics and biology

    Biology
    Physics
    Chemistry
    Maths
  12. theappletree's Avatar
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    Re: Rank your A-levels in order of difficulty
    History
    English Lit
    Business
    Maths
    German

    Business, Maths and German were all kinda easy. Except my business teacher hardly spoke any English which made the subject really annoying
  13. IchiCC's Avatar
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    Re: Rank your A-levels in order of difficulty
    In terms of conceptual difficulty:

    1) Further Maths
    2) Physics
    3) Maths
    4) Economics

    In terms of time expenditure:

    1) Economics
    2) Physics and Further Maths
    4) Maths
  14. oddsox's Avatar
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    Re: Rank your A-levels in order of difficulty
    French Hardest
    Chemistry
    Biology
    Maths
  15. Robpattinsonxxx's Avatar
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    Re: Rank your A-levels in order of difficulty
    Physics(hardest)-->Maths-->Chemistry-->Biology(easiest)
  16. Lumen's Avatar
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    Re: Rank your A-levels in order of difficulty
    History: All the reading, memorising facts, endless essays, interpretation of sources.
    Philosophy: Abstract concepts so difficult to know what examiners are looking for in an answer.
    English Literature: My best subject, but definitely a step up from GCSE.
    Psychology: It's just a matter of learning the facts and case studies. Very straightforward.
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    Re: Rank your A-levels in order of difficulty
    Hardest to easiest:

    Philosophy
    History
    Spanish
    English Literature
  18. Larriant's Avatar
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    Re: Rank your A-levels in order of difficulty
    1) Chemistry
    2) Further Maths
    3) History
    4) Maths
    5) Economics
  19. sana92's Avatar
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    Re: Rank your A-levels in order of difficulty
    Maths
    Chemistry
    Biology
    Economics
    ICT
  20. Andy Ftw's Avatar
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    Re: Rank your A-levels in order of difficulty
    Maths
    Further Maths
    Physics

    :rolleyes:

    Easiest to hardest
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