Have you done these AS/A Level subjects?

I'm doing Biology & Chemistry.

& Considering:
-Psychology
-Archaeology
-Environmental Studies
-French

Have you taken any of these and could vouch for/against them? I have my enrolment tomorrow and need to decide on 4 subjects for AS!

Please...If you have ANY knowledge on the subjects and can help in any way then reply! Thankyou!

I do French and love it but then I'm a huge fan of languages! I don't know anything about Archaeology or Environmental Studies, but my friend did Psychology and found there was loads to learn, which is fine if you're really really interested in it, but less so if you're not. How did you do in French at GCSE? I'd say all your subject possibilities would go well with Biology and chemistry, but French is probably the most 'solid' out of the four others you're contemplating, in regard to how highly the top universities consider particular subjects. Good luck with whatever you choose

I did Psychology A-level with the Edexcel board.

I honestly did love it but it was a lot more essay and evaluation based than I originally thought. It may be different for different boards but we had to learn quite a few studies and theories and be able to describe and evaluate them as well as apply them to senarios, it was a lot more evaluation and description than application though. It depends what you want really, if you're comfortable learning facts and writing essays then you'll probably do pretty well in it, it depends what you're expecting from the subject and what your strengths are.

I actually got an A* , but i feel like i hardly know anything! People my age have said 'don't do it, you'll regret it', but then people have said that about every subject. My two sciences are to keep my options wide, because with those two, i can still pretty much do anything.

It's so hard to decide without trialling them though :/

I just did some research and the Psychology course i'd be doing is OCR. Nothing on French though :/

I do OCR Psychology. It is terrible. The course is absolutely shocking. I'm afraid i'd completely advise against doing it. For AS you basically have 1 exam on how to conduct a study, and then an exam on core studies. And by core studies, you just memorise facts from 15 different psychological studies and how to apply validity/reliability/etc to such studies over and over and over again. Before I started AS I had a huge passion for psychology and would enjoy reading psychology-related books years above my level, but this course completely put me off and by the end i just didn't bother learning it or revising. It was so ridiculously boring (however this is just OCR).
Although, the A2 level course does seem a looooot more interesting, but AS was a drag.

French, however, is amazing. I may not do it but I look over all the work my friends do in French and read their work for them to check for errors etc. I've even looked at past papers and such as. I would seriously advise taking French if you love the language (though be prepared for a considerable jump either from GCSE-AS or from AS-A2) and are prepared to put in the effort

Ahh god! I'm so confused now! I am quite like you (always wanted to do psychology, but from that lady explaining and droning on i've started to reconsider!)
French seems good at AS...But dreadful at A2!
'Four broad topics areas are studied at AS: media, popular culture, modern lifestyles and family and relationships. Each of these is examined in some depth so that students may find themselves discussing the dangers of the internet, the impact of an advertising ban on French state television channels and the use of mobile phones by young people, all under the banner of media.'

'At A2 the format is similar in that three topics are studied in depth. These are: the environment, multicultural society and social issues. New to the A2 year is an in-depth study of two cultural topics, which may mean the study of a novel, play,architect, film director or period of 20th century history. A2
students are currently studying Voltaire’s Candide, a famous eighteenth century tale combining adventure and philosophy and the buildings of Jules Mansart, architect to Louis XIV.'

Yeah, i'm not going to lie, the AS part is just terrible and can barely be considered psychology
Could you take it for AS and then drop it for A2? If not, you never know, you might enjoy it. You're likely to get a choice at A2 of something that you'd particularly want to study and therefore would probably enjoy it more? Although, i have heard of people having to push their way through works of Voltaire... (though i personally love Voltaire ). If you think the AS would be good i'd advise picking it up, and then as the year goes on you may see A2 as more appealing than you first though!
Ooh, and I see your location is also Devon? Good choice!

Haha yes, mid/south devon.

It's so gutting that the college chose to do the worst exam board for psychology :/
I just can't decide!
I feel like i'm gonna get half way through...Hate everything, and just drop out!

Ahh i'm North

Yeah Ooh gawd, i'm sure you won't drop out, well, if you're still considering psychology (mine was probably a worse experience because i had an absolutely terrible teacher and our lessons were from 3:30pm - 6pm after school!!) then you can look here if you want to take a peek at all the studies which you'd be covering