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AS Level: Geography vs Chemistry

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Which A level would you recommend?

Which would you choose/recommend and why?

What's the course content like and do you find it interesting/enjoyable?

What are they like compared to GCSE?

My other subjects will be Physics, Maths and Further Maths.
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Original post by bobbricks
Which would you choose/recommend and why?

What's the course content like and do you find it interesting/enjoyable?

What are they like compared to GCSE?

My other subjects will be Physics, Maths and Further Maths.


I don't do geography A-level, but I took it at GCSE, and I'm doing chemistry AS at the moment. I always found geography pretty boring, and from what people are saying in my year, there are loads of case studies they need to know, and they have a really big workload for it! I like chemistry - I find it interesting and find all the mechanisms and stuff really quite fun. It's a lot more about being able to understand it and apply your knowledge as opposed to memorisation. But it is a hell of a lot harder than it was at GCSE - especially unit 2. I got an A* at GCSE and found it pretty straightforward, but tbh it feels like a completely different subject at A-level! But in a good way I guess because I definitely want to take it onto A2. :smile:

So yeah, hope that helped a little bit.
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I take both and love them both :biggrin:

Geography is my smallest work load!!
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I do A2 Geography but only did Chemistry to GCSE. From my own experience and what i've heard from others who have studied both at AS, Chemistry is probably the more respected A level but Geography probably has the easiER (not easy!) content and less workload. With your other subjects, I think you should take serious consideration to a subject other than Chemistry simply down to how difficult it is, even at AS.

Hope this helps :smile:
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