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  1. Aysena's Avatar
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    Re: A level choices and career hopes- care to share? ;)
    (Original post by hopingtobeadentist)
    Yeh even King's College; they've said applicants can take maths at as levels but only in one year, not in A2 as well ;P
    Ah right. My school don't offer Further Maths :L We can either do Single Maths plus either Mechanics or Stats or we can do Double Maths with Mech one year and Stats in A2. We're not allowed to do 5 A levels
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    (Original post by Aysena)
    We're not allowed to do 5 A levels
    my school only let us do 4 as well. I always thought that was the normal amount until people on here start talking about the fact they are doing 5+ A Levels...


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    Re: A level choices and career hopes- care to share? ;)
    (Original post by Aysena)
    Ah right. My school don't offer Further Maths :L We can either do Single Maths plus either Mechanics or Stats or we can do Double Maths with Mech one year and Stats in A2. We're not allowed to do 5 A levels
    Yeah, that's pretty fair as it would be extremely hard
    And plus that's fine with me because I'm not even going to take maths
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    Re: A level choices and career hopes- care to share? ;)
    (Original post by Aysena)
    I read in some prospectuses that Uni's consider Maths and Further Maths as one A level...
    That doesn't matter. You only need to do three A-levels for med school usually, so the fact that I am doing five which may be classed as four is irrelevant.

    Last edited by Aquar; 07-06-2012 at 12:37.
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    Re: A level choices and career hopes- care to share? ;)
    I am going to study English Literature, Theatre Studies, Psychology and Spanish!
    In an ideal world I'd love to write novels, but realistically, I'd like to be a teacher in English or work within a theatre company
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    I'm doing psychology, photography, English language and English literature, hoping to go into a journalism/photography based career
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    Re: A level choices and career hopes- care to share? ;)
    I hope to a law degree at uni, and then pursue a career as a barrister; so i''m gonna do:

    1)Maths (Stats)
    2)History
    3)English Literature
    4)Religious Studies

    :badger:
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    I took Biology, Chemistry, Psychology and English Language at AS, dropped Chemistry for various and complicated reasons to do equally with douchy teachers and me not getting my head in the game last year. I'm currently finishing up Biology, Psychology and English Language, I've got a conditional offer from Exeter to study Biology so long as I get ABB (which I'm having to make up from ADD last year, so working my arse off xD). Careers - ultimately I'm looking to gain the scientific qualifications and background that will allow me to apply to the ESA to become an astronaut.
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    For my future career hopes, i'll be the one to take over my dads agricultural business. Not bad for someone whos doing A2 Geography and Psychology (my only subjects).
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    Re: A level choices and career hopes- care to share? ;)
    (Original post by JLKeating)
    my school only let us do 4 as well. I always thought that was the normal amount until people on here start talking about the fact they are doing 5+ A Levels...


    This was posted from The Student Room's iPhone/iPad App
    yeah :P but then again we have to do Welsh Bacc which is also a qualification...so I guess I' kinda doing 5
  11. Aysena's Avatar
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    (Original post by tiana_tiara)
    I took Biology, Chemistry, Psychology and English Language at AS, dropped Chemistry for various and complicated reasons to do equally with douchy teachers and me not getting my head in the game last year. I'm currently finishing up Biology, Psychology and English Language, I've got a conditional offer from Exeter to study Biology so long as I get ABB (which I'm having to make up from ADD last year, so working my arse off xD). Careers - ultimately I'm looking to gain the scientific qualifications and background that will allow me to apply to the ESA to become an astronaut.
    Wow!! That's awesome. What's ESA?
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    (Original post by hopingtobeadentist)
    Yeah, that's pretty fair as it would be extremely hard
    And plus that's fine with me because I'm not even going to take maths
    Aww Maths is awesome!
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    french, english literature and geography i hope to go on then and do a degree in one of these subjects and then do my pgce for secondary teaching as i want to be a secondary teacher
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    Re: A level choices and career hopes- care to share? ;)
    Biology
    Chemistry
    Economics
    Maths
    (maybe further maths)

    For Medicine or Chemical Engineering
    If medicine then I would love to move on to Pediatrics
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    Re: A level choices and career hopes- care to share? ;)
    You're all so good at maths and science, makes me so jealous!

    Government and politics, English literature, Spanish and history. Hopefully a degree in law or history but not sure what I want to do after
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    Re: A level choices and career hopes- care to share? ;)
    (Original post by Aysena)
    Wow!! That's awesome. What's ESA?
    European Space Agency. Like NASA, but represents loads of smaller European countries. They collaborate with NASA and the Russian/Japanese space agencies to run missions, send astronauts to the International Space Station for research, etcetera.
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    Re: A level choices and career hopes- care to share? ;)
    (Original post by tiana_tiara)
    European Space Agency. Like NASA, but represents loads of smaller European countries. They collaborate with NASA and the Russian/Japanese space agencies to run missions, send astronauts to the International Space Station for research, etcetera.
    That's brilliant girl! So what unis are you thinking?
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    Re: A level choices and career hopes- care to share? ;)
    (Original post by Aysena)
    Aww Maths is awesome!
    Yeeehh it is but I'm not sure I would like it at college
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    Re: A level choices and career hopes- care to share? ;)
    I'm taking sociology, psychology and biology (only took three which i now regret) and i'm hoping to do children's nursing
    Last edited by Becca94; 07-06-2012 at 13:57.
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    I'm going to do Chemistry, Biology, History and Politics. Hopefully I can then get into Durham to study Biology and after my degree become a full time bin man.
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