[laura94]

Do NOT let these people influence you with silly arguments about your choices being 'risky'. All of the subjects you have listed are respected. Heck, I did Philosophy, Maths and DRAMA and still managed an interview at CAMBRIDGE!
I let people influence my choices when I was your age and ended up taking english lit and hated it. It's a big regret.
Do what you want to do, those choices sound good to me! They're actually the exact a-levels I would choose if I could go back and pick again!

[tswuttke]

Good choices, I did both history and economics this year, found them enjoyable but be prepared to do a lot of extra reading for history if you want a good grade. I did R.E (Philosophy of Ethics) last year along side my GCSE's and it was okay but perhaps you might want to consider just taking Philosophy?

[thatgirlbecky]

The subjects you've suggested are very good OP, have you considered doing French, as you're predicted such a high grade? Doing a language is very respected but then so is RS so do what you enjoy!

Do you know what you want to do as a career/at uni?

[The Polymath]

(Original post by laura94)
Do NOT let these people influence you with silly arguments about your choices being 'risky'. All of the subjects you have listed are respected. Heck, I did Philosophy, Maths and DRAMA and still managed an interview at CAMBRIDGE!
I let people influence my choices when I was your age and ended up taking english lit and hated it. It's a big regret.
Do what you want to do, those choices sound good to me! They're actually the exact a-levels I would choose if I could go back and pick again!

The fact that you capitalised the word "Drama" shows how weak an A-level it is. As for an interview, 90%+ get one. People influencing your choices is important as long as it's the right people who know more than you. Taking weak (or the wrong) A-levels will ruin your life, as many people discover in sixth form when they decide on a course/uni but realise they don't have the A-levels for it.

[soempty]

If you want to do economics degree i would rather take FM than RE, because you already have your essay based subject, and the second one won't strengthen your application, and further maths will, as it is one of the most respected (by univercities) a levels.
I do Maths, FM, Economics and History and completly happy about my choices. Arguably you would do better in your Maths a-level if you do FM, since you will spend more time and effort on it.

[Negaduck]

(Original post by Junaid96)
Edit: Oh, and just for the record, Economics is the easiest subject I've ever taken. Everytime I see it on my timetable I breathe a sigh of relief at the thought of dossing at the back of a lecture theatre :

Really? I hate Economics (the subject) but just did it because the teacher is lazy and doesn't give us out any homework and we barely do any work in class. I find the actual exams to be much harder than my other subjects (Maths and Further Maths), maybe I just have a Mathsy brain, can't write essays and begin to doze off every time I catch of site of my Economics textbook. I don't think i've ever got an Economics paper finished, not enough time to write in the exams! Thank god i've just done my last ever Economics exam last Friday. Fingers crossed I scraped an A with by waffling for 2 hours and 10 pages.

[pixxie]

French is also a good choice to pick because it's a skills-based subject so when you have your January exams etc then you can concentrate more on your other subjects.

Economics is brilliant it will probably help you doing History & Maths alongside as well, because it's both maths-based, and also you have to be very analytical and evaluative and I don't do history A level, but at GCSE there was a lot of evaluating sources etc.

^ thats not really a reason to pick it I know, but I sort of wish I'd done another essay-based subject, because I seem to have got out of the habit of being able to write well so can sometimes struggle doing the end 18 mark questions.

Just a couple of things to think about, but definitely go for the subjects you think you'll enjoy more.

Good luck with your A levels anyway

(I do Maths, F. Maths, French & Economics btw)

[JamezA60]

Hopefully i'll get 4A*s 6 A's and 2 B's in my final exams:

I'm taking:
Maths
Economics
History
Product Design
Critical thinking

if anyone else is doing similar to me feel free to DM me, it's interesting to see what people are thinking about next year!

[A193]

(Original post by thatgirlbecky)
The subjects you've suggested are very good OP, have you considered doing French, as you're predicted such a high grade? Doing a language is very respected but then so is RS so do what you enjoy!

Do you know what you want to do as a career/at uni?

At the start i had chosen french, but since i was the only person in my school who chose it, it has been discontinuted, so i had to settle for another subject, so i chose re

[laura94]

(Original post by Junaid96)
The fact that you capitalised the word "Drama" shows how weak an A-level it is. As for an interview, 90%+ get one. People influencing your choices is important as long as it's the right people who know more than you. Taking weak (or the wrong) A-levels will ruin your life, as many people discover in sixth form when they decide on a course/uni but realise they don't have the A-levels for it.

Yes that was why I was pointing it out... When I applied my predicted grades were actually below the entry requirements so I still think it's quite good that I got one, and it didn't hold me back. Yes taking weak/wrong a-levels can ruin your life, but since the OP isn't taking weak a-levels, people picking on one that is ever so slightly less respected is ridiculous.

[Squig]

In my opinion it really doesn't matter what you do at a-level, so long as you enjoy it, and you do it well.
So long as you have those boxes ticked, then good luck


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[The Polymath]

(Original post by Squig)
In my opinion it really doesn't matter what you do at a-level, so long as you enjoy it, and you do it well.
So long as you have those boxes ticked, then good luck


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Well, no, it really does matter. Who isn't going to enjoy dossy subjects like Film Studies? But then, who's going to get a place at uni after doing it?

[Squig]

(Original post by Junaid96)
Well, no, it really does matter. Who isn't going to enjoy dossy subjects like Film Studies? But then, who's going to get a place at uni after doing it?

To be honest, unless your applying to Oxbridge to study something like medicine, it doesn't matter what subject you study at a-level - really. Universities mostly don't like subjects such as 'general studies' or similar. A subject like 'film studies' is perfectly valid - and quite necessary if one plans to go to university to study some form of media.

At the end of the day, once you hit university most of what you learnt at a-level is revamped to a much higher level. So long as you do a subject well at a-level you're showing universities that you have potential, and willingness to further yourself.

There is absolutely no point in going for less "dossy" subjects if you have no interest in them, and as a result your grades suffer. In your personal statement, you're going to have to show some passion for what you're studying, and what you hope to study, and it would be pretty hard to make something like that up - particularly of you apply to a university where you have to attend an interview.




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[The Polymath]

(Original post by Squig)
To be honest, unless your applying to Oxbridge to study something like medicine, it doesn't matter what subject you study at a-level - really. Universities mostly don't like subjects such as 'general studies' or similar. A subject like 'film studies' is perfectly valid - and quite necessary if one plans to go to university to study some form of media.

At the end of the day, once you hit university most of what you learnt at a-level is revamped to a much higher level. So long as you do a subject well at a-level you're showing universities that you have potential, and willingness to further yourself.

There is absolutely no point in going for less "dossy" subjects if you have no interest in them, and as a result your grades suffer. In your personal statement, you're going to have to show some passion for what you're studying, and what you hope to study, and it would be pretty hard to make something like that up - particularly of you apply to a university where you have to attend an interview.




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http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=604

Scroll down to the list.

[Squig]

(Original post by Junaid96)
http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=604

Scroll down to the list.

I also said "unless you're applying to oxbridge."

[The Polymath]

(Original post by Squig)
I also said "unless you're applying to oxbridge."

All of the top 10-20 universities will be the same. No one will take you seriously with an A-level in Film Studies.

[Squig]

(Original post by Junaid96)
All of the top 10-20 universities will be the same. No one will take you seriously with an A-level in Film Studies.

Well from my experience and the experience of others i know in my year who all applied to university last year, the only reason anyone was rejected from top universities was either because they were studying a subject like 'general studies' or because they're predicted grades didn't weren't too great, or they failed the real deal.

With this in mind, its just incorrect for you to just brush off subject you deem to be a 'doss'.


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