Most difficult A-levels? June 2012

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  • View Poll Results: Most difficult, yet rewarding A-level?
    English Literature
    7 9.59%
    Economics
    4 5.48%
    Maths
    14 19.18%
    Further Maths
    21 28.77%
    Government and Politics
    3 4.11%
    Chemistry
    22 30.14%
    Physics
    26 35.62%
    Biology
    17 23.29%
    History
    10 13.70%
    ICT/Computing
    1 1.37%
    P.E
    1 1.37%
    Law
    0 0%
    Geography
    2 2.74%
    English Language
    0 0%
    Phycology
    4 5.48%
    If theres another one/ msg me to post
    2 2.74%

  1. theking1's Avatar
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    Most difficult A-levels? June 2012
    Poll #2 - More subjects
    http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/show....php?t=2026640



    In terms of:

    How Difficult the subject is

    The Workload of the subject

    The Most Rewarding subject (In terms of respect and skills gained)
    /Insert notation

    Last edited by theking1; 09-06-2012 at 19:06.
  2. Sarabande's Avatar
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    Re: Most difficult A-levels? June 2012
    I found biology the hardest as they can take a sentence in the book and turn it into a 5 mark question. You need to know the textbook inside out, sideways and upside down
  3. theking1's Avatar
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    Re: Most difficult A-levels? June 2012
    Nice^
    Bump.
  4. happyhappyday's Avatar
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    Among the 4 subjects I've taken, I think ECoN is hardest.
    Reason's simple: you think it's complicated and practical with updated news and events, but it just requires you to memorise staff to get marks。。。


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  5. britchick's Avatar
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    Re: Most difficult A-levels? June 2012
    Psychology is so difficult no one can ever even spell it right
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    Re: Most difficult A-levels? June 2012
    The misspelling of Psychology hurt my chest.

    Where's Philosophy and Ethics?
  7. theking1's Avatar
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    Re: Most difficult A-levels? June 2012
    (Original post by britchick)
    Psychology is so difficult no one can ever even spell it right
    Haha I realised before. I apologize. Creating threads at 3am is incredibly daunting=p
  8. Company Commissar's Avatar
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    Re: Most difficult A-levels? June 2012
    chemistry by faaaaar
  9. Fuzzy12345's Avatar
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    Re: Most difficult A-levels? June 2012
    Where are languages
  10. Tommo96's Avatar
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    Re: Most difficult A-levels? June 2012
    Geography?
  11. swiftylol's Avatar
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    Re: Most difficult A-levels? June 2012
    Philosophy, it was tedious but worth it in the end.
  12. M4LLY's Avatar
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    Maths and Physics without a doubt
  13. LookIt'sPete's Avatar
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    Re: Most difficult A-levels? June 2012
    Physics is relatively easy compared to further maths, you should see some of the questions on the FP2 paper.
  14. Leeshur's Avatar
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    Re: Most difficult A-levels? June 2012
    Biology for me. It's memorising the whole text book, and when you get those nasty stretch and challenge questions, the answers they're usually looking for aren't even that bloody sophisticated! You try to get really technical and then it turns out that you don't have to! D:
  15. Namige's Avatar
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    Re: Most difficult A-levels? June 2012
    Physics is hardest, maths is the most rewarding imo.
  16. brittanna's Avatar
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    Re: Most difficult A-levels? June 2012
    You forgot to put general studies up there!
  17. theking1's Avatar
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    Re: Most difficult A-levels? June 2012
    (Original post by brittanna)
    You forgot to put general studies up there!
    It's on the second page>follow link.
  18. CintiaMarina's Avatar
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    Personally?
    History -
    Theres too much to learn under 9months :/
    Dropped it at A2

    This was posted from The Student Room's Android App on my ST18i
  19. ECONMATHSMATHSMATH's Avatar
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    Re: Most difficult A-levels? June 2012
    Further Maths is hard as **** if you are not an A star student of maths, especially at A2 levels. FP2(I just revised for 5 hours and went straight to the exam, getting like 75%) and FP3(tough) and M3(hard as **** - hated mechanics to death)
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