[olivialawson]

I'm taking English Lit, Law, Psychology and History.

At GCSE I should get;

English Lit - A/A*
History - A*

I don't know whether this is a good choice as I want to study at a Russell Group University.

I'd like to study English Lit, History or Law at Uni so I don't know what to do and whether or not to take English Lit, Law, History and Economics, rather than Psychology?

Is Economics ridiculously dull and very mathematical? I need 3 A's at A level. (I have a B in maths GCSE).
HELP ME PLEASE

[fayled]

My only advice is,

just do what you enjoy

[Tortious]

In before "not Law".

Universities' view of the A Level

More information from LSE's page

A post I made a while ago on how I found the A Level. I'm now reading Law at Cambridge.

[Jackkkkk]

I do know that quite a few English courses like you to have some understanding of psychology Bristol an York being two of these - especially the psychoanalysis stuff

It's a pretty underestimated A level an is quite a bit of work - especially the last A2 exam but if you click with it - and have an interest in it - I'd go for psych


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[pbsjohnz]

There was hardly any maths in economics at A level. It is a good choice as universities respect it. It is an essay based subject but requires some studying. I would take Eng Lit, History and Economics from those choices as they will open up options if say you change your mind and want to do something business related such as Marketing and Management, or Accounting.

Law and psychology are not good subject to choose at A level.

[chaza01]

Whatever you do, do not take law.

[charliemac41]

I would suggest doing your own research. At the end of the day everyone has their own view, and the only way i found out is doing research into unis I thought I would apply to. LSE are the best for publishing "un-liked" subjects, so it might be worth starting there. From then on just think about the course you want to do at uni, and most importantly what you enjoy.

P.S You might want to research what russell group actually means, just letting you know that whilst most russell groups are of a high quality, the russell group is self selecting and does not contain all the high quality uni's in the country.. E.G bath is one of the best unis in the country and is not in the russell group

[roh]

(Original post by Tortious)
In before "not Law".

Universities' view of the A Level

More information from LSE's page

A post I made a while ago on how I found the A Level. I'm now reading Law at Cambridge.

To be fair according to the Trinity list if she decided on English or History Law isn't viewed as favourably, being List B for Land Econ and Law.

Generally though agree Law A Level takes a pasting on here it just doesn't warrant.

[Norton1]

(Original post by Tortious)
In before "not Law".

Universities' view of the A Level

More information from LSE's page

A post I made a while ago on how I found the A Level. I'm now reading Law at Cambridge.

I'm not sure if you can do this - although you do have that pretty forum assistant tag - but can we sticky a "What A Levels should I do for Law?" thread. I've seen virtually the same thing about 8 times.

[Tortious]

(Original post by roh)
To be fair according to the Trinity list if she decided on English or History Law isn't viewed as favourably, being List B for Land Econ and Law.

Generally though agree Law A Level takes a pasting on here it just doesn't warrant.

I haven't had chance to look at the requirements for those courses, but the point stands that even Trinity won't reject you out of hand if you've got the A2, provided you're able to offer two subjects from lists A1/A2. I know you're not disagreeing with me, but I thought it was worth reiterating.

(As an aside, you're one of my PS Help mentees - I'm just waiting for you to be added to the user group before PMing you. Hello. )

[Tortious]

(Original post by Norton1)
I'm not sure if you can do this - although you do have that pretty forum assistant tag - but can we sticky a "What A Levels should I do for Law?" thread. I've seen virtually the same thing about 8 times.

Believe me, if I could, I would! It's also slightly annoying that the TSR "insight" blog thing is written by someone who isn't fully informed. Sadly it's not like a wiki page, so it can't be edited...

The way FAs work is that we're essentially "crippled" mods - we can't access post reports but are able to sticky/move/delete posts. They're all restricted to certain forums - mine are exclusively for PS Help, so I can't do anything elsewhere on the site.

[Norton1]

(Original post by Tortious)
Believe me, if I could, I would! It's also slightly annoying that the TSR "insight" blog thing is written by someone who isn't fully informed. Sadly it's not like a wiki page, so it can't be edited...

The way FAs work is that we're essentially "crippled" mods - we can't access post reports but are able to sticky/move/delete posts. They're all restricted to certain forums - mine are exclusively for PS Help, so I can't do anything elsewhere on the site.

"Differently abled" mod powers I should hope! Who is the mod for this forum anyway? Perhaps we could draw their attention with swearing and misbehaviour and whatnot.

[roh]

(Original post by Tortious)
I haven't had chance to look at the requirements for those courses, but the point stands that even Trinity won't reject you out of hand if you've got the A2, provided you're able to offer two subjects from lists A1/A2. I know you're not disagreeing with me, but I thought it was worth reiterating.

(As an aside, you're one of my PS Help mentees - I'm just waiting for you to be added to the user group before PMing you. Hello. )

True. Clearly hasn't been written by a law tutor as having (to be honest for the first time ) read the actual introduction there seems to be ambiguity as to whether it's acceptable only as a fourth for subjects besides Law and Land Econ or not.

Hey! Yeah apparently I was meant to be on a couple of days but there's some technical hitch.

[Tortious]

(Original post by Norton1)
"Differently abled" mod powers I should hope! Who is the mod for this forum anyway? Perhaps we could draw their attention with swearing and misbehaviour and whatnot.

I know you're only joking, but it's a real term, honest! I know a few study-y mods quite well - they're probably confined to the Cambridge subforum, but I'll see what I can do.

Cheers for the rep.

[Pride]

You'd find psychology unbearable if you didn't have an interest in it. It's lots of remembering of seemingly useless studies and stuff...

Economics, I take this. It's difficult. If you're up for a challenge, go for it. But it's hard, it'd help if you were interested in current affairs as it would come naturally, discussing macroeconomic policy in the last 15-mark questions of the paper. You learn how to use diagrams to analyse your points too.

choose which you think you'll do well in. Don't think it's because you choose one or the other that you don't get into a Russell group uni. It's the grades that matter a lot more.

[Rancorous]

I found that those who had done law at A-level had a huge advantage, particularly for the first year of the degree. Much of the content overlapped and they took what the topics they were interested in further. It may sound silly, but a university teaching 'year' is just 5 months after holidays. It saves a huge amount of time grasping the basics which could then be spent on mastering certain topics. I also think when you've got a good 2:1 or whatever in something, it's easier to replicate that in other exams in the future because you know the standard you have to aim for.

[Delph123]

From my experience for what it's worth (have taught Law for 15 years) there is no significant difference to university exam grades for students who have studied Law at A level to those that haven't. Marking schemes at degree level are far less prescriptive and it can take a bit of adjustment for a student who is used to writing very good A level answers to move towards being able to write more open answers. Saying that it certainly provides a good grounding- in my experience the only students who really suffer from this are the ones who think they 'know' Law when in reality there is far more to be explored than an A level syllabus could realistically cover.


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