[sandra95.p]

Hey guys,
I was wondering if biology, chemistry, french and psychology are good AS choices?
Also, do you know any good ways to prepare yourself for these subject throughout the summer?

I really want to achieve my best at a levels
Thanks in advance!

[usycool1]

Do you know what you want to do after college/Sixth Form? That may help us a bit in giving you advice with your choices... But generally, they look like good choices

CGP offer some good "Head start to AS level" books for biology and chemistry which may be a good way to star preparing for them. You can also get a psychology book from CGP although I'm not too sure how good that is and other people will be able to give you better recommendations for that.

Good luck

[sandra95.p]

(Original post by usycool1)
Do you know what you want to do after college/Sixth Form? But generally, they look like good choices

CGP offer some good "Head start to AS level" books for biology and chemistry which may be a good way to star preparing for them You can also get a psychology book from CGP although I'm not too sure how good that is and other people will be able to give you better recommendations for that

Good luck

Thanks! I've got the head start books and i will be working through them i was thinking if geography would be a better subject than psychology, since i heard many bad opinions about psychology that it is boring etc.
Thanks for your advice!

[kaypc]

hard but they are really good. chemistry and biology are very interesting. really loved my AS studies and would highly recommend them. make sure you work hard consistently through the year unlike me.

[sandra95.p]

(Original post by kaypc)
hard but they are really good. chemistry and biology are very interesting. really loved my AS studies and would highly recommend them. make sure you work hard consistently through the year unlike me.

ok thanks

[sandra95.p]

(Original post by usycool1)
Do you know what you want to do after college/Sixth Form? That may help us a bit in giving you advice with your choices... But generally, they look like good choices

CGP offer some good "Head start to AS level" books for biology and chemistry which may be a good way to star preparing for them. You can also get a psychology book from CGP although I'm not too sure how good that is and other people will be able to give you better recommendations for that.

Good luck

and forgot to say i think that after sixth form i would like to do something along the lines of medicine or physiotherapy

[melissaemily]

Hi, i started AS level psychology, after being pressured into it, it was not for me but i did find it really interesting, and it will help you with your other subjects as you learn memory techniques etc which i still use now. It is alot of writing though and i didn't complete the course but a few of my friends from school and college are now doing it at uni and love it. It may have just been my teacher i didn't like but it was interesting, like we had to draw pictures out of shapes n then reveal what it says about you, and look into how authority works, we all had to sit in a cirle and were told to do things to the person next to you by someone of authority, touch their shoulder, smile at them, whisper to them, until it got to ''slap them across the face'' n see who would respond to authority n do it and who would resist. We were shown expeiriments that i've seen on Derren Brown recently so if you find things like that interesting you may enjoy it i just didn't like first thing on a Monday morning having to watch videos of piles of dead bodies being moved during the holocaust to show them responding to authority, but that may have just been my teacher. I can't comment on geography but i have a couple of friends at university in their third year who love it and have just come back from Cuba. For medicine and Physiotherapy i don't think it will make much difference as long as you do well in your biology and chemistry, although i've heard they like all three sciences. Also if you're swaying towards physiotherapy P.E really helped me as it involves alot of anatomy of the body and movement, but basically as long as you have the main ones and get good grades i don't think it really matters so just do what you'll enjoy n check the universities you want to apply to for their entry requirements or what other people on here have been accepted with. Also if you begin a course and really don't like it i think you can change within a couple of weeks, i know when i started college there was loads of people changing including me so don't worry too much. Sorry for the long post. I start physiotherapy in September after doing an access course in medicine and health science professions with medicine students, both courses are really really competitive, in two classes there has been 1 student taken for physio (by the skin of my teeth) and 4 for medicine, not to scare you as universities seem to favour A levels but whatever you decide get as much experience in it as you can and good luck

[Oaktree]

(Original post by melissaemily)
Hi, i started AS level psychology, after being pressured into it, it was not for me but i did find it really interesting, and it will help you with your other subjects as you learn memory techniques etc which i still use now. It is alot of writing though and i didn't complete the course but a few of my friends from school and college are now doing it at uni and love it. It may have just been my teacher i didn't like but it was interesting, like we had to draw pictures out of shapes n then reveal what it says about you, and look into how authority works, we all had to sit in a cirle and were told to do things to the person next to you by someone of authority, touch their shoulder, smile at them, whisper to them, until it got to ''slap them across the face'' n see who would respond to authority n do it and who would resist. We were shown expeiriments that i've seen on Derren Brown recently so if you find things like that interesting you may enjoy it i just didn't like first thing on a Monday morning having to watch videos of piles of dead bodies being moved during the holocaust to show them responding to authority, but that may have just been my teacher. I can't comment on geography but i have a couple of friends at university in their third year who love it and have just come back from Cuba. For medicine and Physiotherapy i don't think it will make much difference as long as you do well in your biology and chemistry, although i've heard they like all three sciences. Also if you're swaying towards physiotherapy P.E really helped me as it involves alot of anatomy of the body and movement, but basically as long as you have the main ones and get good grades i don't think it really matters so just do what you'll enjoy n check the universities you want to apply to for their entry requirements or what other people on here have been accepted with. Also if you begin a course and really don't like it i think you can change within a couple of weeks, i know when i started college there was loads of people changing including me so don't worry too much. Sorry for the long post. I start physiotherapy in September after doing an access course in medicine and health science professions with medicine students, both courses are really really competitive, in two classes there has been 1 student taken for physio (by the skin of my teeth) and 4 for medicine, not to scare you as universities seem to favour A levels but whatever you decide get as much experience in it as you can and good luck

What she said

[sandra95.p]

(Original post by melissaemily)
Hi, i started AS level psychology, after being pressured into it, it was not for me but i did find it really interesting, and it will help you with your other subjects as you learn memory techniques etc which i still use now. It is alot of writing though and i didn't complete the course but a few of my friends from school and college are now doing it at uni and love it. It may have just been my teacher i didn't like but it was interesting, like we had to draw pictures out of shapes n then reveal what it says about you, and look into how authority works, we all had to sit in a cirle and were told to do things to the person next to you by someone of authority, touch their shoulder, smile at them, whisper to them, until it got to ''slap them across the face'' n see who would respond to authority n do it and who would resist. We were shown expeiriments that i've seen on Derren Brown recently so if you find things like that interesting you may enjoy it i just didn't like first thing on a Monday morning having to watch videos of piles of dead bodies being moved during the holocaust to show them responding to authority, but that may have just been my teacher. I can't comment on geography but i have a couple of friends at university in their third year who love it and have just come back from Cuba. For medicine and Physiotherapy i don't think it will make much difference as long as you do well in your biology and chemistry, although i've heard they like all three sciences. Also if you're swaying towards physiotherapy P.E really helped me as it involves alot of anatomy of the body and movement, but basically as long as you have the main ones and get good grades i don't think it really matters so just do what you'll enjoy n check the universities you want to apply to for their entry requirements or what other people on here have been accepted with. Also if you begin a course and really don't like it i think you can change within a couple of weeks, i know when i started college there was loads of people changing including me so don't worry too much. Sorry for the long post. I start physiotherapy in September after doing an access course in medicine and health science professions with medicine students, both courses are really really competitive, in two classes there has been 1 student taken for physio (by the skin of my teeth) and 4 for medicine, not to scare you as universities seem to favour A levels but whatever you decide get as much experience in it as you can and good luck

WOW! thank you so much! I think that answers all my questions
I heard that P.E isn't essential for physiotherapy and i don't think i would want to do it for A-levels, but maybe like you said i'll have a go at psychology and see if i like it
Where did you hear about the access course in medicine? and what grades did you get, if i can ask?
Thanks for all your help once again!!

[melissaemily]

Haha you're welcome! pe isn't essential the theory side just helped me alot with the anatomy but if you wouldn't enjoy it I don't recommend it erm the access course was at my college in Manchester it's basically just chemistry, biology and physics/maths combined and no I don't mind atall I got my results back yesterday I got 45 distinction 3 merits and 9 additional level 3 credits which they don't show the grades for. I spoke to one of the medicine students from another class yesterday at results day and only 4 of them got places, the ones who have done degrees already in other subjects, the rest are tryin again next year or have applied for other things like speech n language therapy instead, so stick to a levels if you can lol x

[Johnlia06]

Make sure you don't work too hard this summer! You don't want to run out of steam during summer exams as that's when you need to be really sharp. I would advise doing a little bit of work this summer, but just take it easy.

If you are looking to do medicine, you should start some voluntary work and work experience aswell. And your subject choices are fine.