Hi guys/girls
So I will start A levels in September 2014 and I cannot decide on anything! I think this is because I don't know what I want to do with my life which depresses me because jobs seem to be everywhere , I turn on the TV and there's a program about vets or Brian Cox talking about physics or even the actors on tv , all these things make me think about jobs and A levels and make me worried about A levels.
My target grades are as follows:
English:A*
Maths:A
Biology:A
Chemistry:A
Physics:A*
History:A
Geography:B
French:A
DT:A
At the moment I am considering doing english, chemistry,biology and maths, but each of these have their own problems:
English: I have been targeted an A* for my GCSEs and in my mock I missed out on an A* by 2% for my language exam and have been similarly close for my literature exams. I always thought of English as my strongest subject but looking at those results I am starting to doubt that and question whether I should do it at A level. I read a lot and so I suppose I do enjoy English but I am worried that I may find it boring and have to drop it.
Chemistry: I am targeted an A for my GCSEs and have solidly achieved this throughout the year but at the beginning of year 10 I received Cs for my attainment grade , which had changed to As by the end of year 10 but which still worries me that I may struggle with A level chemistry.
Biology: this is one of my favourite subjects and again I am targeted an A which I usually achieve apart from a lapse wherein I got a high B in my mocks. This is also the subject that I am feeling least nervous about because I felt that all my GCSE exams went well and I achieved 95% in my IS A. However I worry that biology does not lead to As many careers as chemistry or other subjects unless I plan to go into medicine and I don't think that I am clever enough to do that.
Maths: this is my main indecision because maths, doing maths ( past papers and such) is probably my favourite school thing to do , despite this however , while I am targeted an A , I have never achieved over a B in mock exams, however in past papers I have been getting As and A* with the last paper I did before that actual exam scoring 92 out of 100. Despite this however I think I will get a B in my final exam and this makes it unadvisable to do for A level. I also realise that you might need to do it for A level chemistry if you have any hope of achieving a decent grade.
Another A level that I am considering is A level physics . This would be good because I would want to take it onto uni but I am told that A level physics gets much harder and I don't think I would be able to get a good grade , having heard horror stories of people going from an A at GCSE to a U at A level.
I don't know what's wrong with me haha , the subjects I enjoy , I am not very good at (maths) and the subjects I sometimes find a bit boring, I do the best in (English). I am also annoyed at myself because the 'easier ' subjects such as geography that people get A* effortlessly with very little revison and then take it on to A level and will most likely get an A* there too, while I find these easy subjects more difficult.
I am not sure if I am clever enough to do A levels , you read on here of people getting all A*s or five A*s at A levels, everyone seems to be so much smarter than me and I worry that I am not going to get a good job. I want my job to be well paid , not because I am interested in the luxuries that it brings, but that I want my family and my descendants to go to a good school and have a nicer life and live comfortably.
Anyway I am sorry for the long essay and all the worrying but I do get very worried over this kind of thing.
Anyway , thank you to anyone who does offer any advice.