Current Year 11 Thread Mark I (2014-2015)

My original intention for A Level was to study English Lit, Psychology, Sociology and R.S. I don't enjoy R.S anymore and I'm not very good at it so I'm thinking of taking Spanish, Politics, or History as my fourth subject. I don't do History at GCSE but my school would allow me to take it at A Level.

I'm not sure if I'm good enough at Spanish to do it at A Level (I got a B in it in my mock but I tend to get A* in the writing tasks in lessons). I don't know much about Politics though. Can someone please help me if possible? Thanks

If you're not sure about Politics, I'd see if you can attend a taster session at your sixth form/college to see what you make of it. Besides that, I'd definitely go for Spanish - languages are always a good option (although I am slightly biased - taking Maths, Physics, French and Spanish).

Good luck with your choices!


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Indeed! I would love to do Dentistry but maybe specialise and do something like Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

What about yourself?

Do you mean what subjects I'm taking? If so, I'll be studying English Lit., Biology, Chemistry and Physics for the mains and Economics+PE for the add ons in 3 months from now, which is when Year 11 starts for me. Dropping maths though, not very good at it :P

I think it's possible once you're 16 to shadow a doctor. I know a BDS student who was able to see open heart surgery at my age. It sounded fun, but I can only imagine the goriness.

Oh are you doing iGCSEs?

You could say that, yup, I'm doing 'Pre-boards', which are equivalent to IGCSEs here, so yeah. Otherwise everything is pretty much the same.

Oh that sounds nice! Are you wanting to study in England ?


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Hi Zainab

I hope you have a great birthday

When I did my GCSEs I took English lit, English lang, maths, triple science, history and Spanish What MFL are you doing? Congrats on your early GCSEs

At least you know what you don't want to do I'm doing history, English lit and maths as 3 of my AS Levels So if you need any help just ask

It's cool that your teachers are being a lot more friendly now you're in year 11, I found that too they're even friendlier in sixth form You get a year 11 common room? We only just got one in year 12

Oh, and welcome to the thread

One thing that's putting me off doing History and English Lit both at AS is that everyone I tell sort of laughs a little and tells me I'm writing my own death warrant.

Hi there

Don't let them tell you what you can and can't do at AS. You mentioned a few pages ago that you don't know what you want to do; I'm in the same situation and my higher education advisor tried to get me to do Maths instead of the... eclectic mix of subjects I intend to take. In my opinion, taking subjects that aren't your interests and that don't represent you are less likely to lead you to where you want to be in life.

Choosing the wrong subjects won't lead you down the right path.

Merry Christmas, hope you've had a nice day

Thanks a million

Don't even get me started on my Advisor... "Darling, you have the intellectual ability to take Medicine at University, aim high honey: Oxford and Cambridge, not Birmingham (I asked what was wrong with Birmingham as that's where I intend to go and she just gave a patronising smile which screamed 'listen to me, I know more than you!'). You need to take Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Maths, not English and History. I mean no offense but what good is english to you?"

I pointed out that English was a core subject and I loved the subjects I had already chosen and that patronising smile came out again...

What subjects do you want to take at A Level?

Hope you had an awesome day too.

Thanks for that Had a long day today and you just made me smile...

I hope my birthday goes good too but the fact that it's a mock exam date doesn't look so good to me ... Oh well. It's on a friday. whoop whoop!

I'm actually doing Urdu with AQA, it's the only subject I'm finding VERY hard...

How did you do triple science? As separate GCSEs: Physics, Chemistry and Biology, or Core, Additional and Further Additional?

One thing that's putting me off doing History and English Lit both at AS is that everyone I tell sort of laughs a little and tells me I'm writing my own death warrant.

Can I just ask what exam boards you are doing those three subjects with?

Up until this year, I actually thought teachers were these alien type creatures who only lived in school because they just seemed so stiff. Not anymore.

Actually, our common room is being established. We pushed for private space for year 11s as the library and 'study' areas are always clogged with younger kids who are really loud. Plus it's not fair on them if the whole of year 11 just take over the Library and it's unfair on us if we don't have access to the appropriate materials. [On top of everything our school is pretty small so even if it isn't really crowded, the library looks crowded]. It was pretty cool when my Head of Year came around asking what everyone wanted in there, I mean some kids came out with the most bizarre suggestions [one guy asked for a pole... was my face until I realised what he was talking about ]

She said that over the Christmas Holidays they would look at the list, take the stuff that we definitely can't have because of Health and Safety off and then buy all the other things [They were cool about Sofas and Cushions and a snooker table- let's see how that pans out ]


Anyway, Hope you had an awesome Christmas and thanks for the reply. Later