Choosing your A-levels? Your questions answered here! MKII

As you don't know what to do at uni, you should pick another facilitating subject (which rules out psychology). Beyond that, it's a case of what you enjoy the most.

Chemistry is more specific, and would help a lot with any science/maths/engineering course at uni, whereas history and English would probably help with most courses, but to a lesser extent.

Most people exaggerate the jump*, although French might be a lot harder. Geography (Edexcel) is the same difficulty as GCSE, there's just quite a lot more in the syllabus. Have a look at the exams. Unit 1 even has a few multiple choice questions.

*Everyone your age is in the same position. Even if the jump was too much, the grade boundaries would be lower, so in the end the cleverest/most hard-working people should get the best results, regardless of how difficult the courses are, and with your GCSE results – almost the same as mine – you should be fine.

Do you think history would be too similar to gov and pol or would that be different?

I don't do either so can't really say, sorry

I'm starting in September and am doing English Lit and History, however I don't know what 3rd subject to take, I'm thinking about a career in law. Any recommendations?

Hello I was wondering if you could help me... My level choices are English lit, Creative Writing, History and Film studies.
However I wish to change film studies to either philosophy or fine art, and I was wondering if someone could tell me the pros and cons of each and maybe which would possibly work best with my chosen subjects.

P.S I plan to study English Literature at Uni

Thanks,
Joey

English Literature is a popular and competitive subject, and out of Philosophy and Fine Art, Philosophy is seen as the less 'weak' subject. I have friends who do both, and they prefer Philosophy - although fun, Fine Art takes up so much of your time that it's not always worth following unless you intend to take your studies further with it.

I am going into year 11 and I am stuck about what to take for a levels.

I am definitely taking: geography, English literature, maths

So there's one slot remaining:
Spanish or further maths?

Spanish: I loved Spanish in year 10, and I feel I have been improving a lot. In general, I just really enjoyed it (for the most part, anyway). My teacher was absolutely amazing, but she left my prediction for gcses is an a*

Further maths: I wasn't offered further maths gcse until the year was almost over, so I was too late to be put in a class, therefore I have to teach myself further maths gcse. I think I am capable at maths if I put my mind to it. I am in a lower set in maths, but my prediction for gcse maths is a*. My teacher was fantastic (but surprise surprise, she left too) and even though the lower sets aren't meant to do the Intermediate UKMT, she thought I was capable and signed me up for it too, and I ended up getting a silver award! It's just, because I wasn't offered further maths initially, I don't know if I'll be capable of further maths a level.

I'm not sure what I want to do in uni, but I might want to do something mathematics related, and the unis I want to go to (Imperial, UCL, KCL) all require further maths as an a level for any maths related degree. On the other hand, I know that a language at a level is a good advantage too, so I'm completely stuck and have no idea what I'm going to do!!

Any advice?


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I'm going into sixth form really soon! I feel that I did really well in my GCSE's but what if A levels are just too hard? A lot of people on social networking sites claim that a levels will hit you hard, I think I'm afraid of this 'big jump'! Please tell me that yes it is challenging but it's an exaggerated term used by many.


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