history or RS a-level??

i've chosen rs as my fourth option along with chemi, bio and maths (i want to study medicine) but i'm not sure whether i should swap it to history to show more variation along with the hard core sciences. any alevel students or fellow yr11/12s have any advice?? will be much appreciated

I applied for medicine and I did biology,chem, rs, maths and critical thinking but I then dropped maths at AS. The new course for RS looks very interesting but that means it is also it will be quite content heavy. Also, look at the modules you are doing as 1/2 of the A2 course for us was medical ethics which meant revising the ethics side for interview was suddenly a lot easier as all of it is lying in your subconscious. Choose which one you will enjoy and do better in as an A in one subject looks better than a C in another even if one is seen as more difficult as its still an A vs a C.
EDIT: one of the girls in my Alevel class didn't do GCSE. GCSE makes it slightly easier but only very slightly as you completely different topics especially in terms of philosophy

Well, I'm aiming for medicine myself and I'm doing Biology, Chemistry, English Lit and History this September. I did consider RS at one point because I had a lovely teacher and I enjoyed it a lot, but I talked to a lot of adults about it and they told me to go for history as it's supposed to be a more respected subject by universities. Not sure if this is accurate but I enjoy history more anyway


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If you can change it to psychology or physics as those two would be best for medicine.

it would be really good to get in the natural sciences trio - biology, chemistry and physics.

Critical thinking would be ideal if you can get that in too.

thanks that was incredibly helpful how difficult did you find the RS alevel in comparison to chem and bio? and any idea what grade that girl got?

yeahh i heard that history was a more respected alevel too but i was talking to someone who takes history this year and he said there was LOADS of out of hours reading you had to do before every lesson not that i mind reading but idk...

I'm aiming for Dentistry, otherwise Medicine.I'm doing the same subjects as you! I'm going to put RS for fourth. Both are interesting but long subjects. R.S. still shows diversity in options because you have medical ethics linking with medicine but then you have the religious aspect which is different and requires critical thinking so it's quite versatile too. But history is very good too but its very long and hard apparently.

hey, I plan on doing Medicine at Uni too. I've gone with RS, Chem, Bio and Maths for next year. Tbh i feel like RS will benefit you more in the future as some of the content goes hand-in-hand with what you'll be expected to know about when studying Medicine. That's just my perspective though, do what you think suits you the best!

yayy! and yeah thats exactly why i chose r.s aswell- because of the ethics but on my exam board that only makes up 30% of the final grade.

and could i just ask- what made you decide to do dentistry?? thanks though!