A-Level choices (another one)

Hi

I was talking to a friend whose friend :p:

wants to do

French (this she will apparently complete A2 in the first year)
Spanish
Russian
Music
(all to A2)
+ one other subject

She's very good at languages and music (obviously) and apparently not good at Maths & Sciences. Apparently she wants to do another subject in addition to those listed because she thinks three languages is "too specialised" and music is only useful if you want to study music and not for anything else (except being fun), and she thinks she won't have a problem with the workload because she's very good at languages and music. However she doesn't want that fifth subject to involve too much work (lol), i.e. it shouldn't involve coursework (or fieldwork). For this reason she doesn't want to do history or geography. She doesn't want to do english lit because she'll do literature topics in the languages so she wants something different.

I said this is a case for TSR :biggrin:

& I'd be happy to pass on any suggestions you may have, thanks. :smile:

Reply 1

inksplodge

17

it's gonna be pretty hard to find a subject without coursework or fieldwork :eek:

i was actually gonna suggest english lit or lang but you've already said she doesn't want to do that...

Reply 2

Ruthie!

16

Sociology/Psychology?
My mates who do these have less coursework for these than history or english.

Reply 3

Redders

Sociology coursework includes 'fieldwork' to an extent as your supposed to go and interview/questionnaire/observe people so this could potentially be a pain for the ops friend. But to point out that it's going to be a social science if not Maths/Science which all require coursework/fieldwork so i think you pretty stuck to be honest.

Reply 4

sundogs

2

erm...

what about Classical Civilisation(ancient history)

its an arts subject, not hugely taxing and has no coursework (from what i've heard)

Reply 5

inksplodge

17

Ruthie!

Sociology/Psychology?
My mates who do these have less coursework for these than history or english.

I did psychology and found the coursework to be a much heavier workload than english lit :rolleyes:

maybe it's a matter of personal preference though!

Reply 6

Ruthie!

16

just what they've said, i dont know personally. I assume they just found it easier then. Said there was too much reading as well with english

Reply 7

llys

OP

17

I love TSR, such fast replies, thanks everyone :smile:

I was also thinking Sociology, or Law? Do you think Law is a lot of work? And how much coursework would you really have to do for Sociology?

I've read in some places on here that Psychology is really difficult (I guess unless you REALLY like it) so I'm not sure she'd like that. :p:

Reply 8

llys

OP

17

Classical Civilisation also sounds like a good idea. :yy:

Reply 9

xinolisss

10

It's up to the person, General studies is generally not considered as part of uni offers, but it is still an A level, I mean, really for uni offers, she's got more than enough good strong A levels... so GS may not be that bad of an idea...

Reply 10

jelly1000

21

For Psychology, they have dropped the coursework on the AQA "A" syalbus.

Reply 11

llys

OP

17

What do you think, what is the most respected out of

Philosophy
Religious Studies
Psychology
Law
Sociology
Business
Government and Politics

to be combined with first-post subjects for language study at university? + currently she wants to go into journalism/media/something like that afterwards.. but that might change.

Thanks for your replies. :smile:

Reply 12

sundogs

2

llys

What do you think, what is the most respected out of

Philosophy
Religious Studies
Psychology
Law
Sociology
Business
Government and Politics

to be combined with first-post subjects for language study at university? + currently she wants to go into journalism/media/something like that afterwards.. but that might change.

Thanks for your replies. :smile:

Religious Studies would be more respected than the others.I think it's considered the most academic out of those.
But if she wants to into the media I'd say Govn't Politics would be more useful I think or Sociology.

RS makes a nice combination with Languages.

Reply 13

Astin Martin

Er no i don't think language a levels are good. they would be abnormally, mind-blowing and difficult so don't ever do it unless you're an ace and know the language inside out!!!!1

A-Level choices (another one)

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