history and english lit a level

literature's workload isnt that intense honestly (atleast from a personal preference) and in relation with history, it may provide very useful in terms of contextual marks as a large part of literature essays are set out on context. Language would be good for skills like persuading or creative writing, whilst literature is good for analysing and coming up unique interpretations. for me personally, i find lit as my comfort subject as going through analysis is rather theraputic (my other subjects are socio and psych). I would suggest you go through the specifications of both subjects and see which would interest you more, as well as look online of peoples experiences of both subjects (like ive seen alot of people regret choosing language). Good luck!

Thank you so much for this - what is the sort of things that you would do in lit? Like are there any specific questions or research or reading that you need to do extra?

I'm pretty much set on taking history and biology at a level. However, I want to swap english language with literature as my third choice but i am just not sure whether the workload of history and lit will be too much. Could anyone help? I enjoy both english subjects the same and would like some advice.

I've done History, English Lit, and Langauge at A-level and tbh the work load is pretty difficult to juggle. History is a big step up from IGCSEs, not the AS course so much as the AL, but it's really enjoyable. Lit has a lot of reading, research, essay writing etc. Language is a bit easier but believe it or not the second half of AL is nothing like IGCSE. It focusses on Langauge Acquisition, Language Change, & Langauge and Identity. They're both really interesting and god subjects to pair with History. Personally I prefer Lit, and if you enjoy it, balancing the work load isn't that bad. Lit helps a lot with History actually, they compliment each other very well.

But in the end, if you have a specific career in mind you should probably choose the subject that will help you more in that : D

I'm pretty much set on taking history and biology at a level. However, I want to swap english language with literature as my third choice but i am just not sure whether the workload of history and lit will be too much. Could anyone help? I enjoy both english subjects the same and would like some advice.