Same texts in uni as A level

Hello! I noticed that some of the first-year texts for my uni course are very common at A level. Are these included in the modules because we'll be studying them at a deeper level or because they are classic canon texts? Will some of the lectures repeat what I've already studied? Thanks in advance!

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Original post by stargirl1326

Honestly, it's up to the universities what they choose. There are so many exam boards and A level texts that I doubt it's because they were from A levels themself.

I had texts across all three of my undergraduate years that I'd studied before at some point. I studied Twelfth Night in first year. I did Dracula and The Picture Of Dorian Grey for a presentation in second year. All these texts I did at A level. I did Of Mice And Men in third year, a text I studied briefly at school as well. It's promarily because of their status as literary classics that a university module convenors will put a text on the course, rather than their status as an A level text. If you get one that you did study and you enjoyed it, then that's more than likely a lucky pick. Remember that some people won't have done those texts as well at A level due to exam boards!

Hope this helps,
Dom