I'm planning on doing maths, further maths, computer science and history for a level with the plan to study computer science at university, would this be a good idea?
I'm planning on doing maths, further maths, computer science and history for a level with the plan to study history at university, would this be a good idea?
Thats fine, if you want to study history at university, then you only really need history alevel
Unis are not 'impressed' by this - and by doing 4 you are likely to compromise all your grades. Remember, AAA will always look better than ABBBB.
I don't want to do four but at my school you can't do further maths except as a fourth a level and for computer science it's meant to be very helpful, would you still recommend only doing three? I got 9s in all these subjects at GCSE if that's relevant.
I don't want to do four but at my school you can't do further maths except as a fourth a level and for computer science it's meant to be very helpful, would you still recommend only doing three? I got 9s in all these subjects at GCSE if that's relevant.
hiya! unfortunately getting nines at gcse (great achievements btw) are not that relevant at alevel. the reason being is that instead of competing against the whole of the UK for a nine in maths and having people who hate maths/ aren’t very good at it bringing the grade boundary down, you are competing against people who are good at maths at alevel. for example, to do maths/ sciences at my school you have to have gotten a grade 7 at gcse or above! this just shows why getting a good grade at alevel is significantly harder and doing 4 alevels makes it even more so!
i don’t want to put you off doing 4 alevels because for some people it pays off! However, you really must but organised and able to deal with the stress of 4. For people unsure such as yourself, my school suggested taking the four alevels and then dropping one of the workload gets too much. if you are going to drop it make sure you do so before your grades in all the subjects are impacted as you will be at a disadvantage if you prolong it!
hiya! unfortunately getting nines at gcse (great achievements btw) are not that relevant at alevel. the reason being is that instead of competing against the whole of the UK for a nine in maths and having people who hate maths/ aren’t very good at it bringing the grade boundary down, you are competing against people who are good at maths at alevel. for example, to do maths/ sciences at my school you have to have gotten a grade 7 at gcse or above! this just shows why getting a good grade at alevel is significantly harder and doing 4 alevels makes it even more so!
i don’t want to put you off doing 4 alevels because for some people it pays off! However, you really must but organised and able to deal with the stress of 4. For people unsure such as yourself, my school suggested taking the four alevels and then dropping one of the workload gets too much. if you are going to drop it make sure you do so before your grades in all the subjects are impacted as you will be at a disadvantage if you prolong it!
I don't want to do four but at my school you can't do further maths except as a fourth a level and for computer science it's meant to be very helpful, would you still recommend only doing three? I got 9s in all these subjects at GCSE if that's relevant.
sorry to insert myself here. But in regards to 4 alevels, its doable but hard. Dont feel as of you need to do 4. I would recommend starting the year with 4 alevels and the moment things become hard drop one.
when i was in yr12, i started doing 4 subjects but couldn't handle it so i asked my school if i can drop one. So maybe ask your head of year if that's possible and take each day as it comes