A-Level Psychology

Hi, i’m currently in year 11 and in a few months I will be at college. I have been having trouble recently picking my courses because there seems to be so many ones that I’m interested in. For a while now I’ve been adamant on taking French and recently come to the thought of taking a Sport B-Tec. However for my third choice I don’t know what direction to go in because I am interested in Photography, Applied Business and Psychology. I have been really tempted to choose Psychology because the subject has been really interesting me but I don’t know if it it’s too similar too sport and would be a waste to take when I could pick a subject completely different and open my options. I also don’t know much about what careers you can get with the qualification because the few I’ve seen I’m not really interested to take part in for the future. If you have any advice for me it would be greatly appreciated even if it’s small.

Hey! I study psychology (OCR) and photography (AQA), alongside law, and I enjoy both.

Photography is obviously coursework heavy, so if you’d rather have more ‘control’ over the outcome that could be a good choice. I’ve found it’s also nice to have a creative subject to balance out my other essay heavy subjects. It also means I don’t have to ‘revise’ for 3 subjects which means I have more time to focus on my other 2.
Psychology is very content heavy since you have to remember lots of concepts and studies, but what you learn about is really interesting. It can be quite challenging but if you put the work in it’s definitely worth it.

Just because you take it at A-level (or equivalent) doesn’t necessarily mean you have to go into a career - I haven’t really looked into careers for either of these as I was always set of studying and going into law so I can’t really help much with that element unfortunately.

If you have any specific questions I’d be more than happy to answer

Thank you for replying. With photography how is the course work set out? Do you have to take pictures every week?