If I don't get AAA

The OP was not asking if English was an easy A level or not. The point is, Exeter ask for an A in English because it is the best grade and only the best can achieve it. The course is popular and heavily oversubscribed

That makes no sense.

English is probably in the top 3 most competitive subjects at the top universities. It's not a course that's renowned for leniency with entrance requirements.

I'm judging you to be a troll based on most of the other things I've seen you post.

English is a horribly oversubscribed course because it's, well, largely useless (practically speaking) to society and so the number of students that can take it is indirectly limited. Of course, literature etc. are invaluable, but you don't need an English degree to write poetry.

What exactly constitutes a 'troll'? Given your judgement on English A level, I doubt your opinion will keep me up.

That makes no sense.

English comes after... Medicine, Law, Architecture, Economics to name a few. It is hardly in the top 3.

Keep you up where?

Someone who only posts for the purpose of causing conflict, whether they try to disguise it or not, constitutes as a troll.

Not only the best can achieve it, was my point - which is exactly why universities which aren't even top 10 feel the need to require an A. The course is popular because quite a lot of people are this good at English, because it's not that difficult.

And before anyone else asks - yes, I do study English, and initially planned to take it at university.

It's not easy. If you were good enough at it to read it at University level then you'd know this

Sorry, I should have clarified. It's oversubscribed because lots of people want to take it but the number of places is restricted due to the limited use of an English degree in modern society.

I refuse to have a conversation justifying my suitability to read English at degree level online with a stranger. Suffice to say, I abandoned it rather than vice versa once realising it provided little or no grounding for the real world.

If that's true then surely Medicine would be the easiest course to get on.

If you say so trolly
I'm bored of you now

I was bored of your university before I'd even visited. It's my fifth choice though so I really doubt I'll have to go. (Full of people like you).

it isn't oversubscribed because it's useless, it's oversubscribed because it's popular. english literature degrees don't aim to teach you how to write poetry, so you've missed the point a little bit.

at a university like exeter, I think if you miss your offer you're likely not to be offered a place anyway. if you want to put it as your firm, you're just going to have to work hard to get your grades. are you doing anything like the AEA?

there's plenty of other (and better) people who do.
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I am doing the AEA.