Advice- dropping a subject after AS

This kind of follows on from the thread I made about the number of A-levels people are studying. I'm currently doing French, English lit, history and sociology at AS and am trying to decide whether or not to carry all 4 on to A2. It was my original intention to do 4 A2s, but after talking to a few Year 13s at my school, they've all advised me to drop one because the workload gets much bigger at A2, espcially since my subjects are all very time consuming. Those of you now on A2 or at uni, what did you think about the difference in workload between AS and A2? I'd especially appreciate the opinions of someone doing the same or similar subjects to me. If it helps at all, I'm aiming for AAAA (don't know if I'll actually get it or not though!) and I'm hoping to do French and Spanish (possibly modern languages with Italian as well) at a good uni. I already have an AVCE in ICT, taken in Years 10-11, but I only got a very high D

The workload does get bigger. I think its more because there is coursework, but mainly as the topics you study are harder to grasp than at AS. Eng lit has a bigger workload, and you'll prob have written courework for this, hist and sociology.

i did AS Eng and Art with A2 Math Phys Chem and Certificate of enterprise. i was forcast AAA at a2 but only got ABB with AA at AS art and eng. so i'd say drop a subject and get AAA instead of ABBB and stuggle.

drop sociology as its thought of as a doss subject. maybe a cgood compromise is to do AS or GCSE spansh at a local college at night if u really wana work!!

I'll have coursework for English lit, sociology and French at A2, but not for history; at AS I have coursework for English lit, sociology and history, but not French, so I'll have the same amount of coursework at A2 as at AS. I definitely won't be dropping French or English lit. The problem is that I love sociology and I really don't want to drop it, whereas I wouldn't be fussed about dropping history because it's all right but not great. So if I do decide to drop one, do I drop a subject I love and will, according to my teacher, probably get a very high A in just because it's seen as a doss, or do I drop a subject I'm not so keen on that I don't think I'll do as well in, even though it's more respected?

I'll have coursework for English lit, sociology and French at A2, but not for history; at AS I have coursework for English lit, sociology and history, but not French, so I'll have the same amount of coursework at A2 as at AS. I definitely won't be dropping French or English lit. The problem is that I love sociology and I really don't want to drop it, whereas I wouldn't be fussed about dropping history because it's all right but not great. So if I do decide to drop one, do I drop a subject I love and will, according to my teacher, probably get a very high A in just because it's seen as a doss, or do I drop a subject I'm not so keen on that I don't think I'll do as well in, even though it's more respected?

I'm at uni now doing French and Russian. I have a strange case though; since our school was a language college (allegedly though we had about 10 AS/A2 linguists in total) and I took A/S French Spanish Maths Gov & Pol, getting AABE. I dropped Government and Politics owing to the fact it was a humanity and not my strength. I also however, was doing GCSEs in Italian (which given my background in language wasn't a problem) and Russian (which I had 1.5hrs a week of). Ignoring the GCSEs, the language work is a lot more voluminous, but since you're only doing French I wouldn't worry too much about it. I would say drop History. Sociology isn't a doss, and I knew a lot of history students who suffered from doing that subject along with others. Sociology is clearly something you like a lot and your motivation will help you, furthermore if you're going to get an A in it then that can only serve to make your life easier and mean you can concentrate on other subjects. I assume you have extracurricular things you do as well, I played league chess almost 3 nights a week and as well as having 5 subjects to do that knackered me so 3 A2s is quite enough. English lit and French will take up large chunks of your time, and there's no point doing something you don't want to. In the end, I started Japanese at Sheffield Uni but changed back to French and Russian. When I did maths I was always extremely enthusiastic (I even considered doing it at uni oh the very thought now sends chills down my spine) but despite this I scraped a C 7 marks above the boundary. Good luck with whatever you decide.

I advise to drop one subject as the workload will increase. Since you are gonna do modern languages at uni, it is advisable to drop a non-language A-level.

I agree - drop an AS. It shouldn't affect your chances of getting into a top uni, as they all ask for 3As max - no point overdoing it on that level unless you really enjoy the extra subjects. Which uni do you want to study at anyway? One or two of my friends have applied to do modern languages at uni this year.

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This kind of follows on from the thread I made about the number of A-levels people are studying. I'm currently doing French, English lit, history and sociology at AS and am trying to decide whether or not to carry all 4 on to A2. It was my original intention to do 4 A2s, but after talking to a few Year 13s at my school, they've all advised me to drop one because the workload gets much bigger at A2, espcially since my subjects are all very time consuming. Those of you now on A2 or at uni, what did you think about the difference in workload between AS and A2? I'd especially appreciate the opinions of someone doing the same or similar subjects to me. If it helps at all, I'm aiming for AAAA (don't know if I'll actually get it or not though!) and I'm hoping to do French and Spanish (possibly modern languages with Italian as well) at a good uni. I already have an AVCE in ICT, taken in Years 10-11, but I only got a very high D

Don't listen to everyone who tells you to drop sociology just because it is 'less respected' than History. Universities won't care, seriously. Carry on with the three you enjoy the most. I dropped History after AS simply because I wasn't enjoying it as much as my other three (English, Geog and Psych), and I managed to get five offers from good universities even though psychology is apparently a 'doss' subject.

I know how you feel. Atm i'm doing Eng lit, German, psych and geog AS and am going back and forth over whether to drop geog or German. I was sure it was gonna be geog but i had a disasterous oral mock in German so i'm not so sure...although i know German will complement English better which is what i want to do at uni and i'm scared now having read how all these amazing applicants can't get into any decent unis for English....