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5th A-Level Choice?

jamessimth5

Cheers, I have them when I get back and i really cba revising for pretend exams with Christmas and holidays to enjoy.

Meh, I didn't revise for my mocks one bit. I figured, it'd show me in the best way possible what I needed to focus my revision on the most.

Reply 21

Renal

17

Hippysnake

For medicine, take your pick from the following subjects-
(In order of how important/relevant they are for medicine.)
Chemistry
Biology
~~Maths~~
Physics
Psychology

..

Reply 22

jamessimth5

2

Clements-

Meh, I didn't revise for my mocks one bit. I figured, it'd show me in the best way possible what I needed to focus my revision on the most.

thats a very good excuse.

Reply 23

Renal

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kat2pult

Try maths.

Please don't.

Reply 24

Greatleysteg

19

Latin, then Spanish, in order of recommendation.

Reply 25

abbi182

Clements-

I got 9 Cs in my mocks and I came out with 6A*, 2As and a B. I really wouldn't worry about them at all. No one works to their full potential for mocks but not only that but teachers generally mark them very harshly so that you work even harder for the real thing. At my old school, the general rule was that you would go up two grades at least in the real thing :smile:

Good luck.

I know exactly where you are coming from as that happened to me, screwed up a mock and was like I will not let you win

congrats, those grades are brilliant :smile:

Reply 26

theoldnurse

Latin is brilliant and AS is not actually any harder than GCSE.
However A2 Latin is rather challenging and might take up quite a bit of time.

Reply 27

kat2pult

18

Renal

Please don't.

Why not?

Reply 28

jamessimth5

2

Renal

Please don't.

whats maths like?

Reply 29

Toiletpaper8

13

Maths is an awesome subject...

Why aren't you taking it :hmmm:

Reply 30

Renal

17

BRB

Ignore everyone who says maths will make you a better candidate.

Also ignore all the Maths, Criminology and English students who think they know something about medical admissions.

Reply 31

Toiletpaper8

13

Renal

Also ignore all the Maths, Criminology and English students who think they know something about medical admissions.

Surely you've used logarithms and stuff at medical school? :p:

Reply 32

Hippysnake

19

Renal

..

Your reason for crossing maths off the list is two dots?

Is there some sort of funny message hidden inbetween those two dots?

Maths is good. Good for medicine. Good for the world. You should know. You don't wanna be sticking 1500ml of morphine up someones ass now would ya? Admittedly, differentiation will never play a part in medicine, but Trig and calculus sure will.

Reply 33

Toiletpaper8

13

Integration will be quite useful as well, I imagine.

Reply 34

Renal

17

Hippysnake

Good for medicine.

How the

would you know?

And no I wouldn't stick a litre and a half of morphine up someone's arse - mostly because it comes in mg... :rolleyes:

Reply 35

Hippysnake

19

Renal

How the

would you know?

And no I wouldn't stick a litre and a half of morphine up someone's arse - mostly because it comes in mg... :rolleyes:

It comes in suspension does it not? Like ketchup.
And I know my fair share of doctors, of course, I am not one, so you have me beaten there. My medicine ambition has died out, but I still know that Maths is a respected A-Level and is well recognised for courses such as medicine even though you'll never need to apply 99% of it.

Reply 36

Baki

12

Renal

Also ignore all the Maths, Criminology and English students who think they know something about medical admissions.

How about the stats and the problem solving skills gained from maths.

Plus it's considered a science, so helps out with those uni's who want three sciences (*cough* Oxbridge (well some of the colleges) *cough*)

Reply 37

ecokid

1

Stick with at least one conventional art subject though - it shows that you're a rounded person and gives you good analytic/argumentative skills. People seem to think arts are not related to medicine at all - but i like to think of them as the situational/social side of medicine where you have to analyse patient history/social background to look for clues in their diagnosis.

Latin would also be useful for learning/understanding many of the medical words, which become the source of infuriation for many a med student.

Reply 38

littleshambles

14

If you think you're capable of doing 5 *proper* AS Levels by all means do so. Looking back I think I probably could have done five if I wasn't such a lazyarse. I actually strongly recommended someone didn't do 5 AS a while back though, maybe I'm just feeling generous today...

Anyway I'd go with:

Bio, Chem, French and/or Latin (because I have a bias towards it and against Spanish, ha) and/or another science (Maths, Psychology?)

Reply 39

Egypt

9

Hippysnake

Your reason for crossing maths off the list is two dots?

Is there some sort of funny message hidden inbetween those two dots?

Maths is good. Good for medicine. Good for the world. You should know. You don't wanna be sticking 1500ml of morphine up someones ass now would ya? Admittedly, differentiation will never play a part in medicine, but Trig and calculus sure will.

I don't think I have ever used trig or calculus!

I know it was just an example, but having a maths A-level isnt going to prevent you giving the wrong dose!

I would just do the a-levels you enjoy and think you will do well in. If thats maths, then so be it!

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