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maths will never do any harm
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Octavian
Overviews and detailed specs are available online, it might be a good idea to have a read through - I was thinking about sociology until I realised it didn't have anything to do with what I thought.
Of the two, I'd personally go for Computing.
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Khodu
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Sociology is boring. I'd go for Computing.
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I've done a bit more digging into the course content of computing, skim-read the 2nd half of our current textbook (the bit with A2 units in) and have decided that, come May, I will be very glad to get rid of it. Woo sociology!

However, I am now faced with a new dilemma to annoy you with. Before I was limited to four subjects because of the A2 Computing. Now I won't be doing computing, I can do five subjects. I've had a look through the courses the college offers and I've decided to go with RS.
This one's for the uni people (admissions tutors, lecturers, post-grads, under-grads, this september's freshers, anyone!): Is Economics, History, Politics, Sociology and RS a good subject set to have to get an Oxford (or anywhere) place on a History and Politics Joint Honours programme?
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goats
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Maths u won't get into Oxbridge without it
sssgeni
I've done a bit more digging into the course content of computing, skim-read the 2nd half of our current textbook (the bit with A2 units in) and have decided that, come May, I will be very glad to get rid of it. Woo sociology!

However, I am now faced with a new dilemma to annoy you with. Before I was limited to four subjects because of the A2 Computing. Now I won't be doing computing, I can do five subjects. I've had a look through the courses the college offers and I've decided to go with RS.
This one's for the uni people (admissions tutors, lecturers, post-grads, under-grads, this september's freshers, anyone!): Is Economics, History, Politics, Sociology and RS a good subject set to have to get an Oxford (or anywhere) place on a History and Politics Joint Honours programme?


Yes that sounds like a great combination. Maths or a foreign language would also be desirable to show you're good at other stuff, but we've already established you don't want do them so that's fine. Start with those five in sept, and drop one in sept/oct if you find it too much; 5 as levels really is alot, and is unnecessary, only continue five if you are really enjoying them and still have free time to socialise work etc. AAAA is better than AABBB! For oxbridge you'll want to lots of extra curricular as well as amazing grades to speak of in an interview. One of my has an offer for PPE (AAA) and she's doing RS, English Lit and History, to A2 with critical thinking (hardly regarded as a subject normally) as her as level, showing that doing lots of subjects doesn't matter. But yeh, good luck mate, and knuckle down and get straight A*s at GCSE :smile:
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AAAirz
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Just do maths.
Its respected for whatever degree you choose.
Reply 28
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dynamic1
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AS in Maths is not too difficult, much of the Core 1 and 2 content is a extension of GCSE with some Calculus ie Integration Differentiation. Statistics 1 is very straight forward if you study it at GCSE, with some more advanced Probability and Distrubution content. AS Computing the coursework is way too much work at A2, Sociology is do able at AS so is RE. Though if you did Maths AS you might have a better contrasting AS.

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