How much chemistry?

Well, Ive just finished 2nd year at glasgow so no clinical stuff yet but theres been basically no chemistry. The stuff there has been has been the overlapping aspect with biology (e.g. protein structure), but theres also biotech things (my friend said she learnt PCR in her highers..). But apart from that, not really.
The course is mainly Alevel biology but 1000x more complicated and hard! I mean, like adding to the relatively 'simple' stuff at A level, making you realise its much more complex than you'd ever thought before.

Someone told me this too, although I think it's a v unhelpful thing to say - people wouldn't be able to get A's in the A2 modules it it was true!

I'm doing AS and A2 in a year this year... it's been crazyhard (last chem i did was double science GCSE in 2002), but I've survived, so you will too! Although I haven't had my grade yet, so that will be the teller...!

As in polymerase chain reaction/dna amplification?

Bugger about the biology lol. I find it the hardest subject at A-level just due to the sheer volume that you have to learn.

In one year? That's crazy! I could never do that. Chemistry is just not my forte. It doesn't help that I really don't like my teachers and they keep telling me I'm being ridiculous for wanting to be a vet because I'm not good enough.

Don't listen to them!! I got told that I'd never get in by lots of people, and I ended up with four offers - just work your butt off and prove them all wrong! You can do it!!

Don't listen to them!! I got told that I'd never get in by lots of people, and I ended up with four offers - just work your butt off and prove them all wrong! You can do it!!

Yer, my teachers strongly suggested that I wouldn't get in. Don't listen, prove them wrong and then go wave your offers in their face

i think A2 is easier too, cos you get used to what the questions are asking, and they seem relatively a lot easier. having said that i am retaking the first chemistry AS module (chemistry for life) and the content is all so basic. i can do a past paper and mark it in under an hour easily, when the exam is actually 1hr 15, so i guess its all relative.

What exam board do you do? I think A2 chemistry is a thousanddd times harder than AS. AS seems a breeze to what we did this year! I do AQA.

What exam board do you do? I think A2 chemistry is a thousanddd times harder than AS. AS seems a breeze to what we did this year! I do AQA.

I totally agree with you JennyB! I'm doing AQA too. Damn bloody transition metals with their million different colour changes with stupid specific colours like grey-green.....it's GREEN for gods sake!

I've found that some of the colours contradict each other depending on which book you look at too - really helpful!!

i think A2 is easier too, cos you get used to what the questions are asking, and they seem relatively a lot easier. having said that i am retaking the first chemistry AS module (chemistry for life) and the content is all so basic. i can do a past paper and mark it in under an hour easily, when the exam is actually 1hr 15, so i guess its all relative.