help with a level choices pleaseeee!

My advice is to concentrate on what you want to do your degree in and what you enjoy most. At the end of the day, you ar not going to be teaching A level calculus to primary school children so just do what you are best at and what you enjoy.

I'd absolutely ADORE to go to Oxbridge, so I think I'll probably apply anyway. I really like the look of Edinburgh, so that's my second choice, and then Leeds is third. What other Uni's have you looked at?

And Alice (I don't know why, but I have this feeling that Alice is your name O_o ) do you know what Uni's you're thinking about yet? You don't have to know now, obviously, I'm just curious

You both ought to read A Thousand Splendid Suns, written by the same man who wrote The Kite Runner, it's amazing just throwing that out there

I'm not really sure about other universities as of yet, I'll need to look at some more soon.

And ooh, that sounds interesting; I'll have to pick up a copy soon.

I can't recommend Govt and Politics highly enough. I did it along with science amd maths and it was amazing at AS. Can't speak for A2.
If you are achieving B's in science and it is not triple science maybe be a bit wary. I got A*s in all my triple sciences and it was still very challenging
Maths is liked from the perspective of any degree as it show problem solving abilities etc.

My advice is to concentrate on what you want to do your degree in and what you enjoy most. At the end of the day, you ar not going to be teaching A level calculus to primary school children so just do what you are best at and what you enjoy.

i would probably do biology because i got an a* and a b in my year 10 exams. mind you, i bet its a bit different! really, i want to do history, english lit and french for definite and i have a bit of an interest in gov+pol but i could take something else. i was considering sociology at some point, is it even worth it?

Biology is definitely the easiest science as well. There is more to learn than in chem/physics but it is easier (so long as you are good at learning sequences, long words and good detail)

Govt and Politics, I took on a whim, cos I didn't fancy anything else. All I knew was a little bit about politics in N Ireland and I managed to get 100%. And it gave me an interest I never really had before. It's not very difficult and in my opinion it has been the most helpful of all my subjects. I finally can found my opinions on stuff I learn, not on what I think I know and it comes in handy in conversation. It doesn't recquire any work outside of lessons, only revision for exams because in lessons it was just constant conversation which means you pick it all up as it goes along. It all links really well together and gives you a pretty good view of the british system as a whole and a lot is based on the good and the bad points so you get a realistic view of it at the end of the day. (That's just my exp. with it anyway)

thanks it was triple science i think. well, we did six exams in the three topics
so...

to 'rosie and jim'
my name is alice, what gave it away?
erm, to be honest, i haven't really thought. but, because of close proximity to where i live, brimingham, aston and worcester would be my top choices.

hello i'm currently in year 11 and am choosing my a level subjects ready for college. i am applying to 5 colleges but there is one im particularly favouring. i want to become a primary school teacher in the future, preferrably to children aged between 4 and 7 but would like to do a degree in a subject i enjoy first and then teacher training later to keep my options open.
so far, i have chosen these choices:

english literature (a2), french, history and government and politics.

considering i am currently achieving B's in science and maths, do you think these choices offer enough variety?
thankyouuu.

Pretty good choices! Although I would recommend you consider taking Maths instead of Government and Politics. It doesn't seem so useful to you now, it certainly didn't for me, but trust me, you need it for everything - and I'd still say this assuming you want to go into a humanities course?

Would you say that because of calculus and it's relevance, or the decision side of Mathematics?

My best friend wants to be a Primary School teacher as well and she's doing English Lit/Lang, Philosophy, German and Photography. It actually doesn't HUGELY matter what you take providing you do well in them and you have an A level in the part of teaching that you want to go into. So if you wanted to be a Humanities teacher, History will be a good one.
Also, French also looks really good, though (as previously mentioned by someone else) it's horrific; I took it a year early at GCSE and got an A* but AS seems diabolically hard. But don't let that put you off, just an advance warning that I wish someone had given me. D:

you are all being helpful
- hopefully, i want to do a history degree or something so i suppose that is humanities.
- my mum is a primary school teacher and i did work experience at a school, perhaps i should go back in and ask for opinions from the staff?

Have you got any techniques for Politics essays? I'm getting A's in the ones that I'm doing, but they could surely be improved.

I'm no expert but my general feeling was....

An intro that has some relevant factual info. i.e. in 2007 such a person said such aa thing and since then there has been much..... about whether..... You need an intro, you might as well et some A01/ A02 credit in it.

I wrote mine like a constant debate. Like one point and then argue against it etc while arguing back with new points etc.

Strong conclusion that refers to alot of what you said. Mine where always the longest paragraph where you can waffle a bit about why you cclnsider certain evidences to be more important than others etc.

LOTS of examples!!!!!

Be concise. You don't have much time. I finished my essays literally 30 secs before the end so no chance to read through and I am a fast writer. My writing is small and I used all the space provided on every question.


Tbh, i didn't do too much practice. I was getting between 80 and 90% in class tests and they were the only papers I did. Make sure you know the facts and the examples etc more so you don't waste time thinking of them. I used those things where you remember sentences with the same starting letters about different politicians which then reminded me of examples. I think it was knowing the facts that brought my grades up in the exams as before I wasn't uising too many. Also, I didn't waste any time.

Yes, Birmingham is definitely up there. It's also relatively near to me, so I'll have to consider that for a Law degree or something.

The requirements for pretty much mainstream universities are rather demanding, I mean, they expect the same entry qualifications as Oxford - and in some cases, higher!