Is Chemistry A level really THAT difficult?

Let me expand on my original post then. If I choose Chemistry A level, I will be doing it alongside Maths, Further Maths, and Physics. Currently, I find those subjects (at GCSE!), including Chemistry, far too easy. They're nowhere near challenging enough.

However, I'm also not the sort of person who enjoys spending many hours at home learning facts. I prefer figuring out how things work, and applying logic rather than regurgitating facts that I have been taught. In that sense, I think very much like a mathematician.

I hope that gives people a clearer grounding upon which to base their answers.

Thanks

Really? Physics is just the sort of subject I'm looking forward to, so that I can leave GCSE behind me .

lol. I found Physics the easiest and most interesting out of my A levels.

Yeah, you get to the big-boy stuff in Physics in AS. You get to learn about Quantum Physics, which blows your mind. Then at A2, you do a lot of stuff on Fields (electric and magnetic) and how they interact with themselves and one another, you do some Particle Physics, Cosmology, Astrophysics...

You do what you've done before, except this time, you do it right.

Care to tutor me?

lol, I can't really remember any of it!
My memory is useless anyway, so someone I haven't even looked at for 3 years - I have no chance!
I think my Physics teacher helped a lot though. She was pretty awesome, and easily one of the best teachers I ever had in school / sixth form .

Well, judge for yourself by having a look at this website (which, by the way, is the only good teaching/revision website for any subject which I am aware of other than thephysicsclassroom): http://www.chemguide.co.uk/.

I was considering taking chemistry for A level, and I learned most of the atoms and bonding stuff a few months ago before deciding that I wanted to take music instead. It didn't strike me as very difficult, but I gather that the hard part is organic chemistry, which I despise.

I LIVED on that website when I was doing Chemistry... and I still sucked.

I don't think GCSE double science adequately prepares you for Chemistry. Or at least it didn't for me and that was with additional reading before I started Chemistry.
I got 2 As in Science, both a couple of marks from A*s and I ended up with an E at AS Chem and I've honestly never worked so hard! Guess I just don't have the aptitude for higher level science!

Hard core biology there

Yes quite hard, but it can be done. The good thing is if you happen to be on edexcel, they ISA's they provide do push your grade up incase you slip on the others. But like any other subject, just revise, stay organised and ask the teachers for help! then you shud be fine

Well, I'm doing Triple Science, and have got 100 UMS so far in core modules, and 100/100/95 in my ISAs (the 95 was in Biology, which I kind of fail at) - not that Triple Science is a lot more difficult than Double Award; there's just more content.

Which part of Chemistry is the massive gap between GCSE and A level mainly in?

Edit: And so far I have received the impression that people who might not necessarily excel at Chemistry are drawn into doing it by inflated GCSE grades. Is this true?

Some people I've met seem to find Chemistry very difficult, and say it's their most difficult A level by far.

I know it's probably a lot harder than GCSE Chemistry (though to be honest you don't really need to understand Chemistry to do well at GCSE level), but as long as you think logically, and apply yourself in lessons, is the workload greater than Modern Foreign Languages, or Physics, for example?

I would simply like to attain a better understanding of A levels so that I can base my decision to change them or keep them as they are upon facts rather than superficial, anecdotal evidence.

Thanks