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Chemistry or biology for a physics career?

I do maths, physics, chemistry and biology for as. Which one should I drop? I cant drop maths or physics obviously because I want to be a physicist.

I enjoy biology more than chemistry but I am told that chemistry is more useful.

Edit: I am planning to specialise in particle physics or astrophysics. Thanks for the replies, all good so far :smile:
(edited 13 years ago)
I would agree chemistry is more useful
Original post by BigDanny
I do maths, physics, chemistry and biology for as. Which one should I drop? I cant drop maths or physics obviously because I want to be a physicist.

I enjoy biology more than chemistry but I am told that chemistry is more useful.


Well Chemisty probably would be more useful but if you enjoy biology more take that. I suppose the best way to look at it is what grades you get in AS and which you think you'll do better in next year.
I would carry on with Chemistry- at A2 level you do some physical chem which is actually quite interesting.
Original post by BigDanny

Original post by BigDanny
I do maths, physics, chemistry and biology for as. Which one should I drop? I cant drop maths or physics obviously because I want to be a physicist.

I enjoy biology more than chemistry but I am told that chemistry is more useful.


Drop Biology and take up Further Maths AS?
Yeah I was going to recommend further maths for sure! Complex numbers and matrices come up all the time in modern physics. Although if you're interested in a particular field in physics i.e biomechanics or medical physics then keep up biology. Universities will probably prefer further maths because the maths will get hella complicated but they see biology as a subject that can be learnt from scratch in detail (with just the relevant parts for the situation).

Also FP1 is quite nice once you've done C1 and C2 and if you don't do mechanics modules in regular maths then M1 and M2 will be good practise too!
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Susanne839
Drop biology - chemistry is better, more fun and more relevent to physics. Also then you won't look like a biologist :P
But at the end of the day its up to you :biggrin:
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A2 Chem is pretty interesting and relates better to physics. It won't make a huge amount of difference though.

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