A-Levels you regretted taking.

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English Lit. Wish I'd have carried on with French.

Greg1989

General studies! I didnt want to do it before, and besides no one cares you did it so whats the point! but i went to a school where if your grades were predicted high enough elsewhere you automatically got put in for the exam (not even like we got taught for it which says a lot about how easy it is but a waste of time!) :/

**** you aqa biology

Art AND French

I wish I had taken Maths and Computing, both would have been more relevant to my course.

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Implo

This is really un-encouraging for me (I'm in year 11) :s-smilie:

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Clip

All of them, Chemistry, Physics and Biology. Hated it from start to finish.

Given the choice again - I'd go with Latin, History and Classics.

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Jadelyndsey

Subject regret taking: Psychology
Subject I find difficult: Biology

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kirsty142

Business and ICT. Hated them both. Now wish I'd taken literature and kept up film studies. Yes film's a soft subject, but at least I was interested in it.

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Jack-

Original post by multiplexing-gamer

What subject did you find rigorously difficult.
Might it be anything from Chemistry, Physics or even Maths!

Physics; not because it's hard, nor because I don't like it.

Because we're on the AQA Physics B: Physics In Context course. I'd say it a bit worse than abso-****ing-lute ****ing ****; probably the most ****ing **** piece of **** ever ****ing created by any ****ing ****head ****wit in the history of the Universe, and that is a rather long time.

Plus, one teacher is a clueless muppet, who once talk all lesson about % errors, spouting rubbish like

percentage\ error=\frac{total error}{100}*actual \ error

, though I must say it was rather funny telling him at the end that 'it looks a bit different in the book, sir'. The other teacher is a recent Durham graduate, so is a bit inexperienced and often makes us do pointless tasks that really serve no purpose whatsoever (eg 'cutting out and sticking in the right order').

The course itself is awful. Its only about 50% physics, and 50% applied stuff, like 'reasons why somebody would want A instead of B' or the 'impact of [whatever] on the local community'. I mean what is this, geography?

Now, had we done AQA Physics A, then I would not be making this post, because Physics A looks roughly

2\sqrt{\sqrt{{\pi}(\frac{m_e}{h})}}

% better than our course.

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J.tytler

Fine Art

French, Maths, Physics are all great but Art needs to GTFO

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thecookiemonster

Original post by dhillon1

history. oh god learning about the rise of the labour party and how the liberals introduced many social reforms that changed the british economy in the early 1900s bored me to death. i would rather jump off a building and hope to catch my eyelid on a nail than sit through that agen

oh wow im exactly the same haha

Sociologyyyy

Physics. Or should I say OCR B Advancing physics.
GO **** YOURSELF OCR B.

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srudland8

PE, it is not challenging enough and find myself getting demotivated and not working as hard as i should. i regret not taking history and philosophy and ethics. i took the easy way out and regretting it massively!

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alexthomas93

History. Enjoyed it and did really well at GCSE. Took it for A-level as a 'essay' subject in an attempt to show I had a bit more depth beyond the other subjects I took (maths, further maths and physics, which I all love). Regret it loads now, subject is difficult and my Russian History teacher is crap. Thankfully get to drop it at the end of the year though :biggrin:

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Lumen

Original post by Greg1989

I ended up in a similar situation. If you did well enough in your GCSEs you had to do Critical Thinking at AS. The whole subject was just common sense, you learned absolutely nothing new and yet it took up 3 hours a week (could've used those free periods!). Also, we had to do a compulsory ICT course which meant spending 1 and a half hours on a Friday morning looking at spreadsheets. It also meant I had seven subjects on my timetable instead of five.

I was doing English Lit, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Russian, Critical Thinking and ICT as well as that 'extended project' thing - so much stress. I felt like: :puppyeyes:

Not really a regret, more of a rant. :wink:

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Sarky.

Original post by TimesChanging

Physics. Or should I say OCR B Advancing physics.
GO **** YOURSELF OCR B.

Same situation here dude. Hating it right now, got 2 resits with it coming up >.>. Could've been worse, I almost had 3.

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Wenger

I regret maths so much, but I don't regret being able to apply for economics at russell group universities, which require maths as a pre-requisite.

History is great at AS, a real bind in A2, would swap it for Geography.

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j_09

Wish I hadn't taken history. Found it fun and easy in GCSE but I'm struggling so much at A-level with exam technique ... I just don't get it these days.