Which A-Level should I drop next year?

At AS, i'm currently doing maths, chemistry, biology and business. Maths, chemistry and business I'm okay with, but biology - my god i'm just terrible at it. For my Jan AS exams I got pretty bad results, though I'm confident I will do much better in the resits coming soon.

For uni, I was thinking of doing Pharmacy/pharmacology or Chemistry with Mathematics. Since Pharmacy/pharmacology both include biology, I'm looking more towards doing Chemistry with Mathematics or chemical engineering.

So which subject do I drop next year? Or do I carry on with all 4 subjects? Biology is obviously the more respectful one compared to business but I don't think I'll be able to even get a B in biology at A2 whereas in business that is more likely.

Hi there,

I was in a relatively similar position in my AS year, having taken Maths, Chemistry, History and RS, with me hating Chemistry. At the time I was picking between Philosophy, Maths and Medicine. As I was undecided when it came to choosing which subject to drop, I ended up dropping none of them, and hating Chemistry and getting a D in it (with A*AA in the other three), which I really regret, on the grounds that when I was unsure of what to do, Medicine seemed like the most obvious choice, as it was a guaranteed career path which would also help people. When I was applying with my predicted grades, I had the choice to apply for Medicine (I was predicted an A/B) or Philosophy (I ended up applying first time for philosophy, then reapplying for theology, which I realised was the subject that really interested me ). I reasoned that all Medicine degrees had Chemistry (+ one science, which Maths counted as) as a required A-Level for a reason, and it was probably because Chemistry is a very important part of the degree. Now I would assume that the same is true for pharmacology/pharmacy with regards to Biology, and if you really are terrible at it then I would strongly advise against any degree that says you should do it, on the grounds that you won't enjoy your degree and won't get a good result, nor will you learn much.

Well looking at the pharmacy and pharmacology courses on UCL, it says i need AAB in Chemistry + either bio/maths/phys so i'm okay here whereas at King's I'd need AAB with Chemistry and Biology included. I'm assuming the majority of pharm courses require biology then, so it's not looking too good for me

The Chemistry with Maths courses look okay though, need ABB with maths and chem included.

For those who are saying drop business, I reckon in reality I would get a C in biology at A2 which kinda excludes me off the majority of courses as they ask for ABB at the least

At AS, i'm currently doing maths, chemistry, biology and business. Maths, chemistry and business I'm okay with, but biology - my god i'm just terrible at it. For my Jan AS exams I got pretty bad results, though I'm confident I will do much better in the resits coming soon.

For uni, I was thinking of doing Pharmacy/pharmacology or Chemistry with Mathematics. Since Pharmacy/pharmacology both include biology, I'm looking more towards doing Chemistry with Mathematics or chemical engineering.

So which subject do I drop next year? Or do I carry on with all 4 subjects? Biology is obviously the more respectful one compared to business but I don't think I'll be able to even get a B in biology at A2 whereas in business that is more likely.