The 5th and 6th Year Choices Thread

All at Higher:

French, Maths, Biology, Chemistry and Psychology



Quite looking forward to French and Biology... Dreading Maths! How did other people find these Highers? x

All at Higher:

French, Maths, Biology, Chemistry and Psychology



Quite looking forward to French and Biology... Dreading Maths! How did other people find these Highers? x

Maths is fine, as long as you do plenty of past papers. Biology on the other hand is an absolute bitch. It has twice as much to remember as any of the other sciences (believe me, I know) and you need all of it. Plus, they make up their own stupid rules about graphs and are ridiculously fussy about the wording of answers, unlike my beloved Chemistry. My friend even made up a poem about Biology. Here it is.

Oh, Biology, how do I loathe thee?
Let me count the ways.
Thou make me feel stupid
and insignificant
and small!

Worst subject ever, yet I'm doing it for Advanced Higher because the human biology parts are great, I just wish my school did Human Biology instead of normal Biology with their stupid plants and trees And I want to do Pharmacy so pretty much a requirement.

And as for Chemistry...one of the best subjects you will ever do. Simple as. If French is anything like German then that'll also be great fun. You can watch films in French and call it revision. I use this as an excuse to watch Monty Python (which I plan to do before the final next week, since it's in the afternoon. Good listening practice) but yeah, it's really good fun.

I've been looking for some way to express my hatred for Biology and why exactly I hate it and I do believe you've hit the nail on the head there.

It's amazing, I love my friend, she's great at that stuff. First thing I'm going to write on my AH folder next year. I tried to do one based on Shakespeares "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun..." one, but Biology was being contrary as always and I couldn't make it fit. Stupid, stupid subject, highly annoying teacher. It's the graphs I hate most. Why can't they follow the same goddam rules as every other science? It's not difficult!

"Look at this experiment! Look at this graph of results! WHAT'S GOING ON?!"
I don't know

Should probably point out that I'm doing...

AH Biology
AH Maths
AH Chemistry
H History
And I'll be keeping up with German in my spare time because there's no way I'm letting that outta my life. It's breaking my heart to be dropping English though. *sob sob* I want to do Pharmacy at Bath, Cardiff, UEA, Strathclyde and maybe RGU or Kent as a nice one with lower entry requirements that won't kill me.

Seems rather a heavy workload for pharmacy? Could you get away with doing less?

Well, Bath and Cardiff both want three advanced highers, AAB or ABB (if I'm lucky) and I think UEA does too. Chemistry and at least one other science. I know it seems ridiculous, RGU and Strathclyde are much lower, but I have to be able to compete with the applicants to the uni's down South because only two uni's do Pharmacy up here and I wouldn't feel comfortable only applying to two universities. And as for Higher History, if I didn't do something that involved a lot of writing I think I'd go mad, it's bad enough that I'm not doing English.

Oh I'm sure you will cope I was just wondering.

English unis do expect Scottish applicants to do much better in 6th year. Which of those would be your 'first choice'? If it is Strathclyde or RGU then maybe only choosing 2 unis would cut out a lot of bother. Cheaper too Just a thought.

Bath or Cardiff. I really like the look of the course in Bath, and the city as well. And if I'm going to be there for four years I'd better like where I'm living. Yeah, my dad nearly fainted when I told him the course was four years, but he's a bit of a uni snob so the idea of me going to a Russell Group uni means he's willing to pay the ridiculous fees. So much for financial independence. Might go to Strathclyde though. All depends on where I get offers from really.