Help me with a level choices!! Geography, maths and...??

Do you/have you done any of Economics, Chemistry or Biology at A-Level? (sorry don't know if there is a way to tag people?) which are the most difficult or have the biggest step up from gcse ?

And so what you are suggesting is Maths, Geography, economics and then one of those sciences?

Thanks

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I didn't post previously but I did geography, biology and maths (+further maths) at A-Level and while people always told me it was an obscure combination, I thought it worked well! Biology probably has the biggest step up because there is a greater amount of info to memorise (I was on AQA board). Maths, at least on Edexcel, has quite a minimal step up if you are already an A/A* student. The first module is mostly recap of GCSE topics but does introduce calculus at the end as well.

I didn't go on to study geography at uni (I'm not at university at all) but I know a number of people that did, and they all took completely different subjects. I think that your proposed subjects would be absolutely fine for the majority of courses. Best of luck with your choices, feel free to ask me anything more about the A-levels I took

Thanks! So do you think they complement each other? And I actually never considered further maths? I struggled to see the differences between it and just maths at our open evening... What sort of stuff do you study for each? Is further maths just the same difficulty and more modules or is it more different? Thanks

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Biology and Chemistry are said to go well together

Hi!

Currently in the process of choosing my A-Level subjects and am a bit clueless (they have to be handed in by February 10th)

I know I want to do a Geography degree, and so Geography is an obvious choice. I am also going to do Maths, because I really enjoy it and it is one of the subjects I perform best at. But beyond those two is where the problems start. I was originally considering Business Studies and Travel&Tourism as my third and fourth subjects, Business Studies because it is a good all rounder and Travel because I hope to be a Geography teacher one day and think it would complement what I would be expected to teach (most geography teachers at my school also teach travel.) I am now thinking I shouldn't take these subjects since they are considered 'soft' and wouldn't do me any favours when applying for University.

I do economics at GCSE but find it one of the more challenging subjects I study and so don't think I would cope with it at A-Level.

I am considering Chemistry and Biology but have some questions. Do you struggle with them at A-Level? Do they complement each other? What are some of the topics you study?

My predicted GCSE grades for all of the subjects I mentioned:

Maths - A* (recently did mock papers and was well into a* overall)
Geography - A*
Business - A
Economics - A
Chemistry/Biology - we only get predicted grades for science, additional and further additional, not for each science (biology, chemistry, physics.) We sat the first and I got an A overall, and am predicted the same for the other 2 modules.

So the real questions I am asking are : which subjects are suitable to allow me to do a Geography degree? Any recommendations of things I haven't mentioned? And how difficult are all of the subjects? In particular biology and chemistry? And what is some of the content/topics for these subjects?

Even if you could answer one of these it would be great, I would love to hear about your experience.

Thanks!!

Purely because I didn't realise you could do it that way! *sits down to re - evaluate life plans*

English literature isn't my strongest, I think I am going to get a B at gcse and I don't enjoy it so that is another reason not to take it -.-

What sort of content is in biology A level?

And the reason for not doing travel is that from what I can see, a lot of universities only want it as the fourth subject, and I really want all 4 to be worthy of counting in my 3 incase I perform badly in one!