A level Economics or Psychology?

So if anyone can help me chose which one I should do it would be much appreciated!

I did both Psychology + Economics (different exam board for econ but very similar syllabus)

With psychology it was definitely the more interesting subject than econ (even though i plan to study econ at uni >.<)
The exam also is much much easier than economics. With psycho, the questions at AS are very very prescriptive, so you won't really get much 'unexpected' sort of questions like you do in sciences & maths. I guess your induction student is kind of right. However there is a lot of memorising indeed. Dates aren't necessary to remember (helps some people though) however you basically have to memorise / able to regurgitate:

1. Theories / explanations of stuff - This is the really interesting bit
2. Psychology studies + supporting / against it - Tedious, but manageable.
3. Studies pros / cons - Much more mechanical and is blaggable once you get the hang of it

Psychology maybe seen as less respected, but TSR tends to overemphasise this sort of stuff. Its a perfectly fine subject to take, and is quite common among medics, as an AS and A2.

In economics, the graphs really arent as complicated as you think they are. Once you start learning the stuff, its actually fairly straight forward ! But yes there are quite a lot of keywords and usually in the exam they make you define it - sometimes they throw nasty ones which arent in the book Q.Q. However AS is generally very straight forward compared to A2 which focuses a lot more on long essays (theres multi choice in AS and A2 for your board i think, just less at A2). I personally found more Economics help videos on youtube than psycho, though they were mainly American (same topics though).

I would say Psycho is A LOT more work than economics, which is more about whether you can understand the concepts and apply it to different sort of questions. Easier exam is definetly psycho, plus a lot lower grade boundaries. If you have a good teacher, psycho will be very straight forward. Theres probably more help on psychology in terms of online resources (everybody learns the same stuff at AS for AQA) and for TSR help.

If need any more specific / detailed answers, feel free to ask!

Thank you so much! Seeing as you did both of them which one would you recommend me taking seeing as finance is my back up plan? Which subject do you think you'll get a higher grade in? What other subjects did you pick? And how did you revise for both psychology and economics and which one was the hardest to revise for?

Well if you are thinking about courses like economics, accounting+finance etc, your current 3 subjects will easily get you into the vast majority of unis since you only really need maths.

I did Maths, econ, psychology and in AS got BAA (done epq too but no idea what grade ill get) - economics was my strongest (after the entire AS set got remarked) but only by a couple of UMS. I scraped an A in the Unit 1 of psycho due to poor exam technique. But we did it in January, so we were slightly more rushed. Unit 2 of psychology i got 93 ums so much better - Econ was more balanced of 86 ish if you wanted to know that

Revising economics, i basically looked back at the homework essays we were set and with the textbook made brief essay plans on each sub topic e.g. essay plan on how econ growth can be achieved, benefits of econ growth, conseq's etc. Psychology wise, most people tended to write / type out essays of each topic. I personally typed it out and broke each 'section' out to bullet points. From then i just read it over / occasionally wrote some stuff / occasionally used cue cards.

Hardest to revise for hmmm..... Well i would say economics, because the examiners can throw so much stuff at you in the exam which can really throw you off. E.g. I recall the 'economic growth' mini topic having something like 6+ possible topics - and when you have something like 10-15 (?) topics to revise for AS, it can be slightly nerve wrecking - Its probably why i think i did crud in Economics this year. I looked at both exam questions and thought 'oh crapppp' and basically had to blag a lot of it.

Psychology isnt necessarily hard, i mean if you have a decent teacher, chances are they will basically spoon feed all you need to know for the exam with sheets from which you make more concise. If you manage to make model answers from the beginning, you will be fine (though easier said than done). If you write an essay for each topic in psycho, i would probably go as far to say NOTHING in the exam will make think 'oh god wtf do i write'

AS economics is quite nice but A2 is ughhh, a very big step. AS and A2 psychology have very similar amounts of content you need to memorise, a lot more predictable content but takes a lot more time to actually revise. I probably spent 3x (guessing) more time revising psychology than economics.

Ohhh that makes things so much clearer now I'm guessing the B was in maths? Im taking maths as well for Alevels and would want to know if there is a big step from GCSE? Also what are your career plans

I dont think the step up is that baaad for maths. The first unit you do is called Core 1 and 70% of the it will be Gcse A/A* sort of stuff so things like factorising, indices, graph transformations etc will reappear. The only 'new' stuff i suppose would be intergration, differentiation (both fairly straight forward for C1) and maybe coordinate geometry (very easy once you understand the language of the questions). Core 2 is slightly more tricky, but not massively harder than C1 - the exam can catch you out though !

You also do applied modules, usualyl Stats or Mechanics. If you suck / detested physics like i did, mechanics will be very dull - however you will eventually understand it since questions are usually the same every year

Hopefully going to study economics at uni but not sure what ill do after D: - Did a bit of work experience at a bank and couldn't see myself working there for many many years !

Hi,I went through your messages and came across that you mentioned economics AS is fine but A2 is uhgg.I have heard alot that A2 economics is very tough so can you please outline whats the toughest thing in A2.I started facing difficulties while studying psychology and it seemed scientific to me therefore willing to drop it.I score A in economics in my olevels and thought about taking economics in Alevels multiple times but i am really afraid by what i heard about its difficulty level in A2 so would highly appreciate if u outline the difficulties in A2

Hi,I went through your messages and came across that you mentioned economics AS is fine but A2 is uhgg.I have heard alot that A2 economics is very tough so can you please outline whats the toughest thing in A2.I started facing difficulties while studying psychology and it seemed scientific to me therefore willing to drop it.I score A in economics in my olevels and thought about taking economics in Alevels multiple times but i am really afraid by what i heard about its difficulty level in A2 so would highly appreciate if u outline the difficulties in A2