I have been thinking a lot about this. It's almost 5 years since I chose my options, and I will be going into the third year of a history degree.
I did History, Maths, Physics and Further Maths at AS Level, and I dropped Further Maths at the end of Year 12.
If I were to turn the clock back I would have still done History, Maths, but dropped Physics and Further Maths for English and Government and Politics or something. Or, kept History, Maths and Physics, and swapped English for Further Maths, so that my choices were split 50/50.
Most of all, I just wished that I was able to get a better score in Physics. I loved Physics, but the ISA and the multiple choice exam in Unit 4 screwed me over. At the time, I chose Further Maths because I got a A* at GCSE, and thought it would be good, but well, that didn't work out.
I also remember that at the time, since I got an A in GCSE French, that I wanted to take it to A-Level. It would have been nice to continue learning another language, although, maybe I wouldn't have taken it to A-Level considering some of the other choices.
If I was able to, I might have chosen Geography in addition to History. I liked it at KS3, and did very well, but ultimately chose History at GCSE over Geography, although, I wish I took both. If there was a way to do Geography at A-Level without doing it at GCSE, it would have been a great subject to study. Especially, with the emphasis on human geography, which would have allowed to put the History into a greater geo-societal context.
But, as you can probably tell by my choices, History was the subject that I was expecting to drop. I'm so glad that I chose History as my path and not Physics, though. Don't get me wrong, I loved History at GCSE, but I don't recall at the time thinking that it could be my eventual career path. Now, I'm just happy to do something I love, and learn. Who knows where it may take me, but that's the beauty of studying History.
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