5 A Levels?

Hi everybody,

I will be starting my A Levels this September and have been thinking about the following:

Maths
Further Maths
Physics
Biology
Chemistry

I was wondering if anyone who has taken five A Levels regrets it and if anyone had any advice for me.

Thanks

Hi everybody,

I will be starting my A Levels this September and have been thinking about the following:

Maths
Further Maths
Physics
Biology
Chemistry

I was wondering if anyone who has taken five A Levels regrets it and if anyone had any advice for me.

Thanks

Wow. That's amazing! It must be a great feeling to know that all of your hard work paid off. What are you studying at Uni?

I'm hoping to do 5, also including maths and further maths. As people in my school who are doing further maths do the full A Level in Year 12, it's only four A Levels in year 13 so is slightly more manageable than 5 A Levels taken in Year 13.

Obviously it's still a risk, and if you REALLY want to do all of those subjects, you need to work put if it's a risk you're willing to take. If you think you'll regret not trying to do five, it might be better to start out with five, knowing that you can drop one if you need to.

If you haven't already, you might want to ask someone at your school who knows how you're doing and see what they think - personally, my head of year and a couple of teachers I've mentioned it to think I would be capable of doing 5 (while all my friends think I'm crazy).

False. You are not exactly doing 4 A levels worth of work in year 13, as the amount of FM work you do is double what someone doing just A2 level Maths is doing, in order to complete the full FM A level in a single year. So you are effectively doing 5 A levels worth of work still.

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Thanks everyone for your advice!

At my School Further Maths takes up two options (making it 5 overall).
Chemistry is my least favorite, so I think I'll be removing that one. (Plus I only got an A at GCSE last year)

It's not entirely false - I said slightly more manageable, as in, you have exams for four A Levels to take. It is obviously still going to be a lot of work but if you did 5 linear A Levels, taking all your exams at the end of Year 13, it would be a lot more work leading up to exams, and more exams than this arrangement.

I do 5 A levels.

I don't regret it however It would be nice to have time when I'm not studying. Only take it on if you are prepared to spend the whole year working hard!

I wouldn't recommend doing four subjects as you will likely struggle to do all of the work - it is very hard going. Also, the ones you are thinking about are particularly demanding so you should be very sure that you want to do them and are passionate about science. This is fine if you see yourself going down this career path but not if you are unsure what you want to do in later years. May I suggest that you take a more creative subject as this could give you a break in-between science and can also be very rewarding.

Im in a similar situation to you in that I also wish to do 5 A Levels , but apparently you should try to include one essay based subject in your options to show depth in your skills, especially if you intend to do 5. Like I want to do History, French, Economics, Politics and Maths. I got told to switch Eng Lit for Maths to show that I have a range of skills but idk. If you can handle a lot of work then 5 should be good but otherwise I think it might prove to be quite difficult.

It's great to hear that someone else is in a similar situation!
That's interesting about taking an essay based subject - I'm awful at English and didn't take History at GCSE level, essay based subjects aren't really my thing. Good luck with your choices!

3 A-Levels is killing me, I don't understand how people can do more

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Do not do it if you want a life outside studying.

If you do it right you can have a life while staying on track.