How is A-Level Chemistry like?

Was not that great at Chemistry at GCSE's, I did Triple science and had little motivation though it might have been due to my crappy teacher who literally taught us nothing except give us worksheets to do - making Chemistry look quite boring. But I want to pursue a scientific career like Bio-medical and heard Chemistry is important.

Is it more interesting at A-Level or will it be a challenge if done without motivation or work ethic?

Honestly A-level Chemistry is really hard, I have friends who got and A* at gcse who got D at A-level with a lot of revision.

I fortunately had a good teacher who i could go to at lunchtimes for help and ran revision sessions. I also enjoy chemistry which motivated me to study. You definitely need a good work ethic to study A-level Chemistry, but also any other A-level.

It is definitely worth looking at university requirements for any course you are interested in as a lot of Bio-medical courses do require chemistry and if you don't like chemistry that may be an indication that the university course is not for you.

Was not that great at Chemistry at GCSE's, I did Triple science and had little motivation though it might have been due to my crappy teacher who literally taught us nothing except give us worksheets to do - making Chemistry look quite boring. But I want to pursue a scientific career like Bio-medical and heard Chemistry is important.

Is it more interesting at A-Level or will it be a challenge if done without motivation or work ethic?

A D with a lot of revision? Now that is scary.
I would not say I dislike Chemistry, it's just that the way I've been taught at GCSE has not been that favorable in terms of how exciting it is and the practicals were quite tedious due to our school being really unorganized. Though I was hoping I would like it better if I put in the work, as I usually 'dislike' subjects that I'm not that good at and if I really did work my socks off being interested would just come with it.

I've seen the requirements for the top uni's and they're along the lines of AAA or AAB, which is not too hard I guess but I'm just scared that Chemistry might weigh me down because of how difficult it's said to be.

Was not that great at Chemistry at GCSE's, I did Triple science and had little motivation though it might have been due to my crappy teacher who literally taught us nothing except give us worksheets to do - making Chemistry look quite boring. But I want to pursue a scientific career like Bio-medical and heard Chemistry is important.

Is it more interesting at A-Level or will it be a challenge if done without motivation or work ethic?

Was not that great at Chemistry at GCSE's, I did Triple science and had little motivation though it might have been due to my crappy teacher who literally taught us nothing except give us worksheets to do - making Chemistry look quite boring. But I want to pursue a scientific career like Bio-medical and heard Chemistry is important.

Is it more interesting at A-Level or will it be a challenge if done without motivation or work ethic?

I'm not an expert on this but i believe that with any subject you do at A-Level or GCSE, with any university course you choose you will always need a strong work ethic to succeed, and the further you go on with your education the stronger it is going to need to be. Even without any ambition for the subject/course a strong work ethic is always crucial & necessary. Though with that said you have to appreciate that having an ambition for Chemistry compliments work ethic. It's easier to motivate yourself to actually do the work you need to do to get the grade you want, it is very difficult to do so if you lack motivation. For example i want to do a Computer Science course and i am mostly interested in the programming aspects of it. I chose Economics at A-Level and felt that it didn't coincide with my interests, cause of a lack of motivation i ended up with a U. On the other hand i have a brother who got an A in economics at AS Level but from my perception had barely any motivation to do it. Point being it goes both ways, you can be uninspired to do the subject but still maintain a strong work ethic or you could be uninspired and completely tarnish it. Your education is entirely individualistic so it's entirely up to you to get the grade(s) you want.


Anyway sorry about the rant. Chemistry is definitely complicated when you get to A-Level, as a science i think that is expected, but especially interesting, more so when you do your own research into it. You start to learn about the minor aspects of Quantum Mechanics, some Thermodynamics, some Infra Red Spectroscopy etc, which i personally found interesting. About 7 people took chemistry (All who had A's and A*'s at GCSE) out of about 40 in my class and by mocks we all pretty much ended up with D's and C's. By the actual exam period i moved from a C to a B (79% to be exact which was 1% of the A, so i would basically say i got an A after my AS Level Exam ), as long as you work hard at A-Level and don't doubt yourself (in my opinion that is the greatest threat to your education) you could get a D at GCSE and get an A/A* and vice versa it is always up to you. I feel that Chemistry is closely related to Biology so i think you will undoubtedly find something that interests you. If you don't mind me asking what subjects are you considering?

I'm not an expert on this but i believe that with any subject you do at A-Level or GCSE, with any university course you choose you will always need a strong work ethic to succeed, and the further you go on with your education the stronger it is going to need to be. Even without any ambition for the subject/course a strong work ethic is always crucial & necessary. Though with that said you have to appreciate that having an ambition for Chemistry compliments work ethic. It's easier to motivate yourself to actually do the work you need to do to get the grade you want, it is very difficult to do so if you lack motivation. For example i want to do a Computer Science course and i am mostly interested in the programming aspects of it. I chose Economics at A-Level and felt that it didn't coincide with my interests, cause of a lack of motivation i ended up with a U. On the other hand i have a brother who got an A in economics at AS Level but from my perception had barely any motivation to do it. Point being it goes both ways, you can be uninspired to do the subject but still maintain a strong work ethic or you could be uninspired and completely tarnish it. Your education is entirely individualistic so it's entirely up to you to get the grade(s) you want.


Anyway sorry about the rant. Chemistry is definitely complicated when you get to A-Level, as a science i think that is expected, but especially interesting, more so when you do your own research into it. You start to learn about the minor aspects of Quantum Mechanics, some Thermodynamics, some Infra Red Spectroscopy etc, which i personally found interesting. About 7 people took chemistry (All who had A's and A*'s at GCSE) out of about 40 in my class and by mocks we all pretty much ended up with D's and C's. By the actual exam period i moved from a C to a B (79% to be exact which was 1% of the A, so i would basically say i got an A after my AS Level Exam ), as long as you work hard at A-Level and don't doubt yourself (in my opinion that is the greatest threat to your education) you could get a D at GCSE and get an A/A* and vice versa it is always up to you. I feel that Chemistry is closely related to Biology so i think you will undoubtedly find something that interests you. If you don't mind me asking what subjects are you considering?