Rank your A-Levels in terms of;- Difficulty-Enjoyment-Respectability-Most relevant to future prospects For me; Difficulty: 1) Maths 2) English language 3) Economics Enjoyment: 1) Economics 2) English language 3) Maths Respectability: 1) Maths 2) Economics 3) English language Prospects:1) Economics 2) Maths 3) English language
Why? I can understand why people may think Maths is more respectable, but why exactly?
A level Maths is a harder subject. Also with prospects, it's required for a lot of uni courses as well e.g. engineering, physics, chemistry,...economics. Don't know of a course that requires A level Economics.
A level Maths is a harder subject. Also with prospects, it's required for a lot of uni courses as well e.g. engineering, physics, chemistry,...economics. Don't know of a course that requires A level Economics.
Maths is harder, i said that in my post . Doesn't mean its more respectable.
As for prospects i'm hoping to do economics at University, therefore nothing is more relevant to my prospects than ..well.. economics.
I can understand why some see maths as being more respectable due to it being harder, but the simple fact is, economics is more relevant to the real world, unless you go on to do engineering, computing, or teach maths itself, Maths has very little relevance to real life whatsoever, especially some of the extremes they require you to learn at A-level, with no context whatsoever, you don't learn why you are doing it, you just learn it. Therefore i see it as less respectable.
Maths is harder, i said that in my post . Doesn't mean its more respectable.
As for prospects i'm hoping to do economics at University, therefore nothing is more relevant to my prospects than ..well.. economics.
I can understand why some see maths as being more respectable due to it being harder, but the simple fact is, economics is more relevant to the real world, unless you go on to do engineering, computing, or teach maths itself, Maths has very little relevance to real life whatsoever, especially some of the extremes they require you to learn at A-level, with no context whatsoever, you don't learn why you are doing it, you just learn it. Therefore i see it as less respectable.
From what I have heard about economics at uni, it's very much different to A level and a lot of what was learnt at A level is simplified or not really touched upon.
" Maths has very little relevance to real life whatsoever "
Can't tell if you're being serious, especially since you want to study economics.
From what I have heard about economics at uni, it's very much different to A level and a lot of what was learnt at A level is simplified or not really touched upon.
" Maths has very little relevance to real life whatsoever "
Can't tell if you're being serious, especially since you want to study economics.
By 'real life' i mean outside of education. If you start bringing up Pythagoras theorem at the dinner table, you won't make many friends. Of course, in many fields, maths is an essential tool, but its always supplementary to other subjects, on its own, its pointless.
By 'real life' i mean outside of education. If you start bringing up Pythagoras theorem at the dinner table, you won't make many friends. Of course, in many fields, maths is an essential tool, but its always supplementary to other subjects, on its own, its pointless.
What about engineering and even Chemistry and Biological fields? Maths is much more important than you think.