Are A Levels harder than a degree?

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We covered my two year a level course in two hour uni lecture yesterday 😂😂😂

Last summer, I went to the University of Southampton, and they told me that degrees are slightly easier than A-levels

The reason being is that the difference between A-levels and degrees is that during a degree, you have a lot less help from teachers reminding you of deadlines, homework, etc. The hardest part about a degree is adapting to this dramatic change in learning and support.

if you can cope with that, the university told me, you will often find a degree easier (and more fun) than A-levels, although it does depend on the subject you are planning to study at degree level...

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r.mehtaa

Is an Economics Degree harder than an Economics A Level?

Reply 23

sunshine774

Thank you very much and good luck to you too!x :wink:

Reply 24

sunshine774

Original post by r.mehtaa

Is an Economics Degree harder than an Economics A Level?

Are you doing economics a level? :smile:

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sunshine774

Original post by Cocopops121

We covered my two year a level course in two hour uni lecture yesterday 😂😂😂

Which degree are you doing? :smile:

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r.mehtaa

Original post by sunshine774

Are you doing economics a level? :smile:

yes

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sunshine774

Original post by r.mehtaa

yes

Oh so am I and I am really enjoying it! :smile:

I also want to do economics as a degree (I assume from your first post you want to as well...) :smile:

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r.mehtaa

Original post by sunshine774

Oh so am I and I am really enjoying it! :smile:

I also want to do economics as a degree (I assume from your first post you want to as well...) :smile:

Same, absolutely love the A Level. I also want to take Economics (and maybe German as well) as a degree.

Reply 29

beautifulbigmacs

I think A levels are harder than a degree. There's so much riding on A levels and the hoops you have to jump through are very specific. Even at masters level, I still found A level more stressful in comparison.

Reply 30

the bear

but the Oral would be quite challenging tho'

:dontknow:

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username1539513

Certainly not because especially in STEM subjects you have to be good at a multitude of things to get the high marks; I can't speak for other subjects but in chemistry you need to be top at both english and maths in order to get the high marks because of essays etc

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sunshine774

Original post by r.mehtaa

Same, absolutely love the A Level. I also want to take Economics (and maybe German as well) as a degree.

Nice!

Doing german as a degree sounds very interesting... :smile:

Reply 33

Dasun Sirimewan

Original post by Saliency

It depends on your learning style. The structure of A-levels really didn't fit well for me as somebody who gets anxiety under high pressure situations. My degree allowed me to take a lot of stress of myself by achieving good grades on assignments meaning I had less pressure for exams.

The content of my degree of course was a lot harder but I managed to do a lot better in it.

Indeed the same case for me. I have not started my BSc yet but I had so much anxiety attacks and breakdowns during my alevels and often got sick. I do not know what to expect when I start uni but I plan in majoring in Biology/microbiology. And I also lack social skills to interact with new students which might be a problem too and on top of that I'm going to a foreign university.