Does anyone do 5 AS levels?

If you do please let me know what are the benefits of doing them and what subjects you take?
Thanks in advance! 😀

Only very few people will. There is no benefits because you only need 3 for university in fact, it's a disadvantage taking 5 because you will have too much work to do wrhich might effect your other grades.

For university don't you think that 5 AS levels will give more UCAS points?

Specifications are changing that there are no AS anymore. It's more of achieving whatever the universities requirement is.

The more A-levels you do, the stronger the application becomes but it ultimately depends on the universities that you apply to. For example, the vast majority of successful candidates at Imperial College London have done 4 or more A-Levels (Somewhere between 75-80%). The notion of only needing 3 is true for most universities however. There is no point in doing a lot if you are ultimately thinking about applying to average universities. Also, you should only do a high number if you can handle it.

Thanks go the advice 😀 Also You know the grades that universities put on their websites for the courses, are they what you need for AS and A-Level or just for A-Level?

You know the grades that universities put on their websites for the courses, are they what you need for AS and A-Level or just for A-Level?

I'm doing 5 AS levels

If you do please let me know what are the benefits of doing them and what subjects you take?
Thanks in advance! 😀

For university don't you think that 5 AS levels will give more UCAS points?

The more A-levels you do, the stronger the application becomes but it ultimately depends on the universities that you apply to. For example, the vast majority of successful candidates at Imperial College London have done 4 or more A-Levels (Somewhere between 75-80%). The notion of only needing 3 is true for most universities however. There is no point in doing a lot if you are ultimately thinking about applying to average universities. Also, you should only do a high number if you can handle it.

Bolded is not necessarily true, unless a university states this in their admissions policy then it is likely just correlative that people at those univerisites took more A-levels.

If an admissions tutor is trying to decide between 2 people, he/she would look at grades first. If one has 3 A-levels and the other has 5 A-levels, the one with 5 is more likely to get the offer because most of the time, they only care about grades. But for average universities, there will be no one applying with this many A-levels. More than 3 should only be done if you are considering applying to the best universities.

How do you know they look at grades first? You also have their personal statement and reference, and for these "best" universities you will also have admissions tests and interviews to consider, so it's not quite that simple as to say A-levels will be the deciding factor.

If you do please let me know what are the benefits of doing them and what subjects you take?
Thanks in advance! 😀