A-level Choices Help

Your options are good, but Psychology isn't needed at a level to take it further! I'd keep your sciences and change Psychology to a Humanities subject if I were you, or English Lit.

Well done on your GCSE mock results by the way! It looks like you're doing really well.

Thanks a lot! Just to clarify if I went into something like neuroscience or psychiatry would I need psychology at A level or not? And I will definitely look into changing it to a humanities subject if so.

Thanks a lot! Just to clarify if I went into something like neuroscience or psychiatry would I need psychology at A level or not? And I will definitely look into changing it to a humanities subject if so.

You'd have to check, but for neuroscience they would definitely prefer a science a level to psychology, as it's closer to medicine stuff.

Id just double check on a couple of unis websites to see what they say.
I dont think you need psychology, but i could be wrong.

I am currently in Year 11 at school and am really struggling to figure out what I want to take for A levels and the career path I want to go into. The only advice I have from teachers etc. is to choose subjects I like and that I'm good at, but I genuinly like all my options and are doing equally well in them (in my last mocks I got A*'s in bio, chem, physics, Re, PE, history, French, a level 8 in maths and a 9 in English lit).
For A levels I have applied for Chemisty, biology, maths and psychology because of an interest in medicine but even that I'm unsure about and I was also trying to keep my options open if that didn't work out, so would I still have options with these subjects? Or would I be better changing them now? Any advice would be helpful

Psychology isn't needed for anything, take it out of enjoyment if you wish, it won't advantage you, really, except in psychology degrees. Psychiatry is a branch of medicine, so you'd do a medicine degree, where psychology A level doesnt really do much. Neuroscience is a scientific analysis of the nervous system, not a philosophical, argumentative approach as in physchology. Experimental psychology might be something you like, but that's an Oxbridge exclusive.

Generally speaking, you don't need it, but you don't really need a different subject to replace it for your career choices. I mean, you don't even need 4 AS Levels anymore

What other subject would you recommend and not even necessarily for neuroscience or psychiatry because I'm not entirely sure about them? Your reply has been helpful, thank you.

If you want to do anything like engineering, natural sciencesor physics itself, pick physics. Anything under the Law/literature route and I'd recommend English lit.

Thank you I'll definitely have a look

You could still do it for enjoyment purposes if you wanted and think you could get a decent grade in it. But i dont think its required.

Just wondering, do you think I would be better changing it to a humanities subject or sticking with it?

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Thanks!

I am in year 13 and take biology, chemistry and psychology. I love all my subjects, and think they are fantastic subjects to choose. Universities like all of them as none are particularly easy.

Biology AS is SUPER easy, A2 is harder. I found AS more interesting than A2.
Chemistry AS is kind of difficult, A2 is difficult. Both years are super interesting. Favourite subject and doing it at Exeter.
Psychology both years have very easy content, there is just A LOT of it. The majority is interesting. Psychology is very good because it is classed as a science, not a social science, giving it a better reputation. It also involves writing essays, which shows you have multiple skills, rather than just short answer science questions.

As for maths... I sort of regret not taking it... because I did love it at GCSE and got an A*, but at the same time... everyone else in my chemistry class took it and they complain about it all the time. It is very difficult. You will struggle to do all four subjects, because they are all really hard. There is quite a bit of math in chemistry, so you wont be abandoning it if you don't take it. If your heart is really set, consider dropping a subject at AS I never did four, but I did an EPQ in my first year, which is also a good thing to do.

I am currently in Year 11 at school and am really struggling to figure out what I want to take for A levels and the career path I want to go into. The only advice I have from teachers etc. is to choose subjects I like and that I'm good at, but I genuinly like all my options and are doing equally well in them (in my last mocks I got A*'s in bio, chem, physics, Re, PE, history, French, a level 8 in maths and a 9 in English lit).
For A levels I have applied for Chemisty, biology, maths and psychology because of an interest in medicine but even that I'm unsure about and I was also trying to keep my options open if that didn't work out, so would I still have options with these subjects? Or would I be better changing them now? Any advice would be helpful