Is A Level English Language & Literature considered a soft subject?

I'm debating whether to take English Lit or English Lang&Lit at A Level. I prefer the books etc that you study with combined English, but some people have told me that it's considered a soft subject. Is this true? Would it be better if I took Lit instead?

I'm debating whether to take English Lit or English Lang&Lit at A Level. I prefer the books etc that you study with combined English, but some people have told me that it's considered a soft subject. Is this true? Would it be better if I took Lit instead?

Both are facilitating, but I think Lit is more respected than combined Lit/Lang.

If you want to Eng lit at uni, my school advises kids to take Lit, instead of combined; it's not soft, per se, but both Lang and Lit are covered in less depth.

Respected by who? Your dog?

Universities 😂 at least that's what I got told when I applied for sixth form

Your sixth form are wrong I'm afraid. As I posted before:

From the Russell Group's informed choices document:

"English ESSENTIAL ADVANCED LEVEL QUALIFICATIONS English Literature or combined English Language & Literature (some courses will accept English Language).

USEFUL ADVANCED LEVEL QUALIFICATIONS History, Religious Studies, a foreign language."
https://www.russellgroup.ac.uk/media...ices-print.pdf (see page 45 of document).

Both A levels are accepted by universities, you can take the single subject or the combined version, it does not put you at a disadvantage whatsoever in applications. One is not more 'respected' than the other.

But one is facilitating and one is not.

Take Lit by itself - it's a challenge but a lot more respected by good universities

Not really because English lit is a facilitating subject for all Russell group unis and neither Lang nor combined is 😂

I was in the same boat as you and I checked different RG uni's and they consider Lit+Lang as facilitating so I think you're good.

You are clearly unaware of the purpose of facilitating subjects.

All facilitating subjects do is keep your options open as they allow access onto more courses if you are still unsure about which course you would like to take - facilitating subjects are not about subjects being "soft" or "hard" or respected or not respected.

Please see page 1 of the document or my earlier post https://www.russellgroup.ac.uk/media...ices-print.pdf

"If you don’t yet know what you’ll want to study at university, there are some subjects which will keep your degree options open until you decide which course to take. This guide will help you to see which advanced level subjects — which we call ‘facilitating subjects’ — open doors to more degrees and more professions than others. It’s not about ‘hard’ or ‘soft’ subjects, but those which keep your options open."

As long as you take subjects that allow you onto your chosen course then it doesn't matter which A levels you take.

You could take English Lit & Lang, Sociology, and Psychology and easily get onto an English Lit degree at any top university if the rest of your application is solid.