These questions concern the gulf in demand between GCSE and A-level for the aforementioned subjects in the title. I wouldn't mind if students that completed, or are currently studying, these subjects at A-level answered.
For the two English subjects, how different are they at A-level in comparison to GCSE? I did fairly well in both GCSE English literature and English language, so I don't think I'll struggle immensely with them, but are they completely different in content to A-level (I'm with OCR, doing dystopian literature and Hamlet)? How much more difficult would you say they were compared to GCSE?
For those doing chemistry, I have a bit of a different question:
I did combined science at GCSE and achieved a grade 8-8. However, I really enjoyed chemistry and was honestly very interested in it. I found it fascinating. I got 101/140 marks in the chemistry component, which exceeded the grade 9 threshold for it in AQA's Combined Science Trilogy course. Recently, I've been bridging the gap between GCSE and A-level, and sealing the hole in my knowledge that the separate science course contained. Do you think that if I work hard enough, I would be able to have a stab at a decent grade at A-level?