What are the most OVERRATED A level subjects?

Thought it'd be fun to chat about, and hopefully make me feel better about my own a level choices (as long as no one picks 'em)

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Original post by Zasty

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ouch, 1st one struck off my list, yikes. What a levels did you do?

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chloedeniselewis

Definitely agree with history! I’m in Year 13 now, and there’s SO much information to remember, literally over 100 years of key events, people and changes, all for 1 exam.

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XKangaotiCX

Original post by chloedeniselewis

Definitely agree with history! I’m in Year 13 now, and there’s SO much information to remember, literally over 100 years of key events, people and changes, all for 1 exam.

What exam board do you do? It sounds different to the one I'm gonna do - we're doing about tudors, american civil rights and german history..

Reply 5

999tigger

Original post by XKangaotiCX

Thought it'd be fun to chat about, and hopefully make me feel better about my own a level choices (as long as no one picks 'em)

What do you mean by overrated? Who is doing the rating and what is it?

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Crow_M

Design and technology, geography and English Literature.

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chloedeniselewis

WJEC! And those are the exact topics I’ve done / am doing. I found the tudors really hard (was a 100 years topic), as within each topic there were so many different name, events, causes, consequences, etc. German history was pretty easy last year, (I managed to get an A on the paper) as I had done it from year 9-12. And we’re currently doing ‘The American Century’ which had both civil right and foreign policy in it, and I found the ‘early days’ of civil rights to be quite difficult to remember, and I struggle with the foreign policy side of it as there is so much information!

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XKangaotiCX

Original post by 999tigger

What do you mean by overrated? Who is doing the rating and what is it?

I don't mean it in such a literal sense, but an a level subject which loads of people do that isn't that great is basically what I mean

Reply 9

XKangaotiCX

Original post by chloedeniselewis

Ah, I get it. I didn't think the tudors lasted that long lel... would you say history is interesting though?

Reply 10

Rolls_Reus_0wner

Original post by Crow_M

Design and technology, geography and English Literature.

Geography is an L! I've taken it... Rather have taken Economics still

Reply 11

BasicMistake

Original post by XKangaotiCX

I don't mean it in such a literal sense, but an a level subject which loads of people do that isn't that great is basically what I mean

Great as in what though?

How difficult it is? How interesting it is?

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chloedeniselewis

Honestly, I find the civil rights section, as well as the nazi Germany section really interesting, as they are subjects everyone knows a little about, but actually massively affected many’s lives, but I found the Tudor side of it really boring, I couldn’t motivate myself to revise properly for the exam, and even thought I got a C on the paper, I really struggled with it, as the paper is just 2 essay questions, unlike the usual source, interpretations style questions / essay questions that are on the Germany paper!