Picking a-level chemistry is my biggest regret !!!!!!

Haha screw A-level maths bro, Got an 8 in GCSE however I simply couldn't understand First year A-level maths. First year Chemistry alright actually, but when second year of 6th form starts, I have been told chemistry just goes to hell Hopefully what your saying is wrong as my teachers are horrible too but I can generally understand it through textbook.

This is lies. A level maths is soooo much harder than chemistry.i like chemistry but the mocks I just sat in chemistry were not nice. I like the fact chemistry is all about understanding instead of memorising, except for organic chemistry where you need to remember organic synthesis and reactions.

Same with me and Biology. Biggest mistake ever as I could have picked a much easier subject as my unis don't require any specific A-levels, and aimed for the B I need as I am aiming for in my other subjects..

If your about to pick your alevels for the love of god DONT chemistry, worst decision ive EVER made, the course is hard and the teachers at my school are TERRIBLE. AND before you come for my intellectual level, im currently studying maths and computer science. AND THE MATHS IN ALEVEL CHEMISTRY IS HARDER THAN ACTUAL MATHS ALEVEL. i got an A in GCSE chemistry, so dont think getting a good grade will mean chemistry at alevel will be similar. IT IS HONSELTTY SO BORING ONLY PEOPLE WHO DONT LOVE THEMSELVES WILL PICK THIS SUBJECT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED . also i applied to uni this year but it looks like im not going, year 14 will sadly be seeing me.

This is filling me up with loads of doubt... I knew that Chemistry was hard and I desperately need it with my hopes of being a vet 😬😬😬 and with maths and biology too it sounds like I’m in for 2 years of struggle!

chem content and chem questions have no correlation THUS making it a TERRIBLE SUBJECT and maths honestly gets easier

Same with me and Biology. Biggest mistake ever as I could have picked a much easier subject as my unis don't require any specific A-levels, and aimed for the B I need as I am aiming for in my other subjects..

This is filling me up with loads of doubt... I knew that Chemistry was hard and I desperately need it with my hopes of being a vet 😬😬😬 and with maths and biology too it sounds like I’m in for 2 years of struggle!

Don't worry, those subjects are certainly manageable. Read my earlier reply in this thread- I'm pretty sure the OP just didn't study enough for his last exam.

For AS Chem I hardly revised for my mocks and did like no practice questions and got an easy A but for A2 you need to do practice questions but I'm lazy. For maths, I do lots of questions and really struggling,stats are annoying did all the textbook questions and the exam questions in my mock couldn't even do them, they were sooooo much harder. The pure stuff is hard too, mechanics varies.

I only got a B in GCSE Chemistry but am now in Y13 now, predicted to get an A/A* grade at A-Level- i've managed to consistently scoring A*/A grades this year even after my weak GCSE performance. Many people struggle with Chemistry initially as it's a step up from GCSE in terms of workload. But Chemistry is surprisingly easy if you put in the work, especially compared to A-Level Maths and Biology which are my other 2 subjects.
If you actually learn all the content in your textbook and spend a few hours doing practice questions for each topic, you'll do very well in the exams.

The exam questions are pretty straight forward compared to most other A-Levels and most people I know who score low in Chemistry just hadn't bothered to study for it. So how can you blame that on the subject? Also, it's not right to tell other students to not take a subject just because the teachers at your school aren't great; almost all the A/A* grade students at my school will self-study and not rely on teachers. We learn ahead of the rest of the class and use our lessons just to go over what we know.

You've said that 'Maths in A-Level Chemistry is harder than actual Maths A-Level', but this is totally incorrect and silly. Pretty much all the calculations in chemistry are just inputting numbers into a few formulas that you're supposed to have memorised. You don't even need to take any quantitative subject to know how to put things into a formula; it's common sense.


My guess is that you've just had some exam results back and haven't done particularly well on Chemistry and so have decided to rant about it here. Next time, please think back to the root of the problem- are you genuinely finding the subject hard even after putting in a lot of work, or have you just not bothered to study and was surprised when your exam grade was low?

This is filling me up with loads of doubt... I knew that Chemistry was hard and I desperately need it with my hopes of being a vet 😬😬😬 and with maths and biology too it sounds like I’m in for 2 years of struggle!

I only got a B in GCSE Chemistry but am now in Y13 now, predicted to get an A/A* grade at A-Level- i've managed to consistently scoring A*/A grades this year even after my weak GCSE performance. Many people struggle with Chemistry initially as it's a step up from GCSE in terms of workload. But Chemistry is surprisingly easy if you put in the work, especially compared to A-Level Maths and Biology which are my other 2 subjects.
If you actually learn all the content in your textbook and spend a few hours doing practice questions for each topic, you'll do very well in the exams.

The exam questions are pretty straight forward compared to most other A-Levels and most people I know who score low in Chemistry just hadn't bothered to study for it. So how can you blame that on the subject? Also, it's not right to tell other students to not take a subject just because the teachers at your school aren't great; almost all the A/A* grade students at my school will self-study and not rely on teachers. We learn ahead of the rest of the class and use our lessons just to go over what we know.

You've said that 'Maths in A-Level Chemistry is harder than actual Maths A-Level', but this is totally incorrect and silly. Pretty much all the calculations in chemistry are just inputting numbers into a few formulas that you're supposed to have memorised. You don't even need to take any quantitative subject to know how to put things into a formula; it's common sense.


My guess is that you've just had some exam results back and haven't done particularly well on Chemistry and so have decided to rant about it here. Next time, please think back to the root of the problem- are you genuinely finding the subject hard even after putting in a lot of work, or have you just not bothered to study and was surprised when your exam grade was low?

Don't worry dude, i'm in yr 13 and applied for veterinary and study maths, chem and bio and i find chemistry the easiest... depends on the person