maths or geography a level

DO WHAT YOU ENJOY
If you are only doing maths because it is an option, you will fail. It’s hard and easy to fall behind on.
Why do you want to do medicine? Make sure have passion for it, because it is rigorous and very competitive.
If your school lets you, start with all of them and then you can drop one in your second year.
Best of luck

To be honest, biology and chemistry and maths would be a better combination than geography with biology and chem, especially if you want to go into medicine. To do medicine, they do look for you to have chemistry and then biology/physics/maths so if that's your career aspiration then I would recommend you to do maths. However, I'm not looking into studying medicine myself so I don't know how important maths is for someone wanting to go into biology/medicine.

I do however, take geography and I'm really enjoying it but then my other subjects are very humanities and essay based, and not biology or chemistry. The fact that you have not taken it at GCSE could potentially cause you to fall behind just because other people in the class have probably all done it at GCSE. A level geography is really not too much of an upgrade from GCSE so it's not a massive jump. Human geography tends to be more straightforward, physical geography on the other hand is a bit harder. If you are motivated to do well and work hard then you will be fine.

To be honest, biology and chemistry and maths would be a better combination than geography with biology and chem, especially if you want to go into medicine. To do medicine, they do look for you to have chemistry and then biology/physics/maths so if that's your career aspiration then I would recommend you to do maths. However, I'm not looking into studying medicine myself so I don't know how important maths is for someone wanting to go into biology/medicine.

I do however, take geography and I'm really enjoying it but then my other subjects are very humanities and essay based, and not biology or chemistry. The fact that you have not taken it at GCSE could potentially cause you to fall behind just because other people in the class have probably all done it at GCSE. A level geography is really not too much of an upgrade from GCSE so it's not a massive jump. Human geography tends to be more straightforward, physical geography on the other hand is a bit harder. If you are motivated to do well and work hard then you will be fine.

furthermore i would like to add that maths definetely does not give you an advantage if you plan to do medicine. this year 70 people in my 6th form got into a medical based course at university where all 70 took chemistry however only 20 took maths.

biology and chemistry and geography is actually a very convenient and good combination as they provide such a wide range of skills. for example i myslef take maths physics economics and geography for alevel and they offer me both essay based and quantitative based skills Universities prefer this so are more likely to consider me as a more successful applicant.

I think your points are very valid and doing geography in addition to bio and chem makes you a well-rounded applicant. I do think however, it depends more on the grades you get. So if you get an A* in biology, an A in chemistry and a A in geography, then they're obviously going to consider you more than someone that got an A* in biology, an A in chemistry and a B in maths.

ye thats true i guess ive always been good and fond of all the subjects im currently taking so i find it easier to enjoy and get goods grades in them.

You need to make these choices as personal as possible, but if you ask me, and I did AS maths and am finishing A Level geography, I would say geography is easier but maths is worth doing if you can. You need to be really up for it though. I got A* maths GCSE but A Level was too much because I wasn't up to it in terms of the level of effort needed. Geography is a bit easier as long as you are naturally decent at it.

You don't need an A* in GCSE Maths to take, or even to do well in, A-level Maths. However, if you don't enjoy it or struggle to keep on top of the material now, it's debatable whether that will improve in A-level (although on the interest front, I can say at least I found the A-level Maths material a lot more interesting than GCSE Maths, which I found quite tedious and dull). Maths is a subject that requires a strong on-going commitment to it, doing problems every week if not one or two every day, to reinforce your learning. The only way to really learn maths (at least at A-level standard) is to practice it constantly. If motivation might be a struggle with that, that can make it harder to keep up and get a good result.

A-level Geography is a perfectly fine choice otherwise, either for medicine or in the sciences besides. Only one medical school that I'm aware of normally expects 3 STEM subjects (Cambridge), and all the others seem to care very little about which subject you take as your third (previously UCL had language indicating it "welcomed a contrasting subject" although I think this has been removed now). For medicine some aspects of geography may well be relevant (e.g. elements of demography), while in the sciences any aspect could be relevant (e.g. demography, environmental policy and sciences, physical geography and geology, ecology etc).

Whether the lack of GCSE Geography will be an issue is down to your school; if they accept students who haven't done the GCSE, then nominally they shouldn't expect that material, or should be able to provide you with advice and/or suggested reading over the summer. Some schools do require you to take the GCSE, as they structure their teaching around the assumption you have taken it. I don't know to what extent the GCSE material is "carried over" to the A-level, whether it is developed further or simply reframed in a different context though...

DO WHAT YOU ENJOY
If you are only doing maths because it is an option, you will fail. It’s hard and easy to fall behind on.
Why do you want to do medicine? Make sure have passion for it, because it is rigorous and very competitive.
If your school lets you, start with all of them and then you can drop one in your second year.
Best of luck

Doing biology, chemistry definitely.

struggling with maths atm for GCSE but haven't studied geography for GCSE.

probably going into something like biology or medicine

Parents aren't keen on me doing geography as they believe I will be behind.

Help anyone?!

You don't need an A* in GCSE Maths to take, or even to do well in, A-level Maths. However, if you don't enjoy it or struggle to keep on top of the material now, it's debatable whether that will improve in A-level (although on the interest front, I can say at least I found the A-level Maths material a lot more interesting than GCSE Maths, which I found quite tedious and dull). Maths is a subject that requires a strong on-going commitment to it, doing problems every week if not one or two every day, to reinforce your learning. The only way to really learn maths (at least at A-level standard) is to practice it constantly. If motivation might be a struggle with that, that can make it harder to keep up and get a good result.

A-level Geography is a perfectly fine choice otherwise, either for medicine or in the sciences besides. Only one medical school that I'm aware of normally expects 3 STEM subjects (Cambridge), and all the others seem to care very little about which subject you take as your third (previously UCL had language indicating it "welcomed a contrasting subject" although I think this has been removed now). For medicine some aspects of geography may well be relevant (e.g. elements of demography), while in the sciences any aspect could be relevant (e.g. demography, environmental policy and sciences, physical geography and geology, ecology etc).

Whether the lack of GCSE Geography will be an issue is down to your school; if they accept students who haven't done the GCSE, then nominally they shouldn't expect that material, or should be able to provide you with advice and/or suggested reading over the summer. Some schools do require you to take the GCSE, as they structure their teaching around the assumption you have taken it. I don't know to what extent the GCSE material is "carried over" to the A-level, whether it is developed further or simply reframed in a different context though...