A level choices for medicine - too late to switch an AS option...?

Hello fellow medic wannabe! :wave:
I would say that if you hate French that much, and you don't think you'll get atleast a B in it, then just drop it because there's no point carrying on with it.
I hate Physics, but that's mainly because of my board. Otherwise, it wouldn't be a bad option.
There's no point doing Further Maths since many med schools consider Maths + further Maths as 1 A level only.

I think you should chose between Physics or Eng Lit/History, but since you don't feel too confident with English and essays and all that, then go for History or Geography maybe.

However, you must realise that changing your subject at such a late stage during your AS year will mean a lot of stress since you'd have to do a lot of catching up, on top of Maths, Chemistry and Biology.

Good luck with whatever you want to do though! I would personally keep going with French. Like you, I'm hating Physics, but I'm just going to keep working hard at it and it hooefully will work out at the end. Just think, if others can do it, why can't you!?

Thanks. It's just I'm pretty angry at my mum at the moment. I know I could have been firm with the choice to take physics, but I get swayed easily, and she knows that and took advantage of it. I just find it hard to get ideas and make my writing flow, in english and french, and any reading I do do in french I find I'm having to look up practically every word...

The best thing to do would be to ask your teachers if you would be allowed to drop French and then ask to join a few classes for other subjects you have in mind. If you find a subject you like that wont cause you too much stress, then go for it! Good luck.

Oh and I don't think Physics would be that hard to catch up on, as it's not like you have to memorise concepts or anything. You just have to learn the concepts and be able to apply them, which doesn't involve countless recalling, unlike other subjects, such as French, where you'd have to learn masses of vocab and grammar.

I guess I could do physics. Everyone I know taking the subject has said it's really difficult but my dad has a degree in physics so I would be able to get help quite easily in the subject. Is it similar to chemistry? I'm not finding chem too hard.

I'm currently taking maths, chem, bio and french. I'm doing ok in the first three, but french I am kinda struggling with.
Basically, I come from a native arabic and french speaking country, and although I can speak french and get by in the language, I'm not completely fluent. I initially decided on picking physics instead, however I got swayed into choosing french as my mum is a french teacher and she kept telling me how useful it would be. I know I could have been firm about my decision but now it's January and I'm hating the subject.
I can't write essays or pieces of writing in English (my eng and eng lit gcse exams comprised of memorising essays written beforehand with the help out notes and regurgitating it in the exam, only reason I did well) and I can't do this for AS French. I suck at grammar and am finding it much more difficult than anything in chem or maths. I'm puzzled at how reading anything in french would help with my exam and am getting pretty stressed over this. As I've learnt nothing since the start of the year, I just want to know if there are any respected subjects I could consider taking up now (I'm guessing college wouldn't let me but perhaps self taught with a home tutor).
My mum thinks I'm giving up too easily, but if I know I can't do it anyway, why bother?

Hello fellow medic wannabe! :wave:
I would say that if you hate French that much, and you don't think you'll get atleast a B in it, then just drop it because there's no point carrying on with it.
I hate Physics, but that's mainly because of my board. Otherwise, it wouldn't be a bad option.
There's no point doing Further Maths since many med schools consider Maths + further Maths as 1 A level only.

I think you should chose between Physics or Eng Lit/History, but since you don't feel too confident with English and essays and all that, then go for History or Geography maybe.

However, you must realise that changing your subject at such a late stage during your AS year will mean a lot of stress since you'd have to do a lot of catching up, on top of Maths, Chemistry and Biology.

Good luck with whatever you want to do though! I would personally keep going with French. Like you, I'm hating Physics, but I'm just going to keep working hard at it and it hooefully will work out at the end. Just think, if others can do it, why can't you!?

I do history and the entire exam is essays! It's all thge subject is at You have an hour and 20 minutes to write two huge essays on two different indepth time periods. It's not something you can "regurgitate". DO NOT TAKE HISTORY.

Geography however sounds like a good option. Pretty respected but now so difficult that you couldn't catch up.

Well you know better than me, but based on what I've heard from my friends taking history, it involves learning a lot of facts and so it would definitely be a better option that English lit, where much of it is about the way you write the essays, while in History it's more about how you use the facts in your essay, which I think the OP is better suited for. But I agree with you that Geography would be her best bet.