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Which A Levels require mass-memorisation?

I was just interested to know of the Alevels you think need lots of memorising as supposed to actually understanding the subjects and applying them well? Especially out of the Sciences.. :smile:

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sherlllll
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Chemistry, just a massive massive crappy memory test.
Reply 2
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Racheld25
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Psychology :smile:
:hmmm: personally ill say biology but it becomes much easier if u break in down into your notes
chemistry is a little bit less but a lot of understanding

:biggrin:
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AtomicMan
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Biology, if you compared my biology, chemistry and physics books you would see that:

1. Biology
2. Chemistry
3. Physics

By far
I found that AS Biology was all just memorising facts and remembering how to word them correctly... Absolutely hated it!
Biology AQA is mass learning to an extent. There is a lot to learn, but this alone will get you a C/B, to get an A/A* understanding is needed.

Chemistry AQA is less learning, but lots of understanding. Without good understanding you'll be lucky to get a D.

Physics OCR is just plain boring (dropped for A2)

Economics is little learning, and lots of application. I really enjoy it.

hope this helped.x x x
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Aminaubah
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Original post by AtomicMan
Biology, if you compared my biology, chemistry and physics books you would see that:

1. Biology
2. Chemistry
3. Physics

By far


Thanks, I'm deffo choosing Biology then, I love cramming :P
Reply 8
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Dressmate
Well, lots of them but I teach Textiles Technology and it requires a huge amount of memorisation of masses of facts on all sorts of things as well as application of those facts. But that's waht you get for studying an 'easy' subject.
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Bi0logical
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Biology = Memory test
Also Psychology.

Chem/Physics/Maths require understanding
Languages.
Original post by Aminaubah
Thanks, I'm deffo choosing Biology then, I love cramming :P


Cramming will not work with Biology. I don't care how you crammed for your GCSEs and got A*s, it won't work with A level Biology.
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sohinder
pretty much all of them but Biology is clearly numero 1. However there are some mechanisms in Bio that can be learnt easier if understood, i like chem better coz u can learnt stuff but understanding what the purpose of a process rather than blindly following the steps as in bio
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dolmio
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Generally all the subjects will have some key content to memorise (obv). Highest application is obviously maths, and probably economics too.
As for the sciences, Biology has a lot of content to cover, though they are generally easy concepts.
Chemistry requires a lot of memorisation which is generally harder I'd say - you need to learn equations, conditions, formulas and mechanisms though the content isn't too difficult, but definitely more difficult than biology.
Can't really comment on physics as I don't do it, but my friends find it ok, apparently it doesn't take as much work as chem.

Hope this helped :smile:
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Aminaubah
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Original post by 01010000 01001010
Cramming will not work with Biology. I don't care how you crammed for your GCSEs and got A*s, it won't work with A level Biology.


:bawling:
Well I don't do sciences but history can be pretttty hardcore...
i'd say all, but from my own experience i'd say psychology and biology :/
Reply 17
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Vav123
biology by a mile
Art.
Reply 19
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Vav123
Original post by Aminaubah
Thanks, I'm deffo choosing Biology then, I love cramming :P


depends how you define cramming I personally make sure i understand the basic stuff then spend a few weeks memorizing the facts and stuff.

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