Why Should you take a BTEC?

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That seems stupidly high for it. I've never known any institution/exam board or country for that matter use a percent. It has always been number of words.

The number was just made up but they do work on percentages as far as I'm aware. Either way, it does the same job, so forget that.

Me spouting rubbish, seriously you need to read what you just said as you basically just said a way of revision. and especially with Maths all the formulas are in a book, so you have to read them and understand them. So as long as you remember how to do them, you are fine. You only get marks on what you know at the time and if it is what the examiner wants.

The whole point of Mathematics is to apply what you know, not just remember it. That's one of the reasons most people struggle with it. Maths is a sequential subject, for example; to do well in Core 3 and 4, you need to be brilliant at Core 1 and 2 or else you have no foundations and as a result, will crumble. So please don't make Maths out to be a 'remember it now, then forget it later' subject because it's not. Did you take an A-Level in Maths by any chance?

What the examiner wants? In Maths, the examiner will always expect 2+2 to be 4. He will always expect the differential of 2x^2 to be 4x...

GCSE who gives a **** about GCSE, and I've taught BTECs at A Level and can tell you now they are not doss subjects, they actually require a HELL of lot more work and actually prepare for university far more than A Levels ever will in terms of being able to do indpendant research and research in general, if you actually look at statistics that have been published by some universities, you can see that BTEC students tend to do better than expected in their first year than A Level students, and most contribute this down to the fact that BTEC students are more suited to the way universities operate.

I agree, some BTEC's are challenging. However, it's ridiculous to say the difficulty of a BTEC is on the same level as the difficulty of Maths and Science. You can get on a BTEC course without hardly any qualifications (they like a C in English and Maths but I know plenty of people who aren't even close to that, but are still doing a BTEC).

Also, if you think a BTEC requires more work than Further Mathematics/Science then you're fooling yourself. I have 12 study periods at my school, 8 of them are spent on Maths and the other 4 are spent on Electronics/Physics. All my friends who are doing BTEC's (predicted Distinctions) are in the pub all of the time.

Out of curiosity what did you get for BTEC you did at GCSE?

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If you take BTEC rather than A-levels, you are an academic failure. Simple.

If you take BTEC rather than A-levels, you are an academic failure. Simple.

I did skim read it. as I was trying to actually organising the logistics of a new BTEC course whilst looking on here. Sorry to the OP.

Under new plans universities will have to accept BTECs, if current plans go through, may take a few years though.

Dippy Dip, I do understand the difference, I very much understand the difference.

If you take BTEC rather than A-levels, you are an academic failure. Simple.

"I got all As in my A-levels, and that's never helped me much with getting a career, to be honest. A-levels are just the entry way to undergraduate stories and not much more. "

So A-Levels are little more than tickets to degrees, and BTECs (even the level 5s being mentioned) are for academic failures? Wow, your one pessimistic individual

you had to be told twice!

BTEC are want you make of them. However i can understand why A level students portray them to be for stupid, cause unfortunately most stereotype people do the course. When i have some free time i will update this thread.

Got to love A level students though thinking their above us

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"I got all As in my A-levels, and that's never helped me much with getting a career, to be honest. A-levels are just the entry way to undergraduate stories and not much more. "

So A-Levels are little more than tickets to degrees, and BTECs (removed, you did say choosing them against A-levels) are for academic failures? Wow, your one pessimistic individual

It's funny how BTEC drones regurgitate the propaganda that they are doing decent qualifications "equal to" or "better than" A-levels. MegaLOL

Most of the people in my class had done well in there GCSE's and did a BTEC as they had been advised that it was a good route into nursing which it has been for most of us, 90% of my class have places to at uni for nursing and midwifery in september including me.

BTEC's are probably one of the best things you can do. If you have a dead set idea on what you want to do after education, its all the better as I'd argue you can learn more in a BTEC as you spend months on one topic writing essay after essay - good prep for uni too in that sense.

My friend got DDD (Of which english was his second language and at break time and free periods he would play games on computers. He also worked all weekend too). He passed his triple D with ease and is now at UCLan in a triple A course. No way in hell you could get all A's at alevel with the minimal work he put in.

That can't be right UCLan doesnt have any course that AAA, What course is he studying?

Physiotherapy. Just asked him and he was told to get AAB or equivalent for the 2011 entry. Points still the same, thats a very high offer.