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I have thought about a career in Zoology, but I'm not good at maths. Any advice?

Basically, after much thought and consideration about careers, I would like to go into Zoology, but because it's biology based I'm guessing I'll need maths at a certain level. I only ever studied maths at GCSE and I go a measly D grade. In school I had a lot of problems with family etc during the GCSE's, so I wasn't focused much. To be honest though, I also never had much interest in education back then. But now I'm 23 years old and I want to have a career behind me, so I've thought about going back to study Zoology. I completed a Key skills level 2 Numeracy and literacy test last year, which is the equivalent of a C grade in Maths and English.

But anyway, my main question is how much maths is involved in a Zoology course? And as I'm not so good at maths, would I receive help along the way? It definitely a career I have thought about a lot, and it's something I would like to do.

Any advice?

Reply 1

grace-

I want to do zoology as well. However I am RUBBISH at maths, but I don't think this matters.
I was looking up university requirements for zoology courses and a lot of them said they would accept: biology, geography and psychology - and I'm going to do all of them next year for A level, you only need the basic C in GCSE maths.

So I wouldn't worry if I was you. Just look up different entry requirements for university's and try and take the A levels that you need.

Reply 2

JohnnytheFox

Don't worry, the only maths you'll really be required to do is simple statistical tests and these can be carried out for you in Microsoft Excel. Basically, provided you can plug some numbers into a spreadsheet, you'll be fine.