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Is health and social care gcse the necessary for medicine pathway?

I had my option evening last night and i choose health and social care , geography and triple science gcse :redface:

and right now i am thinking if health and social care was the necessary pathway for me to go if i want to be involved in medicine when i am older? Otherwise i would have picked something better. Is it easy to get A or A*? Does it take a lot if dedication and commitement? Is it interesting? What makes it different from odinary triple?

These questions have been going through my head since last night and i would like some answers from u guys.

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Reply 1

abbalarr95

I don't do health and social care and never have, but it's not necessary at all. You need biology, chemistry and maths (and decent english)

Reply 2

squeakysquirrel

Original post by TracyEmu

I had my option evening last night and i choose health and social care , geography and triple science gcse :redface:

Good grief - do you want to do medicine - then don't touch these mickey mouse subjects. Three sciences; maths; a language other than english; bit of history and maybe geography. RE or philosophy and ethics. Sorted

Reply 3

TracyEmu

Thanks. What makes health and social care good and necessary for some medicine courses? Ant ideas?

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Reply 4

i08arkir

I think health and social care is probably seen as a soft subject. Seems easy to get an A* in. But at Uni they mainly look that you have A*'s in Maths, Sciences and English.

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Reply 5

abbalarr95

Original post by TracyEmu

Thanks. What makes health and social care good and necessary for some medicine courses? Ant ideas?

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Health and social can get you into nursing, but won't have anything to do with medicine. They want academic subjects for medicine - health and social isn't seen as academic.
If you're interested in doing medicine in uni and the entry requirements, go onto www.ucas.com , search for medicine and look at the entry requirements for the uni's. They normally say what GCSE's they're looking for (as well as A levels).

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username5613474

Original post by TracyEmu

I had my option evening last night and i choose health and social care , geography and triple science gcse :o:

awesome: and right now i am thinking if health and social care was the necessary pathway for me to go if i want to be involved in medicine when i am older? Otherwise i would have picked something better. Is it easy to get A or A*? Does it take a lot if dedication and commitement? Is it interesting? What makes it different from odinary triple?

These questions have been going through my head since last night and i would like some answers from u guys.

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hey, I know I’m late but I was thinking of health and social, triple science and history- is that a good choice? Where are you at in your life now?