Sorry, what I did was a bit weird
In sixth form I did eng lit, art, french & physics (i.e. over years 12 and 13); my choices weren't determined by anything, I didn't know what I wanted to do.
I took a gap year to get work experience and decide what I wanted to do a degree in and the career prospects it would give me (I wanted to do classics when I was at school, but I wasn't sure & my family don't have enough money for me to consider doing something that wouldn't help me get a job).
I worked in an osteopathic clinic and got interested in healthcare; I started volunteering in my local community hospital and read a lot about medical conditions and became obsessed!
I essentially did A-levels from scratch; my med school offer didn't consider my school A-levels. There had been enough of a gap btw them & they were different subjects so they considered them as a totally different set of A-levels: I checked this with the unis I applied to before I applied.
I went to a FE college because my school wouldn't take me back as I was over 18 by this time (my school didn't even allow retake years).
The closest FE college that offered science A-levels only did them as intensive 1 year courses; I couldn't afford to travel further. Therefore I did chemistry and biology in one year; initially I thought I might be able to apply with bio, chem and my A in eng lit from school (I hadn't done my research!).
When I got A*A* I determined that I might have a chance of getting into medical school. I phoned unis and they said that they would consider 2 full A-levels done in 1 year followed by 1 or 2 done in a subsequent year as equivalent to 3/4 done in 2 years: I think they agreed partly because I couldn't go somewhere that did them over the normal 2 years, and because doing 2 A-levels in 1 year is about the same workload as doing 4 over 2 years.
Therefore the next year I took psych and maths; and in that academic year I applied to unis. I got offers based on getting A in either maths or psych. Therefore my matriculating qualifications (that unis use to determine your place) were bio, chem, psych, maths as above.
My situation was rather unusual (I made it difficult for myself
), and I didn't know if I could get good grades in sciences (I only just scraped a C in physics
)
What are you thinking of doing? Have you finished year 13?