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Hardest A Levels?

Does Anyone Know What The Hardest A Level Is? Like In Rank Of Top 10 Or Something?

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well you may have heard recently student have been told to ditch "soft option" alevels such as ICT, drama, gov and politics, media studies (btw i may be wrong here with this brief list). All alevels have a relative degree of ifficulty but i would say the "harder" ones are F maths, maths and the sciences

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Purple

^o) Politics is not a soft option.

Reply 3

varun_23

i would say physics and then chemistry and stuff like maths,further maths would be around there as well

Reply 4

iceman_jondoe

kirstinx

^o) Politics is not a soft option.

my mistake :redface:

Reply 5

Purple

Cambridge recommend you take a combination of:
Physics
Chemistry
Maths
English Literature
History
A modern language

Reply 6

arpeggio

kirstinx

Cambridge recommend you take a combination of:
Physics
Chemistry
Maths
English Literature
History
A modern language

I wonder why Biology isn't on there?

Reply 7

Xrypto

kirstinx

^o) Politics is not a soft option.

What about Economics is it considered by Unis a "harder" option out of Bussiness Studies,eh?

Reply 8

Morgan141

It depends on the person really and whether you are better at the arts or the sciences. From what I've heard though I'd say of the sciences it would have to be f.maths and of the arts probably History/English lit.

Reply 9

belle_27

Economics is considered a better A level than Business Studies but if you applied for an Economics degree then usually they'd ask for maths A level rather than economics. Though I think it depends on whether you apply for the BA or BSc for whether they want maths A level or not.

Reply 10

AisAis

My teacher says the hardest subjects are chemistry and Latin.

They're the two I find hardest, so I'd agree from my experience so far.

Reply 11

mousy

Deciding what the hardest A level is is subjective

Reply 12

The Strangest Quark

Further maths is certainly the hardest subject by a long way.

Also hardcore are maths, physics, chemistry, history, english literature, foreign languages.

Biology to a lesser extent (less difficult concepts).

That's not all obviously, just examples off the top of my head.

Reply 13

Xrypto

So in all it is dependent on who you speak to about which A Levels are the hardest isn't? Oh why can't be a an offical table?

Reply 14

The Strangest Quark

Xrypto

So in all it is dependent on who you speak to about which A Levels are the hardest isn't? Oh why can't be a an offical table?

Because the official line is that they're all the same in difficulty. An obvious lie.

Reply 15

mtbab

kirstinx

^o) Politics is not a soft option.

thank you kirst!

Reply 16

Ghetto_Princess12

There isn't a specific list for the hardest A-level but generally speaking all a-level subjects are tough and the end result always depends on the effort and hard work students put in.

Reply 17

mtbab

mousy

Deciding what the hardest A level is is subjective

exactly, eg drama is seen as a soft option. But unless you can act and know some good dramatical terms, can write for an hour on the acting conditions in 16th and 17th century theatre and understand what i mean when i say "the first A2 piece we are doing incorporates techniques taken from Brecht, Artaud and Stanislavski focused arounds Esslins theories of absurdism "
and more that i cant be bothered to write its gonna be a pretty rough ride for you lol!

Reply 18

Jason_K

To be honest, the general view, of the hardest A level, is Physics, or so I have been told.

Reply 19

threepiecesuit

Personally, I found Edexcel History to be an ABSOLUTE BITCH to do, whereas I just swanned through English Literature and Politics on natural ability. I only got 512/600 (pending remark of suspiciously low unit) on that, as opposed to 550 for Eng Lit and 556 for Politics.