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I'm currently in Year 11 and I'm starting A Levels in September. I would like to take Maths, English Lit & Lang (combined), Psychology and Product Design. I do not plan on going to Uni. I'd just like to know if these are good subjects with good lessons and what I would need to do to prepare for them over the summer?
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I can only advise you for maths, but if you want to be prepared make sure you have brushed up on surds, indices and factorising things like ax^2+bx+c and drawing related graphs. Overall I don't believe the work load will be too much but that's coming from someone who does no essay subjects.
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Product Design is a bit soft for Uni but as you're not going its not an issue. These are fine subjects to take and not too difficult but brush up on mathematical topics as AS maths is difficult. May I ask why you're not going to Uni?
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(Original post by BinaryJava)
I can only advise you for maths, but if you want to be prepared make sure you have brushed up on surds, indices and factorising things like ax^2+bx+c and drawing related graphs. Overall I don't believe the work load will be too much but that's coming from someone who does no essay subjects.
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I can only advise you for maths, but if you want to be prepared make sure you have brushed up on surds, indices and factorising things like ax^2+bx+c and drawing related graphs. Overall I don't believe the work load will be too much but that's coming from someone who does no essay subjects.
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I also study Alevel maths and when i arrived in AS from second set at high school (Got an A at GCSE) I struggled for awhile with Surds, Quadratics and omg indices took me a good long while. Everyone else seemed to whiz through those and I was left behind for a bit. So yeah, make sure you can do those while you are still at school
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(Original post by LouellieX)
I'm currently in Year 11 and I'm starting A Levels in September. I would like to take Maths, English Lit & Lang (combined), Psychology and Product Design. I do not plan on going to Uni. I'd just like to know if these are good subjects with good lessons and what I would need to do to prepare for them over the summer?
I'm currently in Year 11 and I'm starting A Levels in September. I would like to take Maths, English Lit & Lang (combined), Psychology and Product Design. I do not plan on going to Uni. I'd just like to know if these are good subjects with good lessons and what I would need to do to prepare for them over the summer?
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(Original post by TheGrammarGuru)
Product Design is a bit soft for Uni but as you're not going its not an issue. These are fine subjects to take and not too difficult but brush up on mathematical topics as AS maths is difficult. May I ask why you're not going to Uni?
Product Design is a bit soft for Uni but as you're not going its not an issue. These are fine subjects to take and not too difficult but brush up on mathematical topics as AS maths is difficult. May I ask why you're not going to Uni?
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(Original post by Synonym)
why no uni ?
why no uni ?
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(Original post by Bern Herkins)
This is good advice regarding the maths.
I also study Alevel maths and when i arrived in AS from second set at high school (Got an A at GCSE) I struggled for awhile with Surds, Quadratics and omg indices took me a good long while. Everyone else seemed to whiz through those and I was left behind for a bit. So yeah, make sure you can do those while you are still at school
This is good advice regarding the maths.
I also study Alevel maths and when i arrived in AS from second set at high school (Got an A at GCSE) I struggled for awhile with Surds, Quadratics and omg indices took me a good long while. Everyone else seemed to whiz through those and I was left behind for a bit. So yeah, make sure you can do those while you are still at school
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(Original post by mscaffrey)
I did maths and english lit, plus economics and music, so there are some similarities between what I studied and what you hope to study. Maths is the most important one to prepare for. Be familiar with GCSE algebra - just do some exercises once a week over the summer. Things like completing the square and surds are forgotten by a surprising number of people over the summer, and they're really important for the first year. I'd get a revision book for Psychology (A level revision) just so you can glance at what kind of things you'll be doing, and you can rest easy knowing that you'll have some homework help to hand once you start your studies. With English - reading a book or two wouldn't hurt, but it's not completely necessary. No idea what product design involves, but I imagine it's quite practical so I can't think of anything you'd need to go over before studying that. I think you have a good balance of subjects.
I did maths and english lit, plus economics and music, so there are some similarities between what I studied and what you hope to study. Maths is the most important one to prepare for. Be familiar with GCSE algebra - just do some exercises once a week over the summer. Things like completing the square and surds are forgotten by a surprising number of people over the summer, and they're really important for the first year. I'd get a revision book for Psychology (A level revision) just so you can glance at what kind of things you'll be doing, and you can rest easy knowing that you'll have some homework help to hand once you start your studies. With English - reading a book or two wouldn't hurt, but it's not completely necessary. No idea what product design involves, but I imagine it's quite practical so I can't think of anything you'd need to go over before studying that. I think you have a good balance of subjects.
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I studied English Literature, English Language and Psychology. I think you'll be fine so long as you put the effort in and distribute you time evenly to each subject
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Is A level music good? Difficult?
Is A level music good? Difficult?
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