Choosing A Levels

I am in year 11 and need to choose my A Levels for next year. I want to take a degree in Psychology and am thinking about taking French, Psychology, English Language, and Art for A level. I am aware that maths an science is a big part of psychology but I am expected a high B/ low A at GCSE for maths and a low B for Biology and most other sciences so I'm not sure I I should consider doing them? Also, is any science A Level/ maths A Level important when applying to do a Psychology degree?

Having done Psychology A level, maths is fairly helpful, but since they are trying to integrate more maths into the syllabus it wouldn't be a bad thing as you would have a bigger advantage at that aspect of the psychology course. Universities may also prefer you to have a subject like maths because there will be a lot of maths during your degree, which might stand you in better stead over other candidates. But your GCSE maths result will give you a good indication as to if you should do it or not. A grade B or above is ideal.

Be careful as well, I have lot of friends who took science subjects to just get onto a particular course and it did not end so well for the majority of them. You need to have a genuine interest in the subject at A level because you might have quite a hard two years otherwise. However, I took physics A level at grade B for GCSE and I am now studying it at university, so it depends on your interest to be honest.

For a psychology degree (having looked at that route myself) they generally ask for one science type subject and a qualitative based subject (e.g. English, philosophy etc.) Have a look at Psychology degree courses on the UCAS website and you will get the general idea of what universities are looking for.

Hope this helped.

Having done Psychology A level, maths is fairly helpful, but since they are trying to integrate more maths into the syllabus it wouldn't be a bad thing as you would have a bigger advantage at that aspect of the psychology course. Universities may also prefer you to have a subject like maths because there will be a lot of maths during your degree, which might stand you in better stead over other candidates. But your GCSE maths result will give you a good indication as to if you should do it or not. A grade B or above is ideal.

Be careful as well, I have lot of friends who took science subjects to just get onto a particular course and it did not end so well for the majority of them. You need to have a genuine interest in the subject at A level because you might have quite a hard two years otherwise. However, I took physics A level at grade B for GCSE and I am now studying it at university, so it depends on your interest to be honest.

For a psychology degree (having looked at that route myself) they generally ask for one science type subject and a qualitative based subject (e.g. English, philosophy etc.) Have a look at Psychology degree courses on the UCAS website and you will get the general idea of what universities are looking for.

Hope this helped.