Has anyone self-taught themselves any A-levels?

I'm pretty much self teaching politics... But I properly self-taught myself AS economics and I'm currently self-teaching A-level economics, considering I got an A at AS it wasn't a complete disaster. If you plan to self-teach and want an online course, the best thing would be uplearn. I believe by next year they'll have maths, economics, history, physics, politics, and a few more.

Economics is a tough one and so is history (I attempted Self-teaching history, I was getting B's/A's in the Britiain module which I finished but the USA one was just too much... so I pulled out). If you do history you have the freedom of choosing your own topics which is great. If you do politics you have that freedom too I guess.

I personally find everything in politics easy to grasp except some stuff in the USA such as congressional committees and federal agencies (I think everyone struggles with theses) but in terms of ease, politics is by far the best and easiest to self-teach. I'm not familiar with the new spec but if you self-teach politics DONT opt for the USA option, do UK + ideologies. NOT UK + USA since its useless imo, you basically learn the same thing but in the context of America and have to learn the American system - something not even Obama could master and I don't even need to mention trump.



Also with ideologies you'll cover some sociology, some history and of course some politics but I think the emphasis would be on history and current government policies.

If you want to self teach politics try getting a "pre chewed politics account"

Also History A2 has coursework idk how that would work when self teaching.

For History im going to retake britain and USA too aha. For Politics ima bit worried because there is a 45 marker and without a teacher wont this be too much? Luckily I already do co and history this year for A2 so wont be as bad.

Has anyone done this? If so, what subject(s) did you do?
Is it difficult?
I am thinking to self teach myself A-levels in a gap year and I am thinking of doing either History, Politics, Sociology.
I don't mind any other suggestions if possible.
Thanks

I've been self-teaching myself maths which has been alright - mainly because I can easily mark things etc and it's quite easy to work through by myself.

I did sociology A Level and had to teach myself bits and pieces of the course because my attendace at college dropped for various reasons and it wasn't too bad - I got a B overall, which I was pleased with, although I had hoped for an A.

I can definitley recommend soicology as a subject and it seems as though it would fit nicely with the other 2 subjects as well!

Be aware though that it will be quite hard to accuratley mark essays and stuff because it is so subjective, but working through the content on your own should be ok!


If you do decide to do sociology, then feel free to PM me for resources and stuff

I'm pretty much self teaching politics... But I properly self-taught myself AS economics and I'm currently self-teaching A-level economics, considering I got an A at AS it wasn't a complete disaster. If you plan to self-teach and want an online course, the best thing would be uplearn. I believe by next year they'll have maths, economics, history, physics, politics, and a few more.

Economics is a tough one and so is history (I attempted Self-teaching history, I was getting B's/A's in the Britiain module which I finished but the USA one was just too much... so I pulled out). If you do history you have the freedom of choosing your own topics which is great. If you do politics you have that freedom too I guess.

I personally find everything in politics easy to grasp except some stuff in the USA such as congressional committees and federal agencies (I think everyone struggles with theses) but in terms of ease, politics is by far the best and easiest to self-teach. I'm not familiar with the new spec but if you self-teach politics DONT opt for the USA option, do UK + ideologies. NOT UK + USA since its useless imo, you basically learn the same thing but in the context of America and have to learn the American system - something not even Obama could master and I don't even need to mention trump.

Also with ideologies you'll cover some sociology, some history and of course some politics but I think the emphasis would be on history and current government policies.

Where do you sit the exam if you do it at home, I want to take bio and chem externally

My school didn't have a teacher for it so I just used examsolutions lol. They paid for everything. Got an A

My school didn't have a teacher for it so I just used examsolutions lol. They paid for everything. Got an A

there are quite a few topics in fp3 and m3 that exam solutions hasnt covered so how did you study those? I just gave my AS exams and am considering doing A level fm in my A2 year

Self-taught Maths, Further Maths and Physics. Honestly, so glad that I had to self-teach and didn't have to go through the whole slow classroom pace thing.

I can't really speak on behalf of arts/humanities subjects, but right now I'm at a college where I'm pretty much self teaching A Level computer science due to the quality of teaching being so awful, and teachers constantly leaving.

I'm finding it OK, but in all honesty being able to have a teacher to teach the subject and go over areas that you're unsure on helps a LOT.

I self taught A-Level Chemistry and A-Level History.

For science, it was difficult because I could not find a school which would allow me to sit the practical exams there, so I forfeited them (get 0) and just sat the exams, which made it a lot harder. In terms of exam content, it was quite easy to self-study for this subject actually as little goblets of information are all that was needed for the exams really.

For history, this was more challenging, make good use of the examiners reports and read a lot of papers to widen your vocab and be able to make a good argument using knowledge to drive all arguments and you can do well. Revising for the exams was fine for this, again just loads of key dates and information to recall.

Self-study builds good independent study skills for university study, and I can say that my self-study really helped me make the transition into university style learning, where you are really left to your own devices and not spoon-fed information.

Hi
I hope you are well I am self teaching myself a level chemistry I do OCR A please can you tell me the resources you used and how you revised and if it is possible to get an A* .

thank you

This is an extremely old thread, so you might not get an answer from the OPs.

KhanAcademy is a good shout. Well structured and free. I didn’t take A levels but used it to get through complex calculus for an engineering degree.