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Arts vs. Sciences

My College - A-level numbers for 2003-04

HIGHEST ENTRIES - ART SUBJECTS

Art (Various Types) - 94
Business Studies - 79
English Lang & Lit - 52
English Lit - 67
History - 104
Law - 63
Photography - 68

ENTRIES - SCIENCE SUBJECTS

Biology - 44
Biology (Human) - 14
Chemistry - 29
Electronics - 26
Environmental Science - 23
Geography - 84
Geology - 21
Maths - 70
Physics - 43

Reply 41

Wise One

11

polthegael

People do arts subjects...? WHY...? :confused:

People do science subjects...? WHY...? :confused:

Reply 42

LH

15

jumpunderaboat

subjects like English...don't even call upon basic mathematical techniques.

Not true! If you hand write an essay you have to count the words! :tongue:

Reply 43

RachelBabyfrog

14

I'm an arts student :smile:

I do English, History and RS and did AS German.

English is the most popular course in our sixth form. There are three classes, totalling about 40 people, and there were probably about 55 doing AS last year. History is probably the next most popular one... or maybe Biology.

Reply 44

Fade Into Black

I agree with the governments statement at least within my school... we have aloads of ppl doin art or sociology ( the humanities stuff) but hardly anyone doin the sciences or maths... I dunno wether our school is the norm though.
Im more of a science guy rather than art still :smile:

Reply 45

kellywood_5

17

Wise One

People do science subjects...? WHY...? :confused:

LOL!

Reply 46

blissy

15

Cellardore

why is Art and English silly :confused:

Please, elaborate.

Yes, Pol, please elaborate.

Reply 47

......?

We have about um, 500 i think for maths and 500 for psychology, same for english lit+lang and about 250 for art.

Reply 48

Pegasus

2

I'm doing a mixture of subjects! Its the best way to go :cool:

At my college everyone I know seems to be doing Psychology, so I guess that would be the most popular.

Reply 49

Syntax

13

I'm doing mostly sciencey subjects.. and there was a much larger intake this year at my school for sciences.

There's 19 people in my Maths class, 20 in Bio and about 15 in Chem.
Then again.. TONS of people are doing English, History etc..

Reply 50

Jump

18

Cellardore

I did Geography at GCSE and came across no mathmatical skills whatsoever.

So did I, but I didn't in Double award Science either :eek:

. Generally I'm talking about when studying at A level or for a degree though, in which case I'm sure a certain degree of ability in Mathematics and Statistics (possibly even Mechanics for Physical Geog...) would be essential.

Reply 51

smallthoms

OP

2

The media is to blame for the huge uptake of Science in my school. You hear on the news about people getting grants to do these subjects at uni and so on and so forth.

There are some very average students in my school's Science and Maths classes who think that they'll be able to walk into an exciting job that will make them millionaires by the time they are 30, just because. Perhaps that's an exaggeration but there's definitely some truth in it. I've heard some of these people say as much.

Reply 52

undiscovered

13

silent p......?

We have about um, 500 i think for maths and 500 for psychology, same for english lit+lang and about 250 for art.

*chokes on food* 500?! Woah, you must have one almighty college! There are only 200 in my entire 6th form!

Reply 53

undiscovered

13

Look at the poll!

31 for each option!

Reply 54

shifty99

Mate...arts vrs sciences, its a stupid notion
you choose a subject which you enjoy
i do arts for example, simply because i found sciences hard, GCSE level- yesi got good grades, but still the theory behind the text was complex

Reply 55

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SiAnY

*chokes on food* 500?! Woah, you must have one almighty college! There are only 200 in my entire 6th form!

um, i think theres around 2000 in the whole college, its quite popular

Although I've heard of a college with 10,000 students somewhere.

Reply 56

LittleMissShine

1

silent p......?

um, i think theres around 2000 in the whole college, its quite popular

Although I've heard of a college with 10,000 students somewhere.

10,000

Theres only like 1000 in my 6th form.

Reply 57

Kew

16