5 alevels - workload and is it worth it? Uni applications etc

Hey so I'm currently taking 5 alevels in yr 12 which are

OCR further maths
OCR maths
Edexcel English Lit.
Edexcel Geography
Edexcel Japanese

Japanese is the language I speak at home and I'm planning to take it this year. Can I still put it forward as one of my three alevels i take to uni as I'm pretty certain that I'm gonna get an astar. Issue is I heard unis like oxbridge don't like it if u take languages early....

Also should I drop further maths at the end of year 12? I enjoy it but it's a lot of hard work and I'm not doing sciences at uni.

Take three plus Japanese if you think you can cope - but really do you need to take Japanese, whats the point apart from a vanity project? FIVE subjects is totally ridiculous.

No University requires more than 3 A levels - and AAA will always look better than BBBBB because you took on too much.

5 doesn't help with uni applications - I'm doing 5! It just took me forever to fill in the Cambridge SAQ with all topics studied. And it gave me more choices for the NSAA (although I did the same science for both sections, so...)

For your uni three A levels, they all have to be taken in the same year. So, if you do a language early, that's great! Oxford won't hate it. It shows that you're good. However, it won't be in your offer and you need another three (sorry). Imperial College might accept early maths - I don't know.

I would drop FM at the end of year 12 if you’re going to get an AS in it. Otherwise drop it earlier if you don’t need it for a maths/science degree

They speak Japanese (I am assuming it's their native tongue I mean it's a free A-level lol) but yeah doing 5 A-levels is bad imo the OP should only do 4 imo (3 if Japanese isn't their home tongue).

Not necessarily. Many, many native speakers struggle to do well on the oral and written exams because they're much too colloquial and don't actively know to employ sophisticated grammar or vocabulary.

I actually know a lot of native speakers who barely scraped or missed A grades. Native speakers can often be some of the toughest to teach A level MFL to because the academic side of their language sounds incredibly foreign and unnatural to them.

Never mind what they say about languages. I did Italian A-Level in Y12 and Oxford included it in my offer.

Hey! What did u do at oxford and what did the offer look like if you don't mind me asking

yeah it practically is dyu think I should drop further maths?

Not necessarily. Many, many native speakers struggle to do well on the oral and written exams because they're much too colloquial and don't actively know to employ sophisticated grammar or vocabulary.

I actually know a lot of native speakers who barely scraped or missed A grades. Native speakers can often be some of the toughest to teach A level MFL to because the academic side of their language sounds incredibly foreign and unnatural to them.