Advice for A level private candidate

Hello guys, I'm 29 and decided to go back to school, just finished GCSE English language and Maths in June and preparing to do A level from August or September.

I'm planning to do 3 A levels which are Maths, Accounting and Chinese, since I'm not native English speaker so I'll do IELTS for prove of English, should I do one more AS level just in case? (If yes I'm going to do psychology for AS)

I'm from Hong Kong so I can use Cantonese and traditional Chinese for my Chinese A level exam, I know some unis might not recognise a native language as an A level, but I've checked the requirements some of the unis still recognise the subject, and this is the only subject that I can ace it, so why not🤣

So my question is, is it too much for a mature student as I still need to work 32 hours per week, can anyone advise me how can do a good time management for 3 A levels and an English exam (maybe plus one more AS level)

Thank you so much in advance

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Original post by ting1211mok

Hello guys, I'm 29 and decided to go back to school, just finished GCSE English language and Maths in June and preparing to do A level from August or September.
I'm planning to do 3 A levels which are Maths, Accounting and Chinese, since I'm not native English speaker so I'll do IELTS for prove of English, should I do one more AS level just in case? (If yes I'm going to do psychology for AS)
I'm from Hong Kong so I can use Cantonese and traditional Chinese for my Chinese A level exam, I know some unis might not recognise a native language as an A level, but I've checked the requirements some of the unis still recognise the subject, and this is the only subject that I can ace it, so why not🤣
So my question is, is it too much for a mature student as I still need to work 32 hours per week, can anyone advise me how can do a good time management for 3 A levels and an English exam (maybe plus one more AS level)
Thank you so much in advance

Hi,

Well done for finishing your GCSE's!

Doing 3 A levels alongside 32 hours a week of work is quite a lot! You may find it quite intense and challenging, as there is quite a lot of content to cover for A level exams.

Do you know what you are wanting to study at university? Some university's will offer a mature student offer scheme, to help those over 21 get back into education. These offers do tend to have lower entry requirements, as opposed to the requirements for students that have just left school aged 18 to 20.

I have linked the Mature offer scheme for YSJ below.
Mature entry offer scheme | York St John University (yorksj.ac.uk)

Hope this helps,
Suzan - Student Ambassador