I have to pick (switch) my a level options in 9 days and I’m still not sure about them. I’m 100% set on politics but I’m worried that the amount of content and essays will be difficult and very time consuming. My other options would be psychology, however the teacher’s supposedly not very good so probably not, drama, or biology which there’s also loads of content for but it’s learnt in a different way. I’m very good at drama and find the practical parts easy but the exam may be quite boring. I could also switch eng lit to lit lang which might take some pressure off the workload?
I also only started looking at history properly a few weeks ago after seeing how well it would go with politics (I do enjoy history) and I’ve heard really good things about the history department in the new school. I’m not really sure why I wanted to do English lit so badly but I guess I really enjoyed learning it during revision for GCSEs and decided after that (most of the revision I did for GCSEs wasn’t revision it was just learning from scratch because I’d struggled to concentrate due to ADHD and other factors).
I’d also like to do an EPQ.
I really don’t know what to expect for my GCSE results cause i only managed to sort my school life out quite recently but I failed half my yr 10 mocks, passed everything with 5s and 6s (except Spanish) in my year 11 mocks and I think I’m expecting 6s and 7s with a lot of revision only being done the day before for my GCSEs (obviously can’t do that for a levels but for GCSEs I didn’t really know what I was doing. I also learnt much better during solo study than in lessons which meant it was quite hard to learn in a lot of subjects). I’m now in a much better place academically and know which methods of learning and study are best for me.
If anyone has any tips or helpful comments about any of this it would be very much appreciated.