Maths, further maths, physics and geography a levels?

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I’m going into Year 11 so will be picking A-levels soon. I am predicted mostly 9s in GCSEs and know I want to go to uni to do either maths, engineering, physics, geography or something else sort of like that. Most people at my school only do 3 A-levels, is 4 going to be too many and are they a useful combination? Thanks

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Cam3r0n

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Original post by Adrian4082

I’m going into Year 11 so will be picking A-levels soon. I am predicted mostly 9s in GCSEs and know I want to go to uni to do either maths, engineering, physics, geography or something else sort of like that. Most people at my school only do 3 A-levels, is 4 going to be too many and are they a useful combination? Thanks

Try 4, see if it’s too much and drop after a couple months if necessary.
As a combination, maths, further maths, and physics satisfy requirements for most courses, but watch out for them not counting further maths as a full alevel. Geography is a nice extra for you.

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Cam3r0n

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Original post by Cam3r0n

Try 4, see if it’s too much and drop after a couple months if necessary.
As a combination, maths, further maths, and physics satisfy requirements for most courses, but watch out for them not counting further maths as a full alevel. Geography is a nice extra for you.

Of course, if you’re interested in geography then it’s very useful…

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DerDracologe

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Taking 4 with one being further maths is the most common way to take 4 and is absolutely fine if you have the ability and interest in maths to study the further maths course. If it gets too much workload or difficulty wise you can always drop one! Maths, fm and physics complent each other well and if geog interests you its a great addition :smile:

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Nat4695

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IMO four a levels was one of the worst decisions I ever made bc of my subject choice, I’m going into y13 now and continuing with physics chemistry and maths, and so much better and have improved like ten fold though the course of my summer revision, my fourth was biology and I kept it just to add “variety” (idek) it just ended up being my dreaded subject, wasted at least 7hours a week on it that I could have spent on extracurriculars and life lol. Go ahead and try it out but do not feel pressured to keep 4, especially if you’re not as interested in one of them. Plus for me it was a waste of time anyway since I knew I wanted to study physics at uni.

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strong-pedestria

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Original post by Adrian4082

I’m going into Year 11 so will be picking A-levels soon. I am predicted mostly 9s in GCSEs and know I want to go to uni to do either maths, engineering, physics, geography or something else sort of like that. Most people at my school only do 3 A-levels, is 4 going to be too many and are they a useful combination? Thanks

Hey. I did the same subject combination, only without further maths, and in September I will be studying aerospace engineering. I'd say there's no need to do 4 A-levels especially when most uni's don't consider it to be advantageous over a student taking 3. The subjects you chose aren't easy especially if you are doing further maths on top of this, despite maths and further maths complimenting each other. Bear in mind that geography is very broad and this unfortunately means there is a LOT to remember on top of the case study's. All these subjects require lots of time dedicated to them. This may be setting yourself up to get burnt out, but as many have pointed out, there's no harm in taking 4 and then dropping a subject after a few months.

All the best!

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