would 5 a levels be excessive?
I want to study medicine or biomedicine at either Oxford or KCL, and want to go into a career in either research or psychiatry, I'm currently doing 11 gcses, and it's so difficult to chose which a levels to take. I need to take maths, biology and chemistry to get into the courses I want to take, but I'd like to take psychology and Sociology as additional subject. I know they won't be the most useful to my career, but I find the subjects so genuinely interesting and I have no clue what to do, should I take the 5 a levels and drop one or two if it's too much stress?
Original post by unlitredecitrons
I want to study medicine or biomedicine at either Oxford or KCL, and want to go into a career in either research or psychiatry, I'm currently doing 11 gcses, and it's so difficult to chose which a levels to take. I need to take maths, biology and chemistry to get into the courses I want to take, but I'd like to take psychology and Sociology as additional subject. I know they won't be the most useful to my career, but I find the subjects so genuinely interesting and I have no clue what to do, should I take the 5 a levels and drop one or two if it's too much stress?
5 A levels is excessive. I would even advise against taking 4 in this instance as the only cases where 4 A levels is recommended are when both maths and further maths are taken.
I would say stick with the three subjects you must take for definite and don’t take any more. You will likely thank yourself for doing so as at the start of year 13 (and the end of year 12), you will have to pour a lot of work into preparing for your uni applications. Having to split your time between that, having a life and all your A levels is a lot.
choose 3, much better than having the stress of 5
Original post by unlitredecitrons
I want to study medicine or biomedicine at either Oxford or KCL, and want to go into a career in either research or psychiatry, I'm currently doing 11 gcses, and it's so difficult to chose which a levels to take. I need to take maths, biology and chemistry to get into the courses I want to take, but I'd like to take psychology and Sociology as additional subject. I know they won't be the most useful to my career, but I find the subjects so genuinely interesting and I have no clue what to do, should I take the 5 a levels and drop one or two if it's too much stress?
Trust me, I understand that coming from GCSEs you might think 3 A-levels are not that many, but they will take SO much of your time and effort to study for them. I thought I could pull 4 A-levels and then I felt like dying with 3. You're very ambitious with the course and uni you want to go to, so you will be needing extremely high grades. That means that it's best to keep them at 3 and get A*/A. Unis don't care how many you do, they only care about the grades you get.
Original post by dvszcx
Trust me, I understand that coming from GCSEs you might think 3 A-levels are not that many, but they will take SO much of your time and effort to study for them. I thought I could pull 4 A-levels and then I felt like dying with 3. You're very ambitious with the course and uni you want to go to, so you will be needing extremely high grades. That means that it's best to keep them at 3 and get A*/A. Unis don't care how many you do, they only care about the grades you get.
thank you so much 💗
Original post by unlitredecitrons
I want to study medicine or biomedicine at either Oxford or KCL, and want to go into a career in either research or psychiatry, I'm currently doing 11 gcses, and it's so difficult to chose which a levels to take. I need to take maths, biology and chemistry to get into the courses I want to take, but I'd like to take psychology and Sociology as additional subject. I know they won't be the most useful to my career, but I find the subjects so genuinely interesting and I have no clue what to do, should I take the 5 a levels and drop one or two if it's too much stress?
5 isnt a good idea. Do you need to take Maths? I thought only chem and biology were needed for biomed and med (might be wrong though) except for at Cambridge. You could start with taking 4 subjects and then drop the one which you aren’t enjoying as much (as long as you dont drop bio or chem ofc). Hope this helps and happy to try and answer any more questions if you have them. Hope you have a great day 🙂
Original post by unlitredecitrons
I want to study medicine or biomedicine at either Oxford or KCL, and want to go into a career in either research or psychiatry, I'm currently doing 11 gcses, and it's so difficult to chose which a levels to take. I need to take maths, biology and chemistry to get into the courses I want to take, but I'd like to take psychology and Sociology as additional subject. I know they won't be the most useful to my career, but I find the subjects so genuinely interesting and I have no clue what to do, should I take the 5 a levels and drop one or two if it's too much stress?
If you want to do smth like this, look into the international baccalaureate
you could stick with maths, bio, chem and
take psychology or sociology as a 4th subject to see how you find the work load of 4 a levels (if you don’t struggle, you should be fine with continuing with 4 and can always drop one in year 13. If you struggle, you should drop not to impact your other grades) and the a levels (as the content will be different to gcse).
Or you could just do maths bio chem and do an EPQ (writing project/investigation worth half an a level) on a psychology/sociology related topic that interests you
if you change your mind about going into biomed at uni, you could probably do something psychology/sociology related without having taken the a level as long as you have another science subjects (like bio or chem) [double check this i’m not 100% sure]
Another alternative is taking AS psychology and/or sociology (if ur school offers it or u could do it independently (but it would be difficult) or get a tutor (if the cost of the tutor is affordable to you)). This would be the first year content and is worth half an a level. It would probably fill ur desire to study the subjects
take psychology or sociology as a 4th subject to see how you find the work load of 4 a levels (if you don’t struggle, you should be fine with continuing with 4 and can always drop one in year 13. If you struggle, you should drop not to impact your other grades) and the a levels (as the content will be different to gcse).
Or you could just do maths bio chem and do an EPQ (writing project/investigation worth half an a level) on a psychology/sociology related topic that interests you
if you change your mind about going into biomed at uni, you could probably do something psychology/sociology related without having taken the a level as long as you have another science subjects (like bio or chem) [double check this i’m not 100% sure]
Another alternative is taking AS psychology and/or sociology (if ur school offers it or u could do it independently (but it would be difficult) or get a tutor (if the cost of the tutor is affordable to you)). This would be the first year content and is worth half an a level. It would probably fill ur desire to study the subjects
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Original post by Iqster
you could stick with maths, bio, chem and
take psychology or sociology as a 4th subject to see how you find the work load of 4 a levels (if you don’t struggle, you should be fine with continuing with 4 and can always drop one in year 13. If you struggle, you should drop not to impact your other grades) and the a levels (as the content will be different to gcse).
Or you could just do maths bio chem and do an EPQ (writing project/investigation worth half an a level) on a psychology/sociology related topic that interests you
if you change your mind about going into biomed at uni, you could probably do something psychology/sociology related without having taken the a level as long as you have another science subjects (like bio or chem) [double check this i’m not 100% sure]
Another alternative is taking AS psychology and/or sociology (if ur school offers it or u could do it independently (but it would be difficult) or get a tutor (if the cost of the tutor is affordable to you)). This would be the first year content and is worth half an a level. It would probably fill ur desire to study the subjects
take psychology or sociology as a 4th subject to see how you find the work load of 4 a levels (if you don’t struggle, you should be fine with continuing with 4 and can always drop one in year 13. If you struggle, you should drop not to impact your other grades) and the a levels (as the content will be different to gcse).
Or you could just do maths bio chem and do an EPQ (writing project/investigation worth half an a level) on a psychology/sociology related topic that interests you
if you change your mind about going into biomed at uni, you could probably do something psychology/sociology related without having taken the a level as long as you have another science subjects (like bio or chem) [double check this i’m not 100% sure]
Another alternative is taking AS psychology and/or sociology (if ur school offers it or u could do it independently (but it would be difficult) or get a tutor (if the cost of the tutor is affordable to you)). This would be the first year content and is worth half an a level. It would probably fill ur desire to study the subjects
Thank you sm! 💗
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