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Deciding a level options

I'm actually quite stuck deciding between English literature and philosophy (a levels) I picked history and law already which I feel has a lot of content already and picking one more heavily loaded subject actually seems jarring. But I'm well aware that both are quite broad and packed and I have no issues but I want to pick the one that seems more logical and easier .... English literature is free because is my arguments most of the time and can be anything I choose but then again philosophy is also free because I already have the standard ideas and I just need to pick a path I choose to analyse and answer a question.
So I'm stuck English literature has been fun but I kinda suck at poetry but I'm not too sure about philosophy because I've never done it before so I'm like "what do I do? what do I do? " I've seen past papers and the philosophy exams seems straight to the point on the other hand the English papers look packed but quite fun .... You see I'm blabbing but I quite hate old type poetry so I shouldn't be picking lit but philosophy is new to me and I'm like "this is a huge problem"

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by Crownesse
I'm actually quite stuck deciding between English literature and philosophy (a levels) I picked history and law already which I feel has a lot of content already and picking one more heavily loaded subject actually seems jarring. But I'm well aware that both are quite broad and packed and I have no issues but I want to pick the one that seems more logical and easier .... English literature is free because is my arguments most of the time and can be anything I choose but then again philosophy is also free because I already have the standard ideas and I just need to pick a path I choose to analyse and answer a question.
So I'm stuck English literature has been fun but I kinda suck at poetry but I'm not too sure about philosophy because I've never done it before so I'm like "what do I do? what do I do? " I've seen past papers and the philosophy exams seems straight to the point on the other hand the English papers look packed but quite fun .... You see I'm blabbing but I quite hate old type poetry so I shouldn't be picking lit but philosophy is new to me and I'm like "this is a huge problem"

For all of these A levels you need to check which options your school follows within each syllabus.
This is especially important for Eng Lit - which set-texts will you actually be studying, and do these sound interesting. For the other subjects you need to talk to the teachers and look at the course materials - are these subjects what you thought they would be about, do they cover material that actually interests you.
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by McGinger
For all of these A levels you need to check which options your school follows within each syllabus.
This is especially important for Eng Lit - which set-texts will you actually be studying, and do these sound interesting. For the other subjects you need to talk to the teachers and look at the course materials - are these subjects what you thought they would be about, do they cover material that actually interests you.

Oh thank you so much I try that

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