Access to HE: Science

While the course I'm doing is different (Access to Humanities and Social Sciences) you will be assessed via multiple methods from written essays, examinations and reports as well as presentation and work books.
I will warn you in my experience the course load particularly after Christmas ramps up snd gets very intense.
So far it's been rough and I'm looking at my first year of uni as being relaxing by comparison

Thank you for your response. How do you revise for your course? Are you given books/resources from your college because I assume there's nothing online to help with.
Good luck with your course. I hope you do as well as you hope!

Hi, this September I will begin an Access to HE course in Science. I've never done an access course before of course so I was wondering how this works? As in how will I revise? With what material? I know I should ask the college I've applied to but I want to hear from people who have already completed an access course or from those who currently are doing one. I'm not familiar with how I will be assessed and how the entire course in general will work.

@An0nym0us12
Hello
I've taught on Access for over 10 years - welcome to your course, I am sure you will do great
Access is like 3 A levels squashed into one year, they are called modules though and depending on your pathway combination will do subjects like Chemistry, Biology, Physics etc. A typical Access program is made up of 60 credits, 45 credits from the assignment, and 15 ungraded development units - the latter are things like study skills, presentation skills, report writing - some providers have these met by evidence from the actual science assignments which saves a lot of time.
Typical assessment methods for science are essays, reports, model demonstrations (of molecules for instance), presentations, posters, booklets etc. Assessment methods now are a bit more creative due to the potential for A.I to write a standard essay for someone.
A standard Level 3 essay would be about 2,500 words.
There is usually recommended reading, but, the sign of a distinction level piece of work is going above and beyond what you have learnt in the session and demonstrating further reading.
Most programs will provide academic support and help with your UCAS application too 🙂
Marc
Arden University Student Ambassador

@An0nym0us12
Hello
I've taught on Access for over 10 years - welcome to your course, I am sure you will do great
Access is like 3 A levels squashed into one year, they are called modules though and depending on your pathway combination will do subjects like Chemistry, Biology, Physics etc. A typical Access program is made up of 60 credits, 45 credits from the assignment, and 15 ungraded development units - the latter are things like study skills, presentation skills, report writing - some providers have these met by evidence from the actual science assignments which saves a lot of time.
Typical assessment methods for science are essays, reports, model demonstrations (of molecules for instance), presentations, posters, booklets etc. Assessment methods now are a bit more creative due to the potential for A.I to write a standard essay for someone.
A standard Level 3 essay would be about 2,500 words.
There is usually recommended reading, but, the sign of a distinction level piece of work is going above and beyond what you have learnt in the session and demonstrating further reading.
Most programs will provide academic support and help with your UCAS application too 🙂
Marc
Arden University Student Ambassador

Following on from this, you can set up your ucas account and begin researching university choices well before you start in september. I had my options and choices narrowed down before then and a draft of my person statement ready to go.
This really helped as september to october pressure was on to make sure these were done and as I'd already laid most of the ground work i was free to take time out from the intensive study course to visit universities and ease into the workload of an access course.