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Can I do psychology at uni if i failed my GCSE???

Hi ya'll
Lat summer I found out that I completely failed my GCSEs and this may i am resitting my GCSEs but I am really sacred what if i fail again then would that decrease my chance of getting to uni and here's the A levels that I wanna do Psychology bio and chem Can I resit my GCSEs this year and then do A-levels next year and can I still do psychology at uni.

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I meant last

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Original post by imposing-jigsaw
I meant last


You need your GCSEs for uni, or you can’t even do alevels without them revise hard and you’ll be fine this year learn from your mistakes, alevels are a lot harder than GCSEs so get into the hang of revising now, find ur revision method and do a lot of practice questions if u want to go to uni to do psychology u need to be prepared on how to revise and memorise
Original post by imposing-jigsaw
Hi ya'll
Lat summer I found out that I completely failed my GCSEs and this may i am resitting my GCSEs but I am really sacred what if i fail again then would that decrease my chance of getting to uni and here's the A levels that I wanna do Psychology bio and chem Can I resit my GCSEs this year and then do A-levels next year and can I still do psychology at uni.

Just checking are you taking a gap year right now (as in this year you haven't started a levels/year 12 yet) to study for the GCSEs?

You'll need to have at least passed English Lan and Maths at GCSE to apply to most unis I think generally. Having google psychology at 3 random unis...

Bristol - need a 6 in Maths. A 6 in English Lan if it's not your first language

Leicester - Five subjects at grade 4/C to include English Language, Mathematics or Statistics, and a science (acceptable science subjects are Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Science or Additional Science)

Manchester - Normally require at least five GCSEs at minimum grade B/6, including English Language and Mathematics

So you want to aim for at least 6s in Maths, English Lan and ideally your sciences to open your options up as much as possible

I currently take bio and chem at a level, and at GCSE I got A*s. These are two extremely difficult a levels, especially chemistry. I'm not saying that to gloat or anything, just a little heads up if you don't get 7s+ in your science GCSEs this year, that it will be difficult to get good grades for these at A level. By no means impossible, and if you develop good strategies for revision and do well in GCSEs you could do it. At this point though I'd advise maybe looking at alternative subjects as well, for example Medical Sciences instead of Biology, or an alternative for Chem.

Psychology at a level has so much content and quite a lot of statistics. Biology also a lot of content. Chemistry decent amount of content but if you don't understand the principles of how it works it is hard to do well in.

None of this is meant to scare you, it's great that you are thinking ahead now about your future.

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Original post by study23!
Just checking are you taking a gap year right now (as in this year you haven't started a levels/year 12 yet) to study for the GCSEs?
You'll need to have at least passed English Lan and Maths at GCSE to apply to most unis I think generally. Having google psychology at 3 random unis...

Bristol - need a 6 in Maths. A 6 in English Lan if it's not your first language

Leicester - Five subjects at grade 4/C to include English Language, Mathematics or Statistics, and a science (acceptable science subjects are Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Science or Additional Science)

Manchester - Normally require at least five GCSEs at minimum grade B/6, including English Language and Mathematics

So you want to aim for at least 6s in Maths, English Lan and ideally your sciences to open your options up as much as possible
I currently take bio and chem at a level, and at GCSE I got A*s. These are two extremely difficult a levels, especially chemistry. I'm not saying that to gloat or anything, just a little heads up if you don't get 7s+ in your science GCSEs this year, that it will be difficult to get good grades for these at A level. By no means impossible, and if you develop good strategies for revision and do well in GCSEs you could do it. At this point though I'd advise maybe looking at alternative subjects as well, for example Medical Sciences instead of Biology, or an alternative for Chem.
Psychology at a level has so much content and quite a lot of statistics. Biology also a lot of content. Chemistry decent amount of content but if you don't understand the principles of how it works it is hard to do well in.
None of this is meant to scare you, it's great that you are thinking ahead now about your future.


I agree with u completely except psychology at alevel doesn’t have that much maths or stats I did it and honestly it’s nothing it’s GCSE level
Original post by Moon12”
I agree with u completely except psychology at alevel doesn’t have that much maths or stats I did it and honestly it’s nothing it’s GCSE level

Perhaps different exam boards or my friend is over exaggerating on the maths 😂

You’ll know better though as I don’t take the subject myself.

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