Alevel english literature, english language and psychology

Hello
I'm thinking of doing these at alevel and I'm wondering if anyone might tell me their personal experiences if they've done any of the subjects I've listed, I love English at gcse ( more so lit than lang but I'm on 7's for both as of my March mock ) and psychology sounds really interesting and I think would compliment my two other subjects nicely ( since psychology does analyse the human mind and it might help with my own analysis for english ) if anyone does have their own personal expreince with any of these subjects please tell me about them, I'd love to hear
Thanks for reading my essay lol
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i’m a Year 13 studying english lit and going on to do it at uni!
If you enjoy it at GCSE i’d absolutely recommend it at A-Level! I picked it last minute without knowing whether I would like it or not and ended up really loving it!
Content wise, there is a LOT more to learn and you typically have to study longer/more advanced texts than GCSE so it can be a bit of a jump, but there is so much more opportunity to develop your own writing style which I really enjoyed. I also love how much depth you get to study the texts in, in my experience the things i’ve studied at A level have been so so much more interesting than GCSE
I’d say the only negative is that it can be a bit of a drag if you end up having to study a text you dislike, and the content can sometimes be a little overwhelming but as long as you’re willing to stay on top of it it’s definitely worth taking!

I do A level psychology and I would say that if you are doing English, don't do psych because both are very content heavy.
Especially psychology, where you can only get a C with just the info. You have to develop various skills and methods to be able to achieve a B. Ig you can do that, then please go ahead but be smart about it.
Hope this helps

Hello
I'm thinking of doing these at alevel and I'm wondering if anyone might tell me their personal experiences if they've done any of the subjects I've listed, I love English at gcse ( more so lit than lang but I'm on 7's for both as of my March mock ) and psychology sounds really interesting and I think would compliment my two other subjects nicely ( since psychology does analyse the human mind and it might help with my own analysis for english ) if anyone does have their own personal expreince with any of these subjects please tell me about them, I'd love to hear
Thanks for reading my essay lol
🙂

Are you going to gey bored with all the 'English'?
What do you intend to do after A levels - if Uni, do you have any ideas about the sort of degree subject or career that interests you?

hi i only do psychology out of these 3 (I do geography and politics also) and I would say the other two are more demanding to me personally (politics is complete essays etc). it was kind of a “filler” subject as i didn’t know what to pick and thought it may be interesting- and it is to be honest! I really enjoy it as its topics are very interesting, yet also the papers structure are similar (yet harder as it’s a level) to gcse science. I was never really into english but in psychology there is a lot of analysis etc. so you may enjoy that also )

Do you think you need to be good at gcse science for psychology because I do foundation science at gcse right now, thank you for your insight though

i did triple science and got bio: 5 chem: 6 and physics: 5, so not exceptional at them but okay. to be honest i think you’ll be fine if it’s the content that you might struggle with, because the content is very different, it’s more similar for the layout of the questions etc. you get some multiple choice, some longer etc. I think you’d be fine if you’ve done foundation science, maybe look at some past paper questions if your not 100% )

Thanks, I'm getting similar ( 4-5 ) as of last mocks, this reassures me thanks

no worries ) even if your not especially good at one thing etc you can always improve i was so worried for maths failed the year 10 mocks and ended with a 6. Good luck with your GCSE’s !!

I'm not sure about English language as I don’t study it but I do study English literature and psychology. I find that English literature A level is a lot like GCSE in terms of the analysis, and essays. I study different books but The Handmaids Tale is apparently really good. I find that A level psychology slightly reminds me of biology GCSE plus we do have biopsychology but there’s not much bio content overall. In psychology there’s a lot to remember and some essay writing which is usually the evaluation of theories and experiments but since you enjoy English it’s likely not something to worry about. There’s also research methods which is mathematical content like mean, mode and percentages/scattergraphs. I’d say to maybe look at past papers, example essays or summaries of your books to see if you’d enjoy those subjects

I'm not sure about English language as I don’t study it but I do study English literature and psychology. I find that English literature A level is a lot like GCSE in terms of the analysis, and essays. I study different books but The Handmaids Tale is apparently really good. I find that A level psychology slightly reminds me of biology GCSE plus we do have biopsychology but there’s not much bio content overall. In psychology there’s a lot to remember and some essay writing which is usually the evaluation of theories and experiments but since you enjoy English it’s likely not something to worry about. There’s also research methods which is mathematical content like mean, mode and percentages/scattergraphs. I’d say to maybe look at past papers, example essays or summaries of your books to see if you’d enjoy those subjects

HelloI'm thinking of doing these at alevel and I'm wondering if anyone might tell me their personal experiences if they've done any of the subjects I've listed, I love English at gcse ( more so lit than lang but I'm on 7's for both as of my March mock ) and psychology sounds really interesting and I think would compliment my two other subjects nicely ( since psychology does analyse the human mind and it might help with my own analysis for english ) if anyone does have their own personal expreince with any of these subjects please tell me about them, I'd love to hearThanks for reading my essay lol🙂

For psychology do you think you need to be very knowledgeable in maths or is it possible to get by with a basic knowledge of maths, thanks 🙂 and how long are the questions for it at a maxium