Are 3 Intensive A levels doable?

I'm 18 and will start a levels this September. I'm thinking of enrolling into 3 intensive A levels, which are chemistry, biology and psychology (I need to make my mind up fast lol). But is it doable? As someone who just gave GCSE resits (not because I failed them or anything, I'm new to the uk and had to do a resit programme to give them).
But am I overshooting? People online are catastrophising the difficult of standard 2 year a levels, so will 1 year intensives be impossible? I want to opt for them so I can catch up as I'm already a couple years behind (gave gcses at 17).
Do you guys think it's doable? Is it overkill? Advice?

You doing this at Westking? I think psychology isn't too bad to do in a year, and biology - honestly not sure about chemistry. I did an A level intensive in Bio this year, and didn't find it TOO bad - things did get a bit rushed towards the end of the year though. Perhaps see how you do with one/two A levels this year, and then do another intensive course next year? I feel like three in one year would be a bit hectic, and a lot of the people I knew who had no A levels were spreading them out e.g. two this year, one next and vice versa.

Remember that its not 'one year' - its more like 8 months between September and the start of revision/exams.
Yes, people manage it but usually because they are resitting A levels, and not starting from point zero. Be aware that its not going to be easy. Why are you not taking them over 2 years?

Yeah kingsway westmin. May I ask what grade you got for bio after doing it intensively? I generally feel most confident for bio as a subject just because theory and writing is not too bad for me. Cuz I feel like intensive a levels are very exam focused. I was new to the country and hadnt really been studying anything past year 9, so i had to take a retake course which covered 2 years of content in 7 months and found it OK, I only even studied towards the end of the year. But that was gcse which I know is say easier.

Yeah kingsway westmin. May I ask what grade you got for bio after doing it intensively? I generally feel most confident for bio as a subject just because theory and writing is not too bad for me. Cuz I feel like intensive a levels are very exam focused. I was new to the country and hadnt really been studying anything past year 9, so i had to take a retake course which covered 2 years of content in 7 months and found it OK, I only even studied towards the end of the year. But that was gcse which I know is say easier.

I must say, my situation is completely different to yours - I was originally sitting three A levels at sixth form, but dropped two A levels in year 13 due to various reasons and thus completed the two remaining A levels this year (Bio at Westking, Sociology I taught myself and sat privately). I've only just sat Biology and Sociology, so will find out my grade in August - I was predicted A* by the college, but I'm personally aiming for an A.
I started in September with minimal knowledge of AQA A Level Biology (the exam board the college uses), as I had done OCR Biology at my old sixth form until the end of year 12. Honestly, I did not find AQA A Level Biology that difficult to learn over the course of this year. To be honest, I didn't find the teaching at the college that great but they do give you a lot of different resources that you can use. To be honest, my attendance was around 30% throughout the year so I largely taught myself the course, so I can't really speak much about the college. I found that doing a lot of different past paper questions, exam questions etc. really helped me to solidify the content (I used cognito, uplearn, and topic exam questions from Physics and Maths tutor etc.). Some people on my course did struggle a bit with Biology, but again, I honestly didn't find it that bad and its worth a shot.
I'm not sure if you're enrolling this year September? But if you are, then you obviously have a few months to cover some of the content for biology, chem etc. Even better if you're looking to enrol next year. I believe the college will require you to sit entrance exams, however, for Biology, Psychology and Chemistry - so you will already need some base knowledge for chem and bio - they will send out a list of topics you need to know (I think - this is what they did last year anyway).
Would you not consider doing an access to higher education course? Or does the course you want to do not accept that - I assume you want to do medicine or something?

I'll enrol this September yeah but I was just curious about the content itself because I'm aiming high for my grades and as an intensive course is so compressed I didn't want to underachieve. On the other hand I don't want to go for the standard 2 year route if the intensive is doable just because I'll feel more confident if I can finish a levels ASAP. I consider myself a pretty good student tbf 🤷*♂️ maybe there's resources online that I can look at or test myself with to see what level I'm working on and determine if the intensive is right for me? Idk

I think, try and cover some content now and see how it goes - you can find specific topic tests on PMT, and other websites that you can specifically test yourself on the knowledge that you've just learned. For example, teach yourself/ cover the content from the first topic (biological molecules) and then find a topic test for biological molecules, do it, and then see how you did. The same goes for Psychology/ Chemistry. Honestly, I think a lot of younger people find the two year A level course difficult because they're... young, and they're brain is a little less developed. I personally found Biology incredibly difficult from ages 16-17, took a year out from it, and found it far easier at ages 18-19. I don't doubt your aptitude for learning, and you can definitely do a lot in a year.
See how you go first, and if you feel like three is too much then you can probably just drop one and do it next year - there's no shame in it... I was initially doing politics A level intensive, as well as Biology A level intensive but wasn't enjoying Politics that much and so dropped it to teach myself Sociology (this was in November, so had less time to cover Sociology but it ended up turning out fine).
I also covered a large portion of the Psychology content in a few months in 2024 and found Psychology fairly easy. I would really recommend Uplearn for Psychology, Biology and Chemistry if you can afford it. You can also get it for free if your parents earn under a certain threshold, if you still live with them. I would say it is worth it for the money, though.
https://www.physicsandmathstutor.com/biology-revision/a-level-aqa/

That's SOLID advice, I SO will do that and test myself to test the waters and see how I'm finding it. Probably do it for chem too and maybe Psychology. I'l definitely check out uplearn too! Thanks so much!

I'm 18 and will start a levels this September. I'm thinking of enrolling into 3 intensive A levels, which are chemistry, biology and psychology (I need to make my mind up fast lol). But is it doable? As someone who just gave GCSE resits (not because I failed them or anything, I'm new to the uk and had to do a resit programme to give them).
But am I overshooting? People online are catastrophising the difficult of standard 2 year a levels, so will 1 year intensives be impossible? I want to opt for them so I can catch up as I'm already a couple years behind (gave gcses at 17).
Do you guys think it's doable? Is it overkill? Advice?

What course or career are you intending to pursue? You're 18 so you can do an Access to Higher Education diploma instead of A levels and be done inside a year?

Biomedical science like something in drug research

Ok so you might be a prime candidate to get onto that kind of course via an Access to HE diploma.