pls help A level choices

hi 🙂 i'm in year 13 and i take maths, further maths, physics and chemistry. there are a lot of overlap between these subject so it's more manageable than other 4-subject combos. you certainly don't need to take four subjects but if you think you'd enjoy chemistry and do well in it without detriment to your other subjects, it compliments the others really well and would keep open other options (such as chem eng) if you end up changing your mind about what you want to do
if there's any specific you'd like to ask, i'd be more than happy to help

Why dont u do four a levels to start off. If you feel early on in yr 12 the workload is too much you can drop one.

Hii. I'm year 13 as well, i take 3 a level subjects, and quite a few of my friends took 4 subjects to begin with and dropped 1 to take three. It depends on how you can manage them I think. I mean me personally, I couldn't see myself doing 4 a levels i struggle with three 😃, but not to discourage you or anything, but you can start with 4, then if you want to you can drop down to three. One of my friends in year 13 dropped chemistry and now she does maths, physics, futher maths and it's working fine for her i think .

Ask ur sixth form im sure u can at most sixth forms

I'm in y11, and currently want to do aerospace engineering. I know 3 subjects I want to do, which is maths, further maths, and physics, but I hear sm different views about doing 4 or only 3 a levels. My grades are pretty strong, and in maths im predicted a 9 for gcse, I also do fm gcse haven't got predictions for that yet but aiming for an 8/9. Chem is my strongest science (predicted 9 other sciences 8) and what I plan to do if I do 4 a levels. I need to choose by december so please give advice

thanks sm, btw how do u find a level chem compared to gcse? is it pretty similar or is it an entirely diff subject

thanks sm, btw how do u find a level chem compared to gcse? is it pretty similar or is it an entirely diff subject

Hi, I’m year 13, I do Maths, FM, Physics and stats. In my experience stats is an easy A* that will massively help with your FM should you consider the stats modules. This may not be the same for you, but I thought I’d mention stats as not many people do it (mainly due to not many places offering it)

I feel like stats would acc be so good but the sixth form i wanna go to doesnt offer it😔 thanks tho

you're welcome!
i do ocr a so it might be different for you. until about jan of year 12, the content was mostly gcse with a couple of new topics sprinkled in, but it wasn't much different in terms of topics. it's a lot more mathematical, particularly when you get to year 13. the physical/inoganic paper (paper 1 of 3) is almost entirely mathematical which is great imo because once you learn how to do the questions, you're pretty set. for the rest of year 12 we did organic. a big difference between gcse and a level is how much organic you do at a level - it's about a third/half of the content which significantly more than gcse. i've heard that year 13 organic is horrible but in year 12 i found that organic was by far the easiest part of the course.
it's a lot more interesting because you go into a lot more detail, so you start to understand how stuff works rather than just memorising it. especially with organic synthesis, it's really cool how you learn to actually make stuff so it feels a lot more like you're doing something useful than at gcse.

That’s such a shame, sorry I couldn’t be of more use. Chemistry sounds like the best option for a 4th then

It is much much much harder!!!

ah oh well hopefully its manageable tho