A2 is harder than AS

[alexxxxx]

anyone going into college/6th form next year, score loads of marks on AS and then your A2 won't need to be as high cause trust me it's so much harder but they're worth the same.

[Smits]

yeah it's pretty obvious really.

Even with this warning, most people will still end up needing more points come a2

[alexxxxx]

yeah it's pretty obvious really.

Even with this warning, most people will still end up needing more points come a2

when you're in this position now, looking at the exams in may/june with a million UMS points to get to your university, looks SOLID, trust me. I might start revising for my exams in may/june in feb. so so so so so hard.

i need to pull out AAB and i'm not sure how atm.

[Seatherny]

Well its the second year ... so its kind of obvious?

[Smits]

when you're in this position now, looking at the exams in may/june with a million UMS points to get to your university, looks SOLID, trust me. I might start revising for my exams in may/june in feb. so so so so so hard.

i need to pull out AAB and i'm not sure how atm.

To get onto what i want, i need at least bba

I mean i'm only in my AS year and i have a distinction in a btec i did for a year, but i'm really just wiaitng til march for the results of january exams.

[luce]

is that not the most obvious statement known to anyone who has any knowlage of what AS and A2 stand for LOL! If they weren't you wouldn't normally drop a subject going into A2 and A2 wouldn't come after AS really would it?

i see your point but i said that in year 10 for my GCSEs and in sept this year i spent a hell of a lot of time catching up like my year are finding out now after their poor mock results :eusa_clap

[Alkaz]

I dont think its obvious to anyone. The points system is new whn you read A Level and I never knew untill December that AS Retakes can affect your overall A2 grade. So ye its best to try and get the best grades at AS because you wont have much of a chance after that!

[Hecktix]

when you're in this position now, looking at the exams in may/june with a million UMS points to get to your university, looks SOLID, trust me. I might start revising for my exams in may/june in feb. so so so so so hard.

i need to pull out AAB and i'm not sure how atm.

I'm in this same situation :( Dunno how I'm gonna do it.

[Immenseman]

No, it really isn't that obvious at all. When both years have equal weighting, it's very easy to think that the difficulty will be equal. It's a two year course, why should the latter part be harder? It's not really all that obvious and it was never made clear to me. It's not really at the forefront of your mind when you're revising and doing your AS year too, he's 100% right though. It gets a lot more difficult.

[FlyingJesus]

I dont think its obvious to anyone.

Hmm


yeah it's pretty obvious really.


its kind of obvious?


is that not the most obvious statement known to anyone

Reckon you're a liar Joe boy

[dirrty]

i was told at the end of AS and at the beginning of A2 that the latter is more difficult, so to maintain (or improve on) the grade achieved at AS, we'd have to work hard. this was in all my subjects, so i guess it depends on your college. for example, in sociology, the amount of content we have to learn is much greater than it was in AS. it also become quite evident that A2 was harder when my first essay of the term was like a low C because i was still writing at an AS level lol so we we're given a big ol lecture.

[Black_Apalachi]

I never really thought about it but my whole Psychology course was pretty much taught to us in the second year alone.

[Seatherny]

in my second year, I took AS ICT as an extra AS. If I had continued it to A2, I needed to get a C to get an A (H).

[Blinger1]

What's the difference between a2 and as? :S

[FlyingJesus]

It's the two years that make up an "A level" qualification that most people who go to college do - they essentially won't mean a lot in the bigger outside world but can make a massive difference if you really want to go to a top university. AS is the first year, A2 the second which generally counts more percentage-wise towards the final mark.

[Blinger1]

Ah right, so its the equivalent to our VCE/HSC stuff. The scores you get from these two levels determine if you can go to uni to become a brain surgeon or not.

Well it determines what you can and cant study.

[ifuseekamy]

It is pretty obvious, and much easier nowadays where it's split over the 2 years and you can resit as much as you like, when it used to be loads of exams at the end of the 2 years with no opportunity to resit.

[Seatherny]

It's the two years that make up an "A level" qualification that most people who go to college do - they essentially won't mean a lot in the bigger outside world but can make a massive difference if you really want to go to a top university. AS is the first year, A2 the second which generally counts more percentage-wise towards the final mark.

AS and A2 are both 50% of your A Level.

[FlyingJesus]

Well that isn't true at all. Definitely wasn't when I did mine anyway and I'm not that old

[Seatherny]

Well that isn't true at all. Definitely wasn't when I did mine anyway and I'm not that old

Well its been that for 3 years and that's for sure and I am pretty damn sure it was that 6-7 years ago when my brother did it.

Go on AQA, open up the information on any subject and it says it there too.

I think you are getting yourself confused with the fact that some modules within a subject are worth different percentage.
But in AS, overall points is always 300 per subject and 300 for A2 = 600 max for A Level.

You are only 8 months older than me, so it was 50%-50% when you did yours :)

[Immenseman]

They have been 50% weighting for years.