What A Levels have you chose/done?

I did;

English Literature
Classical Civilisation
Music

and for AS, those 3 plus

Philosophy
Food Technology

I loved them so much, especially class civ, and all of them are coming in really usefully for Uni life :)

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Originally Posted by Futz

I only did the first year of A levels then started my apprenticeship as a design engineer but the subjects I chose and my experiences with them were

Mathematics - Big step up from GCSE, I recommend you only take it if you are willing to put the work in, I know many of my friends who got A's and A*'s at GCSE and struggled to get C's.

Physics - Quite heavy maths but I didn't find it a bad as pure maths, real world

Computing - Very easy if you're interested in it, quite a bit of binary

Chemistry - Pretty hard, you have to learn many different chemical reactions, quite a bit of maths but nothing too bad. You know how in GCSE you could kind of wing answers to questions and hopefully some of its right, at A level, you need to get the wording and answer next to perfect and prove you actually understand what you're saying

Hope I help some of you!

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Originally Posted by Kardan

Started AS French in Year 10, continued it in Year 11, and in the end didn't take the exam :/
Started AS Maths in Year 11, A2 Maths in Year 12, A Overall.
Then Physics, Further Maths and Chemistry in Year 12 and Year 13, with A, B, B.

So A, A, B, B :)

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I'm thinking of doing Physics/Maths/Computing so, if you don't mind me asking, how was Physics? haha!

I did triple and additional and I literally had 4 after-school lessons of triple because my school screwed up the timetables and I have to teach myself basically and got a D in it (5 marks off a C). Additional however I got an A*, so that made me kinda happy to take it.

What topics did you learn about and were they interesting? Or were they really complicated and confusing? :D

Also (Futz), how was computing? Was the exam difficult?

Thanks!

I'm taking

Maths
further maths
economics
pre-u history

:D

I'm going to be doing,
Creative media
Acting
and Buisness Studies

i'm taking;

photography
film studies
graphic design
english literature

can't wait to starttttttttt.

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Originally Posted by Ardemax

I'm thinking of doing Physics/Maths/Computing so, if you don't mind me asking, how was Physics? haha!

I did triple and additional and I literally had 4 after-school lessons of triple because my school screwed up the timetables and I have to teach myself basically and got a D in it (5 marks off a C). Additional however I got an A*, so that made me kinda happy to take it.

What topics did you learn about and were they interesting? Or were they really complicated and confusing? :D

Also (Futz), how was computing? Was the exam difficult?

Thanks!

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Physics was the most fun of my A-Levels, there's a lot of pratical work which in Physics is actually fun, although the pratical part of the A-Level are quite difficult because you gain marks on how reliable your answers are, and as you might know, getting scientific answers in a secondary school lab with ancient equipment can be quite difficult :P

I did AQA Physics, so we did Particles, Quantum Phenomena and Electricity as the first AS module and Mechanics, Materials and Waves as the second AS module, with the third AS module being the practical ISA.

At A2 I did Fields and Further Mechanics which is very mathematical, so suited me perfectly and then for the first part of the second module it is Nuclear and Thermal Physics, which is essentially a repeat of what you did in GCSE Physics, and what you will do in A-Level Chemistry with thermal equations. The second part of your second A2 module has a variety of options:

Astrophysics, Medical physics, Applied physics and Turning points in physics.

I did Astrophysics since its very mathematical, and so did the rest of the class. Medical physics looked very difficult, and I'd only reccomend it if you're interested in going into that field at a later today. Didn't take a look at the other two.

And then for the third module, its your practical ISA again :)

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Originally Posted by Kardan

Physics was the most fun of my A-Levels, there's a lot of pratical work which in Physics is actually fun, although the pratical part of the A-Level are quite difficult because you gain marks on how reliable your answers are, and as you might know, getting scientific answers in a secondary school lab with ancient equipment can be quite difficult :P

I did AQA Physics, so we did Particles, Quantum Phenomena and Electricity as the first AS module and Mechanics, Materials and Waves as the second AS module, with the third AS module being the practical ISA.

At A2 I did Fields and Further Mechanics which is very mathematical, so suited me perfectly and then for the first part of the second module it is Nuclear and Thermal Physics, which is essentially a repeat of what you did in GCSE Physics, and what you will do in A-Level Chemistry with thermal equations. The second part of your second A2 module has a variety of options:

Astrophysics, Medical physics, Applied physics and Turning points in physics.

I did Astrophysics since its very mathematical, and so did the rest of the class. Medical physics looked very difficult, and I'd only reccomend it if you're interested in going into that field at a later today. Didn't take a look at the other two.

And then for the third module, its your practical ISA again :)

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Thanks for that answer +REP haha!

What were the practical ISAs like? :)

I did:
sociology
ict
art
english language

im dropping sociology and ict next year and picking up psychology

A2 psychology in my third year at sixth form (yay) and probably fast track health and social care or something else i dno

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Originally Posted by Rixion

What A levels has everyone chose? Past and present
I've picked Maths, Biology, Geography and Chemistry

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I've picked them too. I'm thinking of going into the medical side of things in the future. I start in 10 days, the summer has gone quick D:

I did Economics, Maths, Biology and Music. I'm at university now.