What A levels has everyone chose? Past and present:)
I've picked Maths, Biology, Geography and Chemistry
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What A levels has everyone chose? Past and present:)
I've picked Maths, Biology, Geography and Chemistry
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 :)
How did you find Maths and Chemistry if I may ask? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kardan
History A
Geography A
Re A
dropped biology at As and got a B in that.
Psychology
Sociology
Philosophy
Law
Have to "finalise" the learning programme next Tuesday, can't wait :)
Was also quite shocked to learn that one of my good friends is doing 3 of the same courses as me haha. But she's opted for Government + Politics over Philosophy.
Maths was nice and easy really, but I wish I worked a hell of a lot harder. If you have to retake, I'd suggest not retaking them at the next available exam period.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rixion
The first exam in AS Maths is Core 1, I took it in January and got 73% for a B - retook it in June, and you have to take Core 1 and Core 2, the second exam, straight after each other. Got 48% in Core 1 and 60 something in Core 2. Revising for two exams at the same time is not good.
So I retook Core 1 again the next January, when I had no other exams, and got 100% :) Maths is good, if you get a choice of modules, D2 and S1 are the easiest :) M1 is often considered the hardest of the optional modules :)
Chemistry was my worst A Level by far, at A2 it gets really difficult. Having to remember numerous, numerous reactions, with the reactants, products,conditions required, colours, shapes, diagrams etc.
http://alevelchem.com/aqa_a_level_ch...4/s3404/01.htm
Basically, a good memory is good for A2 :P The pratical part of the A-Level, the ISAs, are good, and a good way to get easy marks :)
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!
Physics is quite heavy in Maths, especially at A2. Many times when Maths came into it, I was the only one in the class who knew what to do instantly, because I was the only one taking Physics/Further Maths - Physics is probably the most fun science to take though :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Futz
As - Media Studies, Business Studies, English Language and ICT.
A2 - Media Studies, English Language and ICT.
Failed business so had to drop it lmao.
My school did maths A-level instead of Advanced Higher (which they offered for everything else) so I did that in my final year alongside my Advanced Highers. It was pretty easy and I scooped an A* but I sometimes wish I'd done Further Maths too. The prospect of studying 12 modules in a single year was a bit too offputting at the time though and I wanted some free periods. :P
An ideal situation would have been to just study the first four core modules and FP1 with FP2 or FP3 for the maths A-level rather than S1 and S2. Still I enjoyed stats in the end.