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

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?![]()
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.
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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.
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 A2The pratical part of the A-Level, the ISAs, are good, and a good way to get easy marks
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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 thoughI 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!![]()
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.
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.
Last edited by LoveToStack; 24-08-2012 at 05:58 PM.
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