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

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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Kardan View Post
    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?

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    dropped biology at As and got a B in that.


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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Rixion View Post
    How did you find Maths and Chemistry if I may ask?
    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 A2 The 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!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Futz View Post
    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

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    As - Media Studies, Business Studies, English Language and ICT.
    A2 - Media Studies, English Language and ICT.

    Failed business so had to drop it lmao.

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    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.
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