A-Level Chemistry for mature student?

MajorMaccas

MajorMaccas

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Where can I take this?? I'm currently on an Access to Higher Education course, leading to access to medicine, next year. After contacting cambridge, the person I needed to speak to wasn't there, but the woman I did speak to said I would need A Level chem to stand a chance of entry, since I would be going up against school leavers with A's in chemistry etc.

So, since the workload on my access course is managable, I feel I can take on A-level chem in 1 year. I did do 1 year of AS chem after GCSE, but didn't take the exam and went to college instead. I found it the easiest of physics, maths + chem I took at AS. So, I want to get this done and finished in 1 year before I go on to access to medicine next year, at a different college miles away :rolleyes:

Can I go back to my old school (1 minute walk away) and do it there, perhaps an evening class or something, or would I have to try some kind of national service like learn direct etc?? Thanks
 
I've seen that table of uni's before. I do not have any A-levels, I have a BTEC ND in ICT lol. I've read a few encouraging answers to this same question, one did a part-time day class, 2 days a week and got it in 1 year at A grade. Others have done evening classes with similar results. Think I will find out tomorrow when I start phoning around.
 
Currently, the course laid out before me is: Access to Higher education this year, then Access to Medicine next year at another college, with a linked placement scheme with UEA, guaranteed place provided I achieve distinction (70% - low target). On COWA's website, the access to medicine is recognised by cambridge, among other universities, so I'm unsure whether I need chemistry a-level in addition to the Access to Medicine course. My thinking is that it won't hurt, and would actually improve my chances, if I can show I can handle a high workload doing an access course + chem A level in 1 year, since medicine is the heaviest workload of any uni course.

To put this course into perspective, today we watched a video in biology about evolution, then had a break, then punctuated a block of text into paragraphs, then lunch, then read a handout which just repeated what we had been told by the video in the morning. And that was my 6 hours at college today...
 
meghatronic said:
I do, however, question why Cambridge. It is a one of the best Medical Schools in the world.
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This, mainly :p

and ps3ud0, I'm only 21 :) This year alone I'll be volunteering at my local hospital, and/or organising some related work experience. As far as standing out, the A-level in a year alongside an access course should cover that methinks. hmmm
 
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ok, still trying to find somewhere that does this. NEC no longer offers Chemistry as a distance learning course anymore, what is actually involved in it? My local school can't accomodate me, however I'm sure they would allow me to sit the exam there. The coursework I know is marked by AQA, possibly by OCR, but not by Edexcel, so if my local school does AQA/OCR (if they mark), then I can send my coursework off to AQA, take the exam at my school for the exam fee, and take a practical somewhere, I assume my school would also let me do that too...

I really want to study it now, please help!
 
Access courses seem to be a grey area, and little known, I'm doing Access to HE this year, then Access to Medicine next year, though I don't know why I couldn't have done access to medicine this year...
 
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