A-Level Chemistry for mature student?

MajorMaccas · 27 Sep 2009 at 22:31

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!

ps3ud0 · 27 Sep 2009 at 22:36

Call other sixth form schools/colleges in your area:

http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/Education...Schools/AToZOfSchoolsWith6thFormProvision.htm

ps3ud0 :cool:

MajorMaccas · 27 Sep 2009 at 22:40

That may possibly be the most useful list in the world for me!

though I do feel somewhat stalked that you cross-referenced my location for me :rolleyes:

lol

Thanks buddy

HeadlessChicken · 27 Sep 2009 at 22:50

The UEA (where I study) has a science foundation year, which is basically Chem, Bio, Phys and maths A-levels all in 1 year. From this you can transfer to virtually any Sci school (including Med).

I did the year (didn't do an Sci A-leves back in the day), and it's great. I personally converted to Environmental Sciences, but I know some peeps went on to Med. You need a decent grade though for the year, 70 odd %, which isn't a walk in the park to say the least. The foundation year was 10x harder than my first year of Env,which isn't exactly a pushover itself.

I'd be amazed if other uni's didn't offer this, and it's just a year more

King85 · 27 Sep 2009 at 22:54

Surely to do Medicine you would be required to do Access to Science rather than HE, I had to do Access to Science to study Biology at Bham

MajorMaccas · 27 Sep 2009 at 23:53

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...