A level choices

Without knowing your strengths and preferences, all I can say is don't study Media, or Sociology. Media studies is more or less useless, its not even needed for a career in Media. Sociology is looked down upon, and everyone I know who took it at university hated it by the end of the course.


If in doubt, do a science/maths/english.
 
Nitefly said:
Meh hate the phrase 'soft subject', it's so elitist and I hate elitism ><

Geography was my favourite subject at A-level. It was a bit like studying a national geographic magazine. We learnt a bit of science, economics and business, environmental studies, biology and of course, art (colouring in).
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Geography is actually an excellent subject to take at A level because it is not considered a soft subject and a lot of places (including Bristol!) put it in the same group as a science. It's also a humanity, has essay writing skills, and is an all round 'helpful' subject to have when it comes to uni. I also found it dead easy, but that's irrelevant.

A 'perfect' set of A levels imo is Maths, Bio/Chem/Phys, English, History/Geography/Computing (depending on what you want to get into, Computing A level can be surprisingly helpful).

Do 4 if you can do them well, unis like that. They were impressed I did 5 even though I screwed up and got Cs in two of them (A*AACC was my final overall A level results in Geography, Computing, Maths, Physics, Further Maths).
 
Nitefly said:
Meh hate the phrase 'soft subject', it's so elitist and I hate elitism ><

Geography was my favourite subject at A-level. It was a bit like studying a national geographic magazine. We learnt a bit of science, economics and business, environmental studies, biology and of course, art (colouring in).
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I did Geography and other than Tectonics I hated everything about it. Although I somehow got two Ds in the first year and then a C in the smaller exam and a B in the final big exam in the second year without increasing how much work I put into my geography, no idea how :p. Wish I'd put more effort into the first year now though and I may have walked out with a B instead of a C.
 
vaulsey said:
Hey guys i was just coming to query do you think these a level choices are smart i know its personal to me but is it a good combo? will i have good options at uni?

just thought i'd put it out there to maybe put my mind at rest with the choices i have made.
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This will be a very good combination of subjects. I applaud your choices!
 
Moses said:
Well, no. Someone could study economics/history/politics and have a strong set of A Levels, for example.
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I have history and politics a-levels :D (and a maths one)

At as he really should be doing 4 subjects so your combination would be fine if it induced a core as level. All about keeping your options open and not doing sociology, psychology, history and development studies as... (quite possibly the dullest combination).

But anyway even an AS in the cores or a language is a decent help, makes you look better.
 
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Yeh sorry about last thread my a level choice are IT,Media Studies,Biology.
what do think of these good, bad? i know its personal opinion but are these a good combo to go into university with.
 
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