A levels?

anksta · 24 Mar 2008 at 11:57

I'm 21 and got my A levels a few years ago, I've got them in Maths, Physics and Computing. However, I've regretted picking them for a while now and wished I'd not done such a science based selection. I want to do an A level in English I think and was wondering whats the best way to do it. I want to do it as quick as possible, when the A level results came out last time I read about this girl who had done 9 including one in Psychology that she'd done in the space of a month and got a C. Obviously this girl was a bit on the special side having done so well but I'm not stupid and reckon I could do one in a month fi that was all I was doin, which it would be.

Is there a way I can smash through one pretty quickly? I had a look at ICS but it doesnt say how long it will take and its about 300 quid to do as well. Just wondering if anyone has done any A levels at home and how much they cost etc.

decmatt · 24 Mar 2008 at 11:59

£300 sounds about right considering theres about 6exam + coursework marking + study material.

I dont know howd you go by doing it over a month, most places would only accept you if you did it for at least a year.

anksta · 24 Mar 2008 at 12:03

Solac said:
£300 sounds about right considering theres about 6exam + coursework marking + study material.

I dont know howd you go by doing it over a month, most places would only accept you if you did it for at least a year.

at least a year? :eek:

thats a joke. why do they say "in your own time" if theres a limit on how quickly you do do it.

As I said that girl did one in a month so it must be possible. In college it took me 2 years to get 3 (4 including general studies) and I did another AS level in the first year, that was such a bigger workload, plus you only had like 4 hours a week contact time, if you spent 4 hours a day on it you could easily get through the material loads quicker.

decmatt · 24 Mar 2008 at 12:23

anksta said:
at least a year? thats a joke. why do they say "in your own time" if theres a limit on how quickly you do do it.

As I said that girl did one in a month so it must be possible. In college it took me 2 years to get 3 (4 including general studies) and I did another AS level in the first year, that was such a bigger workload, plus you only had like 4 hours a week contact time, if you spent 4 hours a day on it you could easily get through the material loads quicker.

Trouble is most places just do it where you sit on an existing course, so it would be spread over the year, the cost would be immense if they tailered a course for you to learn in a month with contact time, plus the month you do it would have to be december or april as the exams are in January or May/June. Tbh it would be a shedload of work in that month.

daz · 24 Mar 2008 at 12:25

Why do you need to do more A-levels?

anksta · 24 Mar 2008 at 12:32

daz said:
Why do you need to do more A-levels?

I want to move over to somethin along the lines of a journalism/writing aspect from the scientific one I've been rotting in since I did A levels the first time round. I know I could just do a journalism diploma or somethin but I think an English A level would better. Like how when you're applying for medicine they regard Chemistry higher than Biology.

alexakasloth · 24 Mar 2008 at 12:41

I know there's someone on here who is a motoring journalist, can't remember their name though

Hopefullt they'll see this.

My girlfriends father is a journalist, I think after an economics degree he did a course in journalism for a year.

georges · 24 Mar 2008 at 12:59

I would have thought the most time consuming thing would be reading the books, to be able to make good notes on them, then do the coursework drafts and get them marked, then finally marked and submitted.

That's probably what would take the most time, and likely more than a month, unlike subjects such as economics which don't have coursework at as and a2.

anksta · 24 Mar 2008 at 13:25

Moses99p said:
You can do an English literature A level without doing coursework, just six examined modules. Isn't a massive amount of reading either, six books isn't a huge amount...

how can you do that?

Nitefly · 24 Mar 2008 at 14:22

Did you get on your creative writing course in the end?

I'm an elephant. I never forget.

Arjun806 · 24 Mar 2008 at 14:29

Do you want to do English Literature or English Language?

I do language, and to do it in a month seems like a very very hard task/impossible. Same from what I've seen from my friends who are doing literature

neocon · 24 Mar 2008 at 16:07

waste of time

Voltar · 24 Mar 2008 at 17:53

Age 21. Don't bother. Become well read and articulate or do a degree in it or course in creative writing or journalism.

No point doing A levels now anyway, they are just a joke to anyone with half a brain.
"no more oral exams for modern languages as it's too stressfull" for example. LOL. people are becoming such peons in this nanny state.

Uni or Uni-based course is much better sir.

Energize · 24 Mar 2008 at 18:21

Voltar said:
No point doing A levels now anyway, they are just a joke to anyone with half a brain.
"no more oral exams for modern languages as it's too stressfull" for example. LOL. people are becoming such peons in this nanny state.

Modern languages do have oral exams though...

anksta · 24 Mar 2008 at 19:01

Nitefly said:
Did you get on your creative writing course in the end?

I'm an elephant. I never forget.

wow, cheers mate. Na I didn't, the guy said I had to have stuff published or some work on a newspaper or somethin. Bit of a joke really. Appreciate the fact that you remembered though thanks again.