Maths, Physics, Computing, Chemistry are what I am thinking I will choose. Maybe swap out Chem for F maths though. I am hoping to either do a degree in some form of engineering or maybe do computer science. What do you guys think?
What A-levels should I do?
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You should have stated that in your original post - you broadly stated that ALL Humanities are a waste of an option regardless of what your doing at University.
If this helps I am doing Further Maths, Maths, Physics, Computing and Psychology.
Planing to go into Computer science and then into game designing. If game designing doesn't plan out Computer science opens up a lot of opportunities.
Planing to go into Computer science and then into game designing. If game designing doesn't plan out Computer science opens up a lot of opportunities.
You're right about Cambridge - it's a place where all the Tarquin's of the world unite and spend their time poking fun at poor people. I was routinely spat at for going to an underachieving state school, and my wife to be was publicly ridiculed for growing up on a council estate. I was once thrown out of a formal hall for using the wrong fork.
Oxford is much more low-key.
Good choices but be aware that Computing is bland, there is a programming module to it but the theory is a test of your memory. As well as having out of date questions and mark schemes ( They think that an SSD is not solid state storage which is quite funny), it can get very boring but it's the only place where you are going to learn a programming language which can help you out in the future.
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I got a B in AS German. It's my dirty little secret...
How long ago did you apply? Also how's jon?
How long ago did you apply? Also how's jon?
I'm in the 4th year of an MEng.
I was just making the point that the entry requirements are never 100% rigid and other things are taken into account. Getting a B was a massive disappointment for me (I should have got an A) but I had a pretty good interview and plenty of extra-curricular relevant interests like electronics. I guess the fact that I was from a crap comprehensive might have had an affect too.
Not seen JS for a while, it's Easter vacation at the moment so people tend to come and go a bit.
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I'm in the 4th year of an MEng.
I was just making the point that the entry requirements are never 100% rigid and other things are taken into account. Getting a B was a massive disappointment for me (I should have got an A) but I had a pretty good interview and plenty of extra-curricular relevant interests like electronics. I guess the fact that I was from a crap school might have had an affect too.
Not seen JS for a while, it's Easter vacation at the moment so people tend to come and go a bit.
If anything, that may prove my point further about Cambridge being more flexible about academics. A friend was recently rejected from there for Medicine, despite his interview being better than a lot of successful candidates. The reason given was that the lowest UMS of successful applicants was around 96%, and my friend only had around 92 in each subject. Fortunately he got an offer from elsewhere.
Give JS my regards, I haven't even spoken to him for about 4 years
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First option every time.
Well I've finished my GCSE's and got 8A*'s and 2A's and I've chosen to do Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Biology is utterly boring and I have almost no motivation to do it at all. I have the choice to drop biology and take up further maths which is what I'd prefer to do but at the back of my head I'm thinking I'm narrowing my options by doing this. I was thinking of doing dentistry but is there much point doing a degree that is focussed on a subject that I despise?
My favourite subjects are maths and physics and I'm considering doing an engineering degree and doing further maths would surely benefit this. So I have a potentially life changing decision to make now. Do I keep on biology in the hope it gets better or do I drop it and do further maths?
My favourite subjects are maths and physics and I'm considering doing an engineering degree and doing further maths would surely benefit this. So I have a potentially life changing decision to make now. Do I keep on biology in the hope it gets better or do I drop it and do further maths?
Further maths will help a lot in an engineering degree in the first year, it can also help with university aptitude tests and A2 physics can get heavy on the calculus.
I am personally not doing it, you can still get into very good universities without it. It's a matter of balancing what you can do without making yourself burn out before the exams.
I am personally not doing it, you can still get into very good universities without it. It's a matter of balancing what you can do without making yourself burn out before the exams.
If someone was going to do engineering, why do you think the universities would look at History over further maths? You do realize at the moment universities complain about the lack of maths skills even with engineering students.
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If you enjoy them all equally I'd say option one would open the most doors.
Edit: Missed option 3. That one.
Edit: Missed option 3. That one.
I'm going to go with my gut feeling and do this. Maths has been my favourite subject since I've started school and it's what I enjoy. I'm not doing it because I need it, more so because I actually enjoy it. It will be hard but I'll just have to work harder rather than revising the night before the exam until 1 in the morning.
I'll need to research more into engineering and see what field would suit me best. What are the top fields in engineering?
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I'm doing Maths, Physics, Biology and Chemistry. I thought that Chemistry would be my weakest, but it looks like it will probably be Maths, then maybe Biology. Personally i wouldn't even consider further maths but then i'm not you
I've just been passively looking into this course, as a sort of benchmark (even if they do seem to have changed the entry requirements from ABB to AAB in the time i've looked at it
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http://www.manchester.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/search2012/atoz/course/?code=03333
I wonder if i could do M1 when they do it in Further, instead of doing D1, to get AS then go from there. Hmm...
I've just been passively looking into this course, as a sort of benchmark (even if they do seem to have changed the entry requirements from ABB to AAB in the time i've looked at it
):http://www.manchester.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/search2012/atoz/course/?code=03333
I wonder if i could do M1 when they do it in Further, instead of doing D1, to get AS then go from there. Hmm...
I'm doing maths, f maths, chem and phys. F maths I'd say is my hardest subject but that's mainly due to the pace it's taught at compared to other subjects. It makes maths feel like a piece of cake though. I don't get much homework other than questions, no long essays or anything. 3 weeks in and I'm okay. These are probably the strongest things I could have gone with for engineering which is what I want to do. Maybe computing or DT instead of chemistry perhaps. Chemistry is still very well respected though.