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Generally speaking, most medical schools will make their standard offer to you. In certain circumstances, such as St. Georges, they will actually take into account if your college is total shit, shown by the average points per candidate score, and have been known to offer as low as BBC on the grounds that the teaching is diabolical and they can't reasonably expect the student to do as well even though they may be very bright.
Every person doing medicine i know got an offer of AAB, and all of them got a B in at least one of their AS's. Imperial made an offer to another of my friends for AAB at A-Level, he was only doing 3.
Oh, and with regards to another subject - my friend who did history and politics got away with it because he spun some bollocks about them being the subjects of the people
I would say do whatever you feel you can cope with, and make sure that if you decide to take anything extra (like further maths or whatever) that it's something you enjoy. You can always start out doing 5 and drop one if it becomes to hard - or carry them all through to AS and have a rethink for the next year (if that's how the system works? I'm not too au fait with the new system).
Good luck whatever you decide to do anyway
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And as a quick run-through for KoolCat, the system operates whereby you can take your AS exams in the first year of your course, split between Jan and June, and then at the end of the second year 'cash them in', i.e. take an AS grade.
You do not have to take them in the first year though, it still is possible to sit all your exams at the end of the second year in the old style, although with maths this would require sitting 6 exams - and for most other subjects, 4 or 5.
Most A-Levels will operate on a 6 unit system, each unit is either coursework, or exam, or both. Exams can be re-sat as many times as you want between the time you start the course and the time you cash in an A-Level, i.e. June.
Hope that makes sense.
heh, i'm a bit all over the place at the moment. My profile says Edinburgh, but I'm currently sitting in st helens, and will very soon be off to france for a year. But yes, originally, I am from wigan!