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Transfering A Level
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I'm currently at college doing A level business studies and Philosophy. The thing is I want to transfer from business studies to Law, and I was just wondering about other peoples experience of changing classes.
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If you want to do a Law degree switch to History.
why does doing law a level make it harder to get onto an LLB course? surely it would be extremely helpful
history is easily best for that, requires you to analyse real life situations and debate them without actual law
They want you to know how to look critically at evidence, and the Law A'Level does not do this. When you join an LLB course they assume you have no knowledge other than general knowledge, so doing the A'Level is not an advantage in this respect, and it does not give you the skills you need.
Several tutors at Durham have told me this.
see, with an A level, you're effectively learning the same kind of stuff, but it's all dumbed down and compressed. so when you come to learn the same thing at degree level, you think you know it all. and you don't.
so in subject like law, they prefer people with transferrable skills. english, history, classics, politics. anything can work.
Mind, these are the same tutors who ran a mock of the new test for Legal degrees, and failed it.
I suppose when you put it that way it does make sense. I just thought it would be a bit of an advantage and look quite good on your application; shows dedication, keeness etc.