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BillieTheBot
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Britain has a huge choice of university courses. Good if you know what you want to do. Bad if you don't know for sure. How the hell did people here make sense of it all? So many courses in so many universities. How the bloody hell am I meant to make sure that I make the right choice? I've just done something on the UCAS website called The Stamford Test. (Some kind of test that works out what subject areas may be best for study) The results that came out for me were: General Medical, Psychology, Social Studies / Social Science and Politics Based.
I agree these are the best subject areas for me, but when I looked into these, that's when I was daunted. Looking under Psychology on the UCAS site gave me 15 results, including things like "Human Psychology" and "Psychological Science". How the fuck am I supposed to make the right choice when I've got such a stupendously large number of courses to choose from?
Frankly, all this is rather off-putting. But if I don't go to university, that means I'm going to have to re-think yet again, wasting more time. That would make things worse. All I've been thinking about for eight months of this year is killing myself. I don't want to go back to that, I want to get on with my life. I've got 260 points according to the tariff calculator, which I am reliably told means I could apply for a decent range of choices.
In terms of careers, I'm thinking of doing something based in Psychology, but am unsure if this is a possibility as I didn't study Psychology for A-Level. (I damn well am wishing I had done now)
So, how did you choose your course? And for those at uni, or those who have completed their studies, would you say that you made the right choice?
I agree these are the best subject areas for me, but when I looked into these, that's when I was daunted. Looking under Psychology on the UCAS site gave me 15 results, including things like "Human Psychology" and "Psychological Science". How the fuck am I supposed to make the right choice when I've got such a stupendously large number of courses to choose from?
Frankly, all this is rather off-putting. But if I don't go to university, that means I'm going to have to re-think yet again, wasting more time. That would make things worse. All I've been thinking about for eight months of this year is killing myself. I don't want to go back to that, I want to get on with my life. I've got 260 points according to the tariff calculator, which I am reliably told means I could apply for a decent range of choices.
In terms of careers, I'm thinking of doing something based in Psychology, but am unsure if this is a possibility as I didn't study Psychology for A-Level. (I damn well am wishing I had done now)
So, how did you choose your course? And for those at uni, or those who have completed their studies, would you say that you made the right choice?
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p.s I'm sure you don't need to have done psychology A level do it it at uni. In fact please correct me if im wrong but many uni's would rather you hadn't done psychology A level, much like many uni's rather that you don't study A level law.
I knew I wanted to do the law, but I hadn't thought of doing politics too as joint honours. I found it out by seeing it on the UCAS directory and by doing research with university prospectuses.
It is good that you are researching into it, with a perspective as to what you want to do in the future. There are a huge number of courses to choose from at different universities up and down the country. Generally, there is very little difference between those which appear to be very specific courses "human psychology" ; and those with a more broad title "psychology."
Since some courses are offered everywhere, think about where you would like to study? - Honey, it's really important that you want to go to University for the right reasons; and not think of it as All-or-Nothing: "if I don't go to university I can't do anything else."
University is a lot of hard work (granted, except for the 1st year ) You need to have a real commitment to it, otherwise, you might find that the stress of university could make other underlying problems worse.
Thinking about what you want to do; what you are good at; what your strengths and weaknesses are: is never wasted time : generally speaking, it is better to take a little more time and be sure in yourself you've made the right decision, than jump in head first and make the wrong one.
I guess another thing you could think about to help you decide is whether you want to do your degree in a very acedemic subject - like "psychology"? or something more vocational which would lead to a specific career at the end of it - for example "social work"?
Another thing is phone up some of the universities you are interested in and ask them for their prospectuses and course info. - it will help narrow down the choice - don't just rely on the ucas handbook.
Also a a lot of universities encourange you to pick modules for subjects outside of your degree course in your first year - for example I go to Reading and I'm doing psychology and philosophy, however for those people doing straight psychology you can only do 60 credits worth of psychology in your first year, so you have to do another 60 credits worth of modules to make up the 120 credits you need. It sounds complicated but it isn't really, most modules are worth either 10 or 20 credits so it gives you the flexibility to do modules from at least a couple of other subjects.
i dont know what to do in life
human sciences :thumb:
at my uni http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lifesciences-faculty/humansciences/
A BA is a Batchelor of Arts degree and a BSc is a Batchelor of Science degree. Both are worth the same but it indicates which faculty you did the degree in.
i think.
people i know do entirely based essay BScis and relatively simple practicals, well compared to mine but mines the killer one for lab