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5 as levels (or alevels hmm i wonder what they are called) encore
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well i really can't decide im moving from high school to collge and i have chosen to chemistry,biology,textiles and buisiness studies...but i would really also want to do french but the teachers are like your timetable will be full and alos textiles has a lot of courseowork.im getting worried now everyone is like goodluck.can anyone make some suggestions please.i tried private tution but it costs like £30 an hour a big no no.please help this is really worrying me and i cant decide.thank you alll
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When you're at college you'll realise that you take a lot more responsibility for your own education. You're much less likely to have people chasing you up (except maybe your personal tutor) saying that you've taken on too big a workload, you're spreading yourself too thin, etc. It'll be up to you to be adult about it, realise your strengths and weaknesses and do what's best for you.
Oh, and they're called Advanced Level exams:)
what are you thinking of doing afterwards, or do you have no idea?
I'm the same - I basically messed up a year of my education when I could've been doing somthing else, becuse I ended up choosing hard A levels; idn't find out much about them; just chose the ones that interested me.
You have to do a minimum of 3 A Levels, but can do up to 5.
well again im finding it hard to decide what i want to become after.either a dentist or soemthing scince related that intresting (i really love biology..all about genetics and how we evolves as animals etc) dentisry doesnt focus on that much.but it pays well enough and i know all the routes to take so its like a n easy option.however i really enjoy like fashion and textiles.but te prospect of working a part time job in a pub or something to fund my life as freelance desginer makes me think i waisted my brains when i could have been studying to become something you know better.so i'm looking ath the business side of fashion.because i subsrcribe to drapers and there are some jobs were you can earn up to £75k and the minimum i've seen is 20k which is alright.so if i work hard enough i can start from there and at the end be head of something earning 75k hmmmm.sorry for going on a bit.it's nice to let it all out though. a problem shared is a problem halved.
I'm really glad in hindsight that i did that, however at the time the workload was so intense that I was never meeting deadlines or putting in enough work, and falling asleep in class a lot/generally not paying attention.
I think that I probably could have managed if I'd managed my time better, in the second year I realised that I'd just have to sacrifice one night out a weekend just so I wasn't so tired all the time.
I guess what I'm saying is that it's very demanding and if, like me, you're a bit of a party person, you might need to chill out on that a bit and prioritise school
You'd rather concentrate on your studies than going out partying, basically?
You could also consider doing a french evening course - a bit lighter than an A-level and they tend to be oraganised into termly phases so you could just do term one and complete that before deciding to enrol for term two.
My question would be why on earth are you doing textiles? I'm not knocking it as such, but I would rethink that one and do French AS level and do textiles as a hobbie. Look at some uni courses, for any subject you may be interested in, or a places that recruit fashion designers and see what they think about textiles A level. I suspect you'll find that you would be better off doing the academic subjects for A Levels and doing textiles off your own back. That way you can put hours into it when you have them, and then have a few weeks off round your exams.
I know that undermines some of your question but tbh, I think with any job, an A Level to back it up may nto be essential, may not be useful - but it's an introduction to it. Who knows, he might do a year of textiles and decide he depsises the entire industry.
I would make textiles a hobbie not an A level but that's just me.
It if helps, I do Engineering and did it from A levels of Maths, Physics, Chemistry, and AS F Maths and Latin, I did DT as a hobby.
Naturally they can't ask for more A-levels than you're doing but you'll seriously improve your chances of getting into a top university if you have more than 3 a-levels.
At my school, it was only the really intelligent students who were able to take 5. (well, the ones who got A*s & As for GCSE)
Maybe so, but we're jumping the gun a bit aren't we? I think she's talking about AS Levels, in which case (time-table permitting) she should try and give all of them a shot; drop textiles and/or business if it becomes a bit tough and leave deciding how many A2s she wants to do until a bit later!
I wish I'd done more in year 12: I wanted to do History, English Lit, German and French (in the days before AS levels...) but English Lit clashed with German, which no way was I going to drop, but I didn't trundle across to my local college to give the English evening course a go until year 13, when I was up to my elbows in coursework and had a new baby brother to look after. Funnily enough I quit the evening course after a couple of months. Moral of the story: grab chances with both hands while you can