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Choosing AS Levels
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I have already searched for this, but didn't find what I wanted. I'm choosing what to do for AS/A2 soon, and I was wondering if anyone could give me some info.
I'm thinking about possibly
What are these courses like? What do you actually study? And as I don't have a GCSE in ICT, (although apparently I don't need one for the course) would it be harder?
Thanx
I'm thinking about possibly
- Psychology
- Biology
- Geography
- ICT
What are these courses like? What do you actually study? And as I don't have a GCSE in ICT, (although apparently I don't need one for the course) would it be harder?
Thanx
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I'm also doing A2 biology. I think the biggest mistake people make is that they assume that the course is quite easy. Fair enough, it's not impossible, but there is quite a volume of work to remember and it's not just a case of learning the work, there is a lot of 'application of knowledge' stuff in the exam (AQA in my case)
I've sat in on a couple of AS Psychology lessons as I want to do that at uni, and it seems an interesting subject. There is alot of focus on how psychology can be applied to contemporary issues.
But...saying that...don't panic about choosing the "right courses"...For personal reasons I ended up choosing my A-levels (way back then!) by picking at random from the courses that still had spaces on them. I had the best two years of my life and got in to my first choice Uni! You'll do fine whichever ones you choose...just pick ones you enjoy/ are interested in.
Good Luck;)
Geography is OK.Ur basically just doing things on Coasts and Rivers,and Rural and Urbanisation in AS. I'm now doing stuff on Population and Globalisation in A2. I hope this was a bit helpful.:wave:
I'm doing
Law (really good)
English Lit & Lang
Comunication studies (excellent)
Theatre studies
I don't hink it should be a problem that you didn't do ICT at GCSE, my friend did it as a short course at GCSE and took it at college and she really like it.
Dunno, where in West Midlands you are, but, there are a lot of excellent colleges in our area, I'm at King Edward VI in Stourbridge and its great, I'm really loving it. College is so much better than school, oh and don't worry about GCSEs they're really not that bad!
I'm in Wolverhampton...I went to the open evening for King Edwards, it looked quite good, but I'm lazy, don't like the idea of a long journey in the morning heh...plus I'm shy, the idea of making new friends...well, it just scares me!
Thing is though, I really hate my school, not looking forward to another two years there, but it looks like I'm gonna be staying there
As for making new friends, honestly, don't worry about it, everyone here is really lovely, and the teachers are great.
Good luck whatever you decide!
x x x
As for making new friends, honestly, don't worry about it, everyone here is really lovely, and the teachers are great.
Good luck whatever you decide!
x x x
very cool experiments.....mean but cool.
Hehe. Yeah we have, good thing about experiments like that means I will actually remember them for the exam.
Really wish i'd taken up Psychology last year so I could of continued with it to A2 this year. I find it really interesting & apparantly A2 is even more interesting. *sigh* Trust me to pick stupid subjects I hated last year.
I wouldn't have thought that ICT would be a problem if you didn't have a GCSE in it.