choosing a-levels

[adj137]

i need some help in choosing my a-levels.
i wanna go into medicine or veternairy science, so what a-levels would i need for a pretty good uni.

any help would be apreciated

 

[Payaah]

You live in England? If so that means you are in year 11 right?

I would choose Chemistry, Biology, and other 2 depends on what you like.

 

[adj137]

yeh i do
im definately doing Chemistry and Biology coz there my strongest subjects but i hear alot of talk thatyou need maths for medicine and i really suck at maths.
I might to do english and histroy as my others

 

[PhiLLer]

Officially I think you do need maths for medicine though it doesn't make any sense because you'll probably never use it.

 

[adj137]

ah screw everyone im gonna be a vet

 

[Ebonix]

The best thing to do is find a local vet and ask if you can do some work for them, like a part-timer for something like an hour each night after school. Then you can say you've had work experience which is always a much higher accolade then qualifications. I would also say, use one of your A levels as something to drop back on. When I chose my A levels, I didn't have any clue what the hell I wanted to do with my life (neither did anyone else I knew), so I took ICT, Media & Econmics because I wanted to go into computing but I could go into pretty much any career track with Economics.

 

[adj137]

thnx man, i might try the vet down my road

 

[Vazza]

Originally posted by PhiLLer
Officially I think you do need maths for medicine though it doesn't make any sense because you'll probably never use it.

As a general rule, most univeristies want applicants for medicine to offer a combination of Chemistry and one from Biology, Maths (also regarded as a science) or Physics. As well as this they usually want another rigorous subject, which can be another science or something like History, for example. I studied Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Economics at A-level and didn't have any problems being accepted by universities to study medicine.

The London universities usually have ABB as the A2 grade requirement to study medicine but universities like Manchester have AAB as the requirement.

Basically, I would recommend talking to your careers adviser at school and would also suggest taking a look at university prospectuses, for their entry requirements.

 

[adj137]

that clears up alot for me thnx. i have i slightly clearer idea of where im going

 

[Payaah]

I am also in year 11, I have chosen Further Maths, Physics, Maths, Computing/I.T. I still got to decide what to choose between Computing and IT.

 

[Ebonix]

Originally posted by Payaah
I still got to decide what to choose between Computing and IT.

Depends what you wanna do. Do you want too do programming, coding etc or do you wanna do office publishing and databases

 

[Payaah]

I would want to do programming, but it seems computing is a lot harder than IT.

 

[adj137]

in my school we dont really have those kind of options just bread and butter with the exception of politics and 'life studies'

 

[Ebonix]

Originally posted by Payaah
I would want to do programming, but it seems computing is a lot harder than IT.

If you want to do prgramming you'll have to do Computing then. IT is only about databases and office publishing, beleive me, been there and done it

 

[adj137]

Payaah, in your school is there a system of choosing a-levels coz in my school its like there rationed, you have to get a recommendation from your teacher based on your work, regardless of your gcse grade

 

[Tom]

yeah mate, send a few emails off to universities, most of them are only too happy to reply, get as much info as you can before deciding on them. Trust me.

TROD.

 

[Danza-Geordie]

Hello, i'm in need of help too people. I want to go into Sports Journalism. I don't care on what level to start off with...Newspapers, Radio, T.V., Magazine anything. At the moment the A-levels I have down (not my final choices) are Eng Language, Media and Sociology. What would you say I should chose?

 

[Payaah]

Originally posted by Ebonix
If you want to do prgramming you'll have to do Computing then. IT is only about databases and office publishing, beleive me, been there and done it

Thanks. What you studying at Uni?

 

[Tom]

Medias a right laugh, you'll enjoy it. lol, just make sure you base all your written stuff around sports.

Probably Psychology as a fourth if you want

TROD.

 

[flamehawk]

Originally posted by Danza-Geordie
Hello, i'm in need of help too people. I want to go into Sports Journalism. I don't care on what level to start off with...Newspapers, Radio, T.V., Magazine anything. At the moment the A-levels I have down (not my final choices) are Eng Language, Media and Sociology. What would you say I should chose?

Same, I want to either go into Journalism or Law. I wanna be a photojournalist (National Geographics, Times that sorta thing) or a Lawyer specializing in Constiutional law (Human Rights, Animal Rights). Well I'll probably starve lol, but yea thatz what I wanna get into. I chose, (this is Canadian Ontario Systtem), Accounting, Math (Compulsary), English, Canadian Literature, Psychology, Communication Technology, Early World History, Economics. Do you think I chsoe the right coruses?