A level psychology

[fleabitten]

3 words: i hate it.

I have a bit of a dilemma. I am doing 3 a levels and apparently the Universities look 3 a levels - now i dont really have any aspirations to go to Uni. Im only really doing a levels because its something to do, i like school in general, get to socialise, you get something useful out of it and basically its just a few more qualifications, not because of any particular career. I dont even have the foggiest what i want to do.

I picked health and social care (this is dead on, im not really interested in that sort of job but i picked it and its good, i like it all right) and history as my other two. Psychology i was told it was a sort of science and i got good grades in science so i thought i would pick it as there wasnt any other subject i particularly was interested in doing.

Other possible subjects i could do would be; chemistry (too mathsy and i struggled with chemistry at GCSE), eng lit (nope), french (nope!), geography (apparently you can do it even if you didnt do it at gcse), IT (apparently its really bad, lots of people changing out of it, but never liked it anyway), maths (noooo!), music (boring), p.e. (not sporty or interested in it), physics (maths again), R.e (slight possibility but would prefer not), travel and tourism (interesting but far too many presentations!!)

So basically that just leaves R.E or drop it and do 2 subjects. Or just struggle on.

Should i do 3 or 2...that is the question!? Would doing two be a bad thing for the future - i guess i could always do more a levels at a later stage and i have heard that some Uni's only take 2 a levels.

I hate making decisons!!!

[FirenLady]

what about Biology? Would go well with health and social. I picked two subjects I didn't do at GCSE for a change. Tough making decissions when your not sure what path you want to go down. Is there anything that appeals career wise? You could always do general studies to top it up perhaps? If you decided to only do two.

[dannyboy]

Psychology starts a bit slow but it is quite interesting when you get into it. Its good to know what people are thinking and is a great skill for life. When do you have to decide flea? Could you possibly try a few more classes and see if it gets any better?

[duckles]

Our system is very different Flea so hard to know what to say.
While you may have no interest in college per se, you could well want to something that will need further studies so I think it would be worth talking to your careers person (I presume you have one at school) to see what qualifications/A levels you may need.
If you can manage the level of study needed for 3 subjects, it seems like sense to keep your options open and keep doing the 3 subjects. As DB says, you could try and few more classes in psychology- you might enjoy it more with time. Again it would be worth discussing you subject options with the careers person- the one we had at school was really helpful

[Blonde Donkey]

I dropped psychology hunni cos i reaised it wasn't for me. I've taken Health and social care instead which is much better and more suited to what i want to do (nursing)
English lit is quite good if you like reading and writing. Language might be better.

[fleabitten]

FL - i wanted to do biology but i couldnt because its being taught at the same time as history.

I suppose i need to decide very soon as im gonna have to catch up on a lot of work if i change subjects - it seems like a lot of hassle to do that though so may just end up struggling on with it.

There is a lot more options for subjects at the other school (grammar) that i applied to but id feel like even more of a retard there - they do games and you can even do AS photography which would be really interesting.

I dont have a clue what sort of job i want. Whats general studies FL?

[Blonde Donkey]

General studies you do once a week for an hour
dunno what it is though
photography would be ace to do see if you can stick it out a year then swap

[fleabitten]

swap schools??? ;D

i dont think my new school does general studies. havent heard of it anyway.

[FirenLady]

hee hee General studies is equiv. to half an A-level I think. Counts towards ucas points although only some Unis will count it. (this was when I was at 6th form anyway) you did some maths, expressions some opinions that sort of thing. I got an A ;D despite having been kicked out one of the exam cos my phone went off.

If you think the other school can offer you more I'd def. swap. You only get to do it once. I had friends who did A-level photography and they loved it. Its really pants you can't do history and biology.

[abi]

ah me too! i did bio chem geog and psyc for AS, and now school wont let me drop any this year!

biology's good, but geography is really really easy, me and a few mates got full marks in some of the AS exams! x

[rainbow]

i did geography at a level and really enjoyed it. it was the one i did enjoy out of environmental science ad business studies!