I’m hoping someone can give me some advice on A level subject choices for a 16 year old who loves maths and wants to keep his options open for applying to study maths at Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial etc further down the line?
He is highly able in all his subjects but especially loves maths (and eg. gets through to the UKMT olympiads each year - state school, no particular preparation). He wants to take Maths and Further Maths A levels, along with Physics. The entry requirements advice online seems a little vague on whether it’s advantageous to combine these with another science (he’s not hugely enthusiastic to do chemistry although predicted a 9 in it at gcse. He would probably love computer science, but would that ‘count’?). If it didn’t matter at all, he’d rather pick an unrelated subject for the sheer joy of it (eg music, which he also loves and is talented at and predicted a 9 in for gcse).
We have googled and asked a few people, and have had conflicting advice. Does anyone have any direct experience of this dilemma?
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A level choices for Maths at Oxbridge, Imperial etc
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CouchSprout · 04/12/2017 14:28
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