DD has started A-levels. She's currently doing maths, biology, English language & literature and physics.
She's finding physics a bit of a struggle (despite getting A at GCSE) and is thinking of changing to psychology. She doesn't have long to make up her mind.
She is slightly worried that neither Eng lan & lit nor psychology are facilitating subjects for Russell Group unis - though having had a look around, I've discovered that some unis like LSE and Sheffield seem quite happy with those subjects, and only seem to rule out things like media studies or art.
Her second worry is that if she wants to do something like biology or zoology at uni she might need a second science subject, though again, having looked around, a lot of unis seem happy to treat maths and even psychology as science subjects.
Final worry is that she's not sure whether she will like the psychology course, never having studied it before. The course will be AQA.
My thoughts are that it will be much better for her to do something she's interested in and will probably enjoy rather than struggling for the next year doing something that she finds difficult.
Anyone have any advice or thoughts to share?
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Advice on A-levels - switching from physics to psychology
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hackmum · 19/09/2015 16:24
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