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A Level Chemistry

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coffeechocolatebooks · 21/08/2025 12:25

My daughter received her GCSE’s today, she is planning on studying A level Geography, politics and needs to choose one more A level. She did double science and got 6’s in Chemistry and a 7 in Maths. She is thinking of A level Chemistry but I keep hearing how difficult it is. She works hard and enjoys Chemistry, she isn’t necessarily planning to go to university, she doesn’t know what to do yet so doesn’t necessarily need Chemistry A Level. I was just wondering what other people’s experience of Chemistry A level was? Thank you

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Mumofteenandtween · 21/08/2025 13:01

Let’s just say that I have 4 grade As at A level and one grade “something else”. Chemistry is the “something else”.

Generally though Chemistry has quite a bit of overlap with both Physics and Biology and there is also a lot of maths in it. Taking Chemistry without any of those subjects is going to make it so much harder.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 21/08/2025 12:57

I think that 6s are getting a bad press. A 6 is an old B!

DS has just got a 6 in Chemistry (Triple Science) and has registered for A level chemistry at college. He did do triple science though, your dd would have ground to cover on the “triple only” content.

The only other thing i’d say is that Chem /Politics/Geog isn’t a particularly coherent set of subjects. I’d say that Geography goes with both, but chemistry and politics not so much.

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