A Level Choices

[Bluebird23]

Hi

My daughter is currently in Y10 and visting Colleges with the school. They need to apply to college in October and after various taster lessons she's considering the following A Levels:

Maths
Further Maths
Economics
Politics

The Further Maths can be finished in Y12 by sitting the AS Level if she doesn't wish to continue in Y13.

At the moment DD has no idea what career she'd like to pursue

I wondered if anyone had on thoughts or advice to share on this combination? Is it a narrow combination that will close doors or very difficult / content heavy etc.

Many thanks

I think Politics has interested her because she loves History. I put her off History A Level as I thought it would be too much work alongside Maths, FM and one other.

Loving the subject stops it from being quite so much work, especially in essay-writing subjects.

The list of her choices you give in the OP is really balanced actually. DD and several of her friends who went in to do different PPE, politics, economics combinations have similar A-levels. Maths keeps quite a few doors open. Unless she wants to go full STEM, that's a really good approach.

When we hire for analytical roles, a combination of maths plus humanities like that always encourages me.

Don't talk her out of History, though, if she really wants to do it. History would be fine - better than fine - in combination with some of those other subjects.

Thank you to the recent posters.

We've had a chat tonight and I've shared your insights with DD and she's found them really helpful. She's got her heart set on studying maths / FM (if she achieves a grade 9 next year). As suggested she's going to have a look at the syllabus and past papers for History, Geography and Chemistry as they're currently her favourite subjects and the same for Economics & Politics as she really enjoyed the taster classes in these subjects.

This is such a helpful forum. I'm v grateful to everyone for sharing their knowledge, I feel a a little better equipped for the upcoming college open evenings!