A-Level Choices

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My DC wants to do law at university.
They have decided to do History and Law Alevels but need to choose a 3rd from:
psychology
sociology
ethics, philosophy & religion
They are academically very strong.
Any advice?

we've been advised that psychology is more mathematical than sociology. She is good at maths so think she’d be fine with that but it is putting her off. She’s always preferred reading/writing over maths.

Always look at the syllabus of every course. DD loved History GCSE and had an amazing teacher. However, DS is only the year above and he told us that some of his friends weren’t enjoying History at the college she was planning to go to. We looked at the syllabus and it really didn’t grab her. And to make it worse, the coursework they had to do was on the Crusades which really was not interesting to her. So she didn’t do it. They’ve recently changed the course (might have changed boards, I don’t know) presumably because of lower take up and feedback.

We got to hear what the history syllabus is at the open evening and it did grab her. The teachers were really enthusiastic also. So history is locked in.

Good to hear. If DD was choosing A levels now, I suspect history would have been one of her choices.

This is about as mathematical as the A level psychology test gets: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUQ8QDGvbAwhFY-fZkcJ3k4R2NCnZlqB4&si=9G0_gkrTPV47bfol

From my sister's experience (she took the CIE AS level) it was very memorization heavy.

History, psychology and English literature if she’s good at English. If she doesn’t fancy English then philosophy/ethics also goes well for law. Def don’t bother with law a level.