A Level Choices

[Airbrush24]

If all things academically are equal, and dc has no idea of future career yet, what 3 A Levels are the best combination out of these 4?

Business Studies
Geography
German
Psychology

Advice gratefully received! Thank you

I'd say Geography, German and Psychology - keeps a wide range of degree options (including business studies) open.

I agree with @NanFlanders

I’d say German, Geography and one of the others which are a bit more specialised

Oh and you’d need German and geography a level to do it at uni. You can do BS or Psy at uni without. So keeps options open.

I did BS a level and admittedly it was years ago but at the time it def wasn’t anywhere near as challenging academically as other arts subjects I did. That could be a good thing of course but I regret doing it and should have done geography instead.

Thanks everyone, so far!

Hey @Airbrush24 I agree with others - German and geography will keep open options to take German and geography at uni. You don't need psych for psych at uni (but obvs it may be of interest and help to see if you like it!) and you don't need business (not business studies btw) to do business at uni.

How was their GCSE maths? There's quite a bit of maths in A level psych – not so much that you need to take A level maths, but (say) a 4 at maths GCSE would not be a good start.

MFL is my subject so if you want any further info about German A level (it's a great course! assuming AQA but they are all similar) then let me know. What did they get at GCSE in German?

6 in Maths
8 in German

Great stuff @Airbrush24 that maths result is fine I would say and an 8 in German is a great prep for A level.

Although psychology at university doesn't need psychology A-level, some universities want one or even two sciences (including maths and psychology as sciences). Others don't mind which subjects, but it's something to check out if they might want to go in that direction.

Agree with German, Geo and Psych - allows them to go into both humanities and STEM fields, as many universities class both the latter as sciences in particular courses. High language fluency is also very admirable.
My DC is currently studying French, Geo and Psych (so not too dissimilar) and plans to study a MSci in environmental geoscience!

Thank you, it's just a big dilemma!

That's a good point about psychology needing a science subject at a lot of unis. I just checked Birmingham (not totally at random as I know a student who took psych there) and they prefer a science (lower offer) - and they count psychology.

Whereas same uni for business has no requirement of any specific A level subject - even business.

So if those and only those are the four possible options, then business is the one to drop, as studying psych will make a psych degree possible (I mean studying maths or biology or any science also would make it possible, but those are not on your list).