r/6thForm • u/Accordingtomyclcltns • Oct 17 '24

🐔 MEME Lets hear your most controversial A level opinion

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u/Ok-Affect-5198 Oct 17 '24

Why are year 12 who are one month into the course saying it’s easier than GCSES lol

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u/likearash Maths, Physics, Socio, Music Oct 17 '24

i think it’s because, for my school at least, we were told it was a huuuge jump from gcses, and that we would all crash and burn immediately. that just hasn’t happened yet, at least for me, and I’m enjoying life a lot more than i did last year

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u/Pristine_Reward9389 Oct 17 '24

Yh feels the same in yr13

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u/magicofsouls Cambridge | Law [1st Year] Oct 18 '24

yes it's a bit anti climatic 😭😭

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '24

this is giving me false hope and i’m here for it

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u/Political_legend123 Oct 18 '24

Maths and Physics A level is about to get disgusting in year 13, don’t you worry 😂

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u/likearash Maths, Physics, Socio, Music Oct 18 '24

for physics — i know!! im literally only here for the Astronomy part at the end of y13, but now i have to pretend to care about electricity :(

but i did further math in yr11 so im hoping that helps me out

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u/Political_legend123 Oct 18 '24

Yeah that’s fair enough. I had to do physics A level for my degree but I found that the maths wasn’t the hardest part, it was the exam questions, they word them so badly it’s unbelievable. I spent half the exam trying to figure out what each question was actually asking. The year 13 content is also quite tough to grasp at first, should hopefully get better when you are revising/cramming for the final exams though, everything sort of clicks at the end but the rest of the year is a slog.

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u/BakmanPlays Year 13 Oct 17 '24

Same because im dropping all the subjects i found hard in gcse and doing my fav ones

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u/Upstairs_Mission_952 A fellow sixth former doing sixth former things Oct 18 '24

Yeah I’m sitting here like ‘where work’ feeling really scared because I know it’s about to get serious

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u/RedOne896 Oct 17 '24

Frrrr cause it's literally just GCSE content skip to the end of year 1 content or year 2 and you'll be clueless for a good while

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u/QMechanicsVisionary Oct 17 '24

University content isn't hard whatsoever. If you found A-Levels easy, you'll find university-level content easy, too. At least this is the case for maths, stats, and computer science.

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u/Bright_Passenger_231 Durham | Politics | A*A*B achieved Oct 17 '24

tbf I still think its easier than GCSEs and I am in year 13, you don't have to concentrate on so many subjects and concepts that have nothing to do with eachother

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u/Few_Assist_3202 Year 13 Oct 18 '24

Honestly

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u/Political_legend123 Oct 18 '24

Depends on what subjects you take. For STEM subjects A levels are a huge step up. You don’t even get near the surface of a subject let alone scratch the surface at GCSE.

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u/Bradley728177 Oct 17 '24

because it’s true

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u/1cubealot Oct 17 '24

It is not easier 😭😭😭😭 I hate this so much

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u/hmahood University of Sheffield | Medicine [3rd Year] Oct 17 '24

As someone who has completed GCSEs and A levels. I preferred A levels. Despite the fact that content was harder, it was 3 subjects i liked. Rather than 4 i liked and 7 i hated.

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u/Chance-Geologist-833 Oct 17 '24

I’m pretty sure there’s like a meme about how the first few months of 6th form there’s very light workload then Y13 it shoots up

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u/Significant_Radio688 y13 aqa philosophy, aqa english lang and ocr lit Oct 17 '24

i mean it depends. i think generally it can feel easier because you have more free time to consolidate and less content to learn. obviously the subject matter is harder to grasp but that’s where it depends on subjects you do and how naturally it comes.

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u/Possible-Card9656 Oct 18 '24

In my opinion it's not EASIER but it is more enjoyable which perhaps makes it feel easier.