AS Results!! Need HELP please...

pavlovs_dog

another thing to bare in mind is that pupils' subject knowledge is acquired gradually, and although the a level system is designed to be modular, many students do better at resits because of improved subject knowledge as much as improved exam technique.

jollyme

I would always advise studying a subject you enjoy. Even if this is not what looks on paper to be the subject that you are best at. Resit the economics paper - get a tutor . Studying a subject just because you are good at it is not going to be productive - 3 years is a long time.
As I say study what you enjoy even if it might on the face of it appear to be hard work

mountainofdebt

I've just asked Junior and he said he had to put his AS level grades onto the UCAS application form so that answers that question.

Personally I don't think that it was the teacher retiring that casued the problem although I am surprised that the teacher started teaching the lower sixth if she wasn't going to be around for the A2 exams.....I know one Junior's teachers didn't teach her subject this year for that very reason.

When would your daughter plan on resitting her AS economic paper(s) and is there the intention of siting any A2 papers in January? The reason I'm asking is that by resitting could she be distracted from the A2 papers?

jollyme

I'm pretty sure my two didn't enter the AS results on UCAS for papers that they were resitting. They 'declined' the results officially and so at the point of completing the application those results did not exist. It is the predicted grades which are important - will the teachers predict grades that will give the uni confidence that the final A level result will be satisfactory?

Lizling

I did economics at university and I really don't think she should drop maths if she wants to do economics either. I found that where A level maths wasn't required, you had to cover a great deal of the A level syllabus very quickly in the first few months, to catch up. Also, once I graduated, I found that employers were keen to know how much maths had been in the course, so going for an economics degree without much maths might not be the good career move she thinks it is.

Oldernotwiser

Sorry if I've missed it but does she have any ideas yet about her future career?

mountainofdebt

The other thing I was going to ask was what was her reasoning about her A level cholces in the beginning ?

Might provide some answers as to what she should do

WolfSong2000

Personally, I'd ask your daughter about looking into Scottish Uni's...sounds odd, but they have a slightly different system up there which is really helpful if you're a bit undecided about what you want to do. I did my undergraduate degree at Aberdeen, which is a very well respected uni...went in to do philosophy, came out with a degree in history and in the meantime did courses in everything from celtic civilisation to criminal law (and a few others besides!). The system's a lot more flexible, so your daughter could go in to do ecoonomics (or english lit), then take some modules in non-primary subject and she has the first two years to try both out before she has to settle on one.

GeneHunt_2

mountainofdebt wrote: »

When would your daughter plan on resitting her AS economic paper(s) and is there the intention of siting any A2 papers in January? The reason I'm asking is that by resitting could she be distracted from the A2 papers?

Her head of sixth form has adviced her to resit one AS in Jan and one in June. She will be sitting her first A2 Economics in Jan.

She's happy to do the resists and thinks they might even help her with her A2 Econmics exams.

GeneHunt_2

jollyme wrote: »

It is the predicted grades which are important - will the teachers predict grades that will give the uni confidence that the final A level result will be satisfactory?

My daughter thinks her retiring teacher would have predicted a B.

Given my daughter's other A level results and her GCSE results (half A* half A) doesn't predicting her a C in Econmoics say something about her schools teaching in this subject more than my daughter's ability ?

When do the schools do their predictions? Do students have any input? Do they find out in advance?