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 Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 7:18 am
Jorre I have had major bad experiences with French. But then again, that's in Belgium. Wouldn't Dutch or German be more hilarious? I mean, c'mon, you'll be the only one 'ever' in the history of your school to ask for Dutch education. (For a good reason as Dutch is one mean language.) However, I am serious about German, a lot of scientific stuff from the 18th-19th century is written in German. And face it, you'd be able to tell people you read Kant's Kritik der reinen Vernunft in the original language... which is totally worth it to see their face afterwards. Since you are already into maths, physics seems more logical. I however have no idea of how the English System translates into difficulty, as the Belgian system is radically different (do we say 13+ subjects permanent in our last year? Yes, we do). I found Philosophy, Psychology/Sociology (flow through to Antropology?) and History to be utterly delightful subjects. Yes, I think that's about it. I have to say that some people (i.e me) find the general idea of "what they're on about" a lot easier for Dutch than for French. When I went to Holland I had been learning french for 5 years but only 3 really count as learning anything at all and understood as much, if not more, Dutch than I would have if I was hearing French in a French shop or seeing French roadsigns. French never agreed with me though. And I have heard a fair lot of Swedish if that helps. I found German hilariously un-amusing. It was much easier than French but "ich heisa" (That is "my name is" probably spelt wrong") rhymes with Aisa (in a German accent). Its much better than French though. *mutters* And on the German for science part, my dad says taking German (because the careers advisor said it would be useful for being a chemist) was a huge mistake. He's a professer of chemistry so... Being able to speak english is pretty useful though. He's in korea just now and I am pretty sure he doesn't speak Korean. Physics does help maths. I've done some stuff (vectors) in physics before they were done in maths and the people who had taken physics found that topic much easier. And it helps with trig. Really, you should take the subject you are going to enjoy the most. And natural ability helps too. Just taking a subject because it looks impressive and then hating it and failing it isn't a good idea.
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 7:54 am
Do the physics? >_>
Actually, I cannot really tell you which you should do. What I can tell you is that PoS is right about how certain subjects are preferred by certain universities. It does depend on what you want to do if you carry on to university. If it is one of the mathematical sciences then physics would be your best option, even if you don't really need it for degree level physics (maths is far more important).
Although French would make a good choice. It really does depend on what sort of balance you want to your education at this stage (mine was pretty much standard for a physicist although I would have taken philo given half the chance).
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 9:10 am
Jorre Wouldn't Dutch or German be more hilarious? I mean, c'mon, you'll be the only one 'ever' in the history of your school to ask for Dutch education.
Thanks for all the advice everyone, it really has been a huge help 3nodding I think I'm gonna go for Maths, French, Physics and Sociology (that's if I get the GCSE results I'm hoping for of course)
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Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:59 pm
Ok, now I'm needing some help.
I have a lot of explaining to do but it really isn't too complicated (at least I shall simplify)
Today we had an assembly. And had to fill in a sheet saying which subjects we would like to take if we had any choice of mixture. These are for 6th year (that's A level year)
This year I took maths, chemistry, physics, biology and english (didn't choose that one, it's compulsary) at higher level. I'll put the rules in a list.
Next year I have to take 5 subjects.
These can be a mixture of Int2s, H(Highers) and (AH)Advanced Highers.
A maximum of 3 AH are allowed for the sake of our brain.
If I take either 3 AH or 2 AH + 2H then I am allowed a few study periods a week, the rest of that column will be taken up with buddying 1st years. This would mean I would be allowed to take 4 subjects.
If I get my predicted grades (though that includes passing english, only a C would be necessary) I would have the grades to get into most universities in Scotland and could theoreticly just go to university but that is not advised, a skive year sounds more fun.
If I got some good AHs (ABB would probably be enough for most unis) I could skip 1st year uni although I'm not sure I would want to.
If I want to go to an english university then I would need some AHs.
I ticked AH biology because biology is a brilliant subject. There is question marks next to AH maths, chemistry and physics. I think I may as well go for 2 of these subjects as they don't involve writng many essays and so I will probably find them a lot easier than most other subjects, even at lower levels. The subject I like the least is probably chemistry but I'm not sure if I like the sound of AH physics AND AH maths and biology is looking like my most likely choice for uni. So maybe I should take chemistry as it does link the sciences. But then I have to choose between physics and maths.
I don't know about my 4th subject. H philosophy is an option as is H art. But both involve writing a lot of essays and have essays in exams. My other options would be H geography (which I found very boring at standard grade but that might have been because it was too easy, geography essays I can do) and I could probably crash H modern studies.
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Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 5:08 am
Okay, maths is far more important that physics in the grand scheme of things. You have to relearn most things in physics anyway when you get to degree level anyway. Maths is the more important skill because it makes the shift to a fully mathematical and quantitative physics course easier if you wanted to keep the options open for a mathematical science.
So the advice from a PhD level physicist is to take the maths over the physics if you have a choice of one or the other: maths is far more useful than the physics you learn at that level. If you have to choose between biology, physics, chemisty and mathematics then I would pick biology, chemistry and mathematics if biology was the chosen path. I do recommended that you do not let your physics slide at university because the developing field of biophysics is proving to be quite popular when it comes to funding. Then again, I am pretty biased about my subject. XD
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Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 12:52 pm
A Lost Iguana Okay, maths is far more important that physics in the grand scheme of things. You have to relearn most things in physics anyway when you get to degree level anyway. Maths is the more important skill because it makes the shift to a fully mathematical and quantitative physics course easier if you wanted to keep the options open for a mathematical science. So the advice from a PhD level physicist is to take the maths over the physics if you have a choice of one or the other: maths is far more useful than the physics you learn at that level. If you have to choose between biology, physics, chemisty and mathematics then I would pick biology, chemistry and mathematics if biology was the chosen path. I do recommended that you do not let your physics slide at university because the developing field of biophysics is proving to be quite popular when it comes to funding. Then again, I am pretty biased about my subject. XD Thanks for that, it's useful. Biophysics could be pretty good (I imagine) but it's so hard to find anything out about it. From what I've found (which is very little) you go into it by studying one subject and then having to go back to try and fill in the gaps on the other half. Biomimetics (biology and engineering) also sounds interesting.
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Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 3:12 pm
Well, from what I'm told, if you want to take biology to degree level, then a good understanding of both biology and chemistry is required, or at least highly recommended.
However, chemistry probably isn't essential if you don't want to do the course. Maths and physics is also a good combination, as they support each other well.
As Iguana said, I think maths is pretty essentialy if you're planning on doing any science at university. I would probably advise you to go for maths, biology and chemistry, if you want to do biology at uni. If you don't, that's still a pretty good combination, although physics is also well worth consideration.
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:54 pm
Lady of Spain Well, from what I'm told, if you want to take biology to degree level, then a good understanding of both biology and chemistry is required, or at least highly recommended. However, chemistry probably isn't essential if you don't want to do the course. Maths and physics is also a good combination, as they support each other well. As Iguana said, I think maths is pretty essentialy if you're planning on doing any science at university. I would probably advise you to go for maths, biology and chemistry, if you want to do biology at uni. If you don't, that's still a pretty good combination, although physics is also well worth consideration. Thanks. It's much appreciated (however long it takes me to reply) Ok, another question. At an assembly about next year we were advised about not going to university next year, which is generally a good idea. But one of the main reasons the rector gave was that the Scottish students would be a year younger than the english ones. Theres quite a lot of english people come to university over here so if you skipped 6th year you would end up 2 years younger than almost half your year. I always thought that you lot left school at the same age as us. I'll be 18 when I leave, though there will be more people who are 17. The cut off is Febuary, the first people in my year turned 17 last week (and the last turned 16 too).
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