Comments on: College / Uni / 6th Form?

By: x.baybee

x.baybee — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:46:31 +0000

i dont know anything about college but i do go to sixth form. i reckon its the best gateway to get to uni.
a good choice of courses would be a science for forensic, crime scene etc. law would be good for poilce, intelligence and criminal intelligence. and english could be helpful. psychology could be good for every single one of your choices. critical thinking could be good if your sixth form does it.
i’d check UCAS out for courses at uni, there you can check out websites etc.
for your courses, im guessing quite high grades or UCAS points, but if you try hard, its always obtainable.
for my sixth form, it was 5 A-C Gcses and C or above in english and maths.
in sixth form you can pick 4 alevels or less and an enrichment. at college im sure you can only do one course and same for uni. but you’d need to do college or sixth form to obtain the grades for uni anyways.

By: Ellz

Ellz — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:00:41 +0000

I go to sixth form college. at mine, you pick 4 or 5 a/s levels and you can drop one if you like the next year. For my college it is B’s in the subjects you are doing if you did at GCSE and if not generally B’s in english and maths. I suggest you choose sciences (providing you are good enough at them and enjoy them) and maths would definitely be useful. Other general subjects such as english would be good to show you can write well. I would suggest you sort out your as levels before you think about universities. There is always the other option at my college which is the IB where you do like about 6 subjects or something. It is a lot of work and you generally have to be quite smart to manage it. It limits your ability to specialise as you have to do a subject in each category, for example foreign language, arts and science, but you should look at it anyway.

By: Kirstyki

Kirstyki — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:01:24 +0000

Firstly, your list of future jobs is far too long. It’s not up to someone on the other side of the country to decide what job you want to do. You have to think realistically what the requirements are and what you are capable of. And also it’s clear that you need to do some research yourself, not just ask on here. No one will know the requirements and courses needed for all the jobs unless they spend a good while on google first!
But unless you are an extremely talented scientist I would tell you to disregard Crime Scene Investigation right now. Since CSI it’s become extremely popular and unless you go to the best uni’s and get a masters or preferably a PhD in Forensic Science then you’ve got little job of getting a job at the end of it, just lots of debt!
And tbh, there’s very few people who said what they wanted to do in year 11 and stuck to it by the end of yr 12/13. You wont know until you’ve done your A levels what you really enjoy. The best idea is to pick subjects that you enjoy but at the same time will get you into most courses at uni. Unless you know for certain that you want to do something science based, in which case it’s always good to take two sceince subjects as most science courses require/prefer it.
In 6th form you generally pick 4 AS levels and possibly drop one in year 13. But some people take an extra one.
and in uni you only take one course (though it could be joint ie psychology with english) Courses in uni generally last 3 years and 4 years if you take the 3rd year out to do subject related work. Medicine is 5 years i think and Pharmacy is 4.
You really have to do your own research though, it isnt as hard as it seems