Im looking to study medicine at university – should i take Politics or Psychology at AS level?
I would go with the one you think you’ll enjoy the most and get the best grade at. Both are respected at universities so that shouldn’t be your worry. If you take psychology you have a very science-based range of subjects to follow whereas politics will give you a bit of variety and not show you to be a ‘one-trick pony’ (sorry, not meaning to be rude but you know what I mean)! Psychology, however, is more ‘medicine’ based but don’t forget you’re going to drop one subject at the end of year 12 anyway so it won’t have too much of an impact on your future career. With all that in mind I’d go for politics if I were you! Good luck with your future studies!
Really you want to take AS maths, but it’s not essential. I do Psychology and I’m starting A2 in september, it’s a good, interesting subject. And would be more relevant to medicine than politics.Both are highly respected by universities but if you want to get into medicine it will be more benifical because you will be dealing with people and by knowing a little bit about Psychology it can only help. Whatever you choose to take, you need to be getting A’s and B’s, medicine is really competative and most universities require you to have 360 ucas points to get onto the course. What you need to do as well this summer or even next is get work experience, volunteer in a hospital, it all looks good on your personal statement when applying to a university. You have to show you have a keen interest in it. You need other work experince that you didn’t do at secondary school, I’m having that problem now. if you haven’t done so already go onto the ucas website and apply for a ucas card, you’ll do
