That's a pretty good incentive to stay
.If only my school offered that I wouldn't be spending hundreds on lessons.
I started off by doing 3 A-Levels, ICT, Business Studies and RE which turned out to be Philosophy of Religion and Religious Ethics.I ended up dropping ICT after the first year as the coursework was pretty horrid, two teachers and two set's of coursework at the same time just was just too much for me in the end.I was already doing coursework in my other subjects which left me no time to myself and with football taking up my time I just eventually dropped that after my first year.I found it difficult anyway and a real step up from GCSE with a lot less pratical work.One of my teachers dying midway through the course kinda messed things up.
Business Studies I found pretty interesting, the coursework was a real step up from what I did at GCSE though and that ended up with me doing pretty poor in my first bit but with the exam and other piece of coursework I managed to get a D for my first year, second year I did well in my two pieces of coursework but they were both a lot of work especially when I had to catch up after I took time off when my mum had her accident but I managed to get C's in both pieces.The thing that ended up letting me down was the finance exam, even with a re-take I only managed an E and that meant I got a D overall.It was a fairly good subject I found, you got to go out on a trip for each bit of coursework and although each bit of coursework was around 8-10,000 words long it was pretty much achievable when I put my mind to it.
RE pretty much being split into two subjects of Philosophy and Ethics felt as though it was really two seperate A-Levels most of the time.Philosophy was the more difficult of the two I found and it took a lot of work trying to just get your head around the different theory's for the existence of God etc but it was always an interesting subject despite being pretty challenging.As for Ethics, I found it fairly easy once I knew the structure of how to answer the exam questions and I got high marks both years, it's pretty practical thinking in many of the topics and you can interpret your own opinion into each exam question.In the first year both subjects linked for the coursework and you just got given a list of about 100 questions that you could do the coursework on and I ended up choosing to do a question on comparing and contrasting Malcolm X and Martin Luther King but there is such a broad range of topics it was easy to find something of inteterest.In the second year we did an exam rather than coursework and that was the synoptic question which was a link between ethics and philosophy and that was pretty hard to understand until you actually saw the exam questions on it and then it all became easier to understand.Overall I enjoyed it being pretty much two seperate subjects as my subjects were split into 4 hour slots and to study the same topics for 4 hours can be pretty tedious.
I kinda rambled on a bit there but they were my experiences of the subjects I did.