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"6th form"

Are any of you in the 6th form and if so do you take any of the following subjects:

English Language
Media
Computing
History
English Literature

If you take any of those subjects could you please let me know if they are good/bad please as my school is pressuring us to choose already.

Cheers

-kyz-

We got pretty good teaching. we got this new guy who has spent his whole life working in TV. His last BIG thing was a little something called the World cup. He's worked on Top Of The Pops, Sky news and loads more stuff that I forget. He's taking us up to SkyTv in about 2 weeks time and he's trying to get us some work experience there.

My ND is worth three A levels I believe. Too bad I'm already failing it (everyone is, every single mother funner failed the last project, because the teaching is CRAP)

Ah well, I have two A levels anyway, I'm not doing this course for the qualifications, I'm doing it for the practical knowledge. I already have a good understanding of how to operate a camera, how to edit and how to record sound. I could probably leave right now if I wanted, but there are some fun projects coming up which I want to do

By the way, do media (a good media course anyway) and you will never look at a film or TV programme the same again. Once you know how it's done it kinda takes away the fantasy. But if you want a career in it then it's so great to do.

Media at 6th form sucks.

Go to college and do a BND course in it (it's worth 3 A-Levels, while the one at most 6th forms is just AS level which is only half an A-Level)

Insane Bartender wrote:
> The best A-Levels to do are:
>
> Pure Mathematics - A-Level
> Applied Mathematics - A-Level
> Economics - A-Level
>
> Choose these and ride the breeze of simplicity.

For you maybe.

*whimpers at mere thought of such terror*

Give me literature and videos anyday!

We had to choose our sixth form subjects a while back, I decided to go for English Lit., History, Economics and Politics. Does anyone know if they're any good?

I was at my high school's 6th form centre. No media for me. That's why I'm doing an ND in media production now, instead of doing a uni course. Ah, if only I'd gone to college two years ago, instead of wasting my time at 6th form

The best A-Levels to do are:

Pure Mathematics - A-Level
Applied Mathematics - A-Level
Economics - A-Level

Choose these and ride the breeze of simplicity.

Kyz22 wrote:
> I would idealy like ot be a journalist, English language and media are
> a MUST if I want to proceed in the course. I excell naturally at
> history and enjoy it so it should be an easy and fun extra A at A
> level.

If you're applying for journalism they don't look at media and English Language in a more favourable light, as English lIterature is seen as a more challenging A-level. And I wouldn't jump the gun on history, or do four full A-levels; it's a lot of work. Particularly as most of the history boards require you to be able to write humungous essays in really short periods of time. Also, one module that lots of schools seem keen on is a statistical approach to analysing WWII. And that is a lot of stuff to learn.

I moved up to year 12(lower sixth) in september. I do History, IT, Sociology and Eng Lit. History is ok, but getting a bit tedious now. English Lit, Sociology and IT are all ok, but they ain't all that exciting right now.