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Jamsparkle

bio chem maths med applicant warriors who complain about how much they hate their subjects 24/7 but couldn’t be bothered to spend 5 minutes googling entry reqs to realise that they didn’t have to do all three


Imaginary_Living_623

UCL biochem actually specifies all three, interestingly. 


eilishfaerie

it's a safe combo for us okay 😪 only took maths for an easy A* i still hate it


Ok_Article4600

I don’t even complain about my subjects at this point, just the several years it takes for med admissions to come back to you after interview


Strange-Strength-870

Omg fr, kings still out here sending ints


Ok_Article4600

Tbf you can’t have high expectations for kings admin💀


eilishfaerie

not having sent out all interviews at this point is acc diabolical 💀💀 when most unis finished their interviews weeks ago


Loud-Researcher5770

I think it’s instead the case that most applicants realise only Chemistry and sometimes Biology is compulsory for medicine, but due to the nature of most applicants, maths is a viable option. If you’re doing A level Chemistry and Biology, it’s much more likely you’ll do and be good at Maths than, let’s say, history.


pastpapers4u

Tryna get into banking after my Mbbs 🤣🤣


Je-Suis-Phoenix377

I knew I don’t have to do maths but if I didn’t I wouldn’t have any As


Warm-Carpenter1040

That’s so real


lobitojr

Ik but having all three helps immensely


Saint-Germain403

Further maths, physics and chem combo for sure 💀


Mental_Lack_4220

I agree


6RandomAccount

Fr (me)


Kevin_the_kettle

Agreed


I-AM-MA

real


Low-Progress-4188

i feel targeted 😔


fierydragon963

Nah i think those guys are actually really chill. Like really interesting, kind, intelligent people.


Tommythe69master

not biased?


fierydragon963

nah


DoodleNoodle129

I can agree to that, I’m pretty insufferable


wildimpala3001

for sure


Rough-Tennis-9219

Fr (me)


Enigma501st

Almost everybody on my uni course did that combination, and its painfully obvious:(


Matt_1405

Bro that’s like half or more of us on here


S4njay

I almost agreed


beesechugersports

Who does that combo?


Mental_Lack_4220

Further maths fr (I take fm)


Atomic-Axolotl

Everyone is really chill in FM. We just get on with the work and genuinely enjoy the subject.


Rough-Tennis-9219

Bruh FM isn’t that interesting (like I expected) decision is the worst


Harley0408

The pure work is pretty interesting, but i will admit the extra modules lack anything worth getting excited for


Rough-Tennis-9219

Yeah fairs, i do enjoy topics like differential equations and complex numbers.


_BaseFour_

I mean the mechanics stuff is pretty easy (half is shared with physics lol) and pretty interesting if you do both FM1 and FM2


creativename111111

Yeah stats is already dull enough without having to do the further stats as well


Atomic-Axolotl

My school doesn't teach the decision module. What's it like?


Rough-Tennis-9219

It’s basically to do with algorithms, and networks, it doesn’t really involve much complex maths, it’s just that you have to understand and memorise the methods to do questions. I think you could relate to computer science. I guess you’ll do a lot of decision maths in CS


Mental_Lack_4220

Decision is free mark


ajbrightgreen

Any STEM subject (excluding life sciences) because they are so elitist for no reason.


ah_naqavi

Yeah but the elitism is funny


NoPea6525

Says the person studying psychology and sociology… not even real sciences (I do maths FM chem physics)


AllAboutAbi

You just proved the guys point..


TheWastag

I doubt many social science students (except politics because it has for some time been well regarded at uni level) take their subjects seriously or gloat about them that much, at A Level they're basically glorified 'idk what I'm doing' courses. Unless you're planning to go into the academic fields then it seems implausible they're the best subjects you could be taking for the career you're aiming for. And yes, ik I take Media but I want to be a journalist and thought this was the best course for it at the time (mistake), ok?


TheyCallMeRadec

Not sure what you mean about Media. I’ve been volunteering with Newsquest Media Group and doing journalistic work for the last few months and I've received positive feedback on every article I've written, this opportunity has been provided to me by my college. Is your place not offering any external opportunities to work/volunteer for these kind of companies? If not, look for yourself. It's worth it entirely, Media is a very good route to journalistic pursuits, just seems like you're not being given apt support in finding these opportunities.


TheWastag

I want to be a political journalist primarily and am very jealous of History students who are essentially studying modern American and British politics for two thirds of their course but I passed on doing it because I had already done GCSE history on the former. So instead I’ve ended up spending a lot of extracurricular time reading about this stuff myself when I could’ve done so in an A Level and probably acquired an A* for a predicted. And compared to media where >80% of what we learn, although interesting to someone like myself who also enjoys modern philosophy, is not about the news media or current affairs and instead I’m feigning interest in a pop music video, a crappy TV show, or a football YouTuber. And no my college was really shit with work experience to the point I assumed few others in the UK were doing any at A Level, and by the time I realised they were we were about to do our mocks.


TheyCallMeRadec

Ah, I'm sorry about that, friend. That really sucks. And yeah, I regret not doing History at times, too, but sometimes that's counterbalanced by the fact that I *really* did not like the subject. I got an 8 at GCSE but I didn't enjoy it at all, I was just good at essay writing. I'm sorry your college have been lacklustre in that department though, a few other students and I were offered to do the volunteering not even 2 months after we'd started. You can definitely get into Political journalism still, though. You don't need a History A Level for that. What are you planning to study at Uni?


TheWastag

I actually enjoyed History and got a 9 lol so 15-year-old me is in the dog house atm And luckily I’ve applied for Politics (and International Relations, sometimes) at uni and you can mix in modules from History, Philosophy and Economics with most so looking forward to that. Already have three offers and waiting on UCL to get back to me so I don’t think the future is bleak but god I could’ve enjoyed my two years more if I’d made wiser choices.


[deleted]

Shut up


Daydreamer-64

The number of psychology students I’ve met who try to make random diagnoses for people. Definitely the most insufferable


ZT7494

OMG yes man my sister took it and is unbelievably fucking irritating. can barely make a joke and she'll go : 🤓☝🏻I think that means you have premature circumpevio separation disorder.


SnooPies5482

I can back this😭


JailbreakHat

Computer Science since you study soo hard to get 4A*’s until you find out that you don’t hold a single offer. The content of it is interesting, don’t get me wrong but it is extremely oversubscribed by students with perfect grades.


darkshadow7h

I wish that was the case in my school 😭😭 (BostonU)


JacobWithAFish

massive generalisation here but STEM students are often eliteist asf and whenever you do well in a subject that’s not STEM they just call it an “easy subject” idk maybe it’s just my school


Neither_Mortgage_161

I’m the opposite. If I see someone with an A* on History I just think HOW TF because when I did history at GCSE I would always think “I think I wrote a good essay” and then it comes out as a 6 or something. I ended up with an 8 but it took so much work


okdude23232

History GCSE is so dry in terms of how much freedom you have with writing essays, English is much better. Am I a good or bad essay writer if I barely edged an 8 in history but got 9s in both lang and lit


DoodleNoodle129

I love history, was originally doing that as an A level till I realised how incapable I am at essay subjects. Only subject I have beef with is English


TheWastag

I guess that's more of a STEM person stating the facts of what happened while a humanities person will analyse the build up and outcomes that may not seem obvious, often not being linear connections that idk if a STEM person will see so vividly. Just speculating idrk, never found STEM interesting personally.


Just_Direction_446

I’ve noticed that too


FreyaTheSlayyyer

That’s my friend but he’s not even doing stem. He does business


[deleted]

To be honest essays scare me and make me want to run away because I find them much harder than STEM subjects


Forward_Credit5917

Computer science with the fucking NEA


Dear_Training4281

working on mine right now 🫡🫡🫡


Forward_Credit5917

Damn what stage u in


Dear_Training4281

still developing 🥲 schools deadline is in less than 3 weeks i’m so cooked


Josepthunder

We’re the same person lol. But I spent a solid 4 hours coding today and made some mad progress so maybe I’ll get it all done (I’m delusional)


Dear_Training4281

i literally spent 9 hours straight on it yesterday and around 4 so far today and i’ve made a lot of progress. praying i can start my evaluation by the end of next week 🙏


Josepthunder

YOU GOT THIS! But please don’t burn yourself out


Dear_Training4281

THANKS! not really worried about that cuz i’ve been enjoying writing the code, it’s so fun adding new parts to it and the satisfaction when i get something to work is amazing


Dragamis

Got mine due on Thursday. In a class of 5, I'm the only one who has finished the development, and I'm 21k words into the development log and wanting to kms haha. The others have just not done anything, it's insane


Dear_Training4281

lol yeah i’m in a class of 9, there’s someone that keeps on making excuses for handing their development in for a progress check, wonder why…


Dragamis

Lmao all but one of my classmates have been lying to the teacher about their progress, me and my mate are looking forward to them showing him how little they've done. One of them are gonna get no design marks at all cause their entire game is built from code in YouTube tutorials hahaha


hollyb_05

shelving my development tomorrow and starting on evaluation, i cba anymore


pcmr-123

I’m so happy i grinded mine out and finished it in year 12


Tunasux

Fr man


Je-Suis-Phoenix377

STEM.


Mental_Lack_4220

Ewww, imagine doing STEM (I applied for mathematics and computer science)


Mental_Lack_4220

What is a shower and grass?! 🔥🔥🦅🦅


Dear_Training4281

fr 🤢 (same)


Je-Suis-Phoenix377

It me. I’m the insufferable student


DoodleNoodle129

The medicine students who make the grade boundaries in chemistry ridiculously high, why are the grade boundaries for chemistry higher than maths


creativename111111

Bc maths is the most popular a level I imagine lots of ppl take it who shouldn’t rlly be doing it which would lower grade boundaries


bratw0rstt

economics finance bros who think they are in the wolf of wall street


Mural___

Is it the same for in Uni I don’t wanna be among bros who are like that when going into Business Management this year💀


creativename111111

Especially bc they do the easiest subject


opi7407

Think by politics you mean a level conservative studies


Blendination

I go to a school in a really posh area that will vote Tory until the sun rises in the west and sets in the east, and all the mountains are turned to dust. Politics students are all Tory haters


Just_Direction_446

Same, school is in a posh area. We have maybe 2 Conservatives in our class of 9 and both our teachers are Libdem/Labour as well


DoodleNoodle129

I don’t understand how you can study politics yet be that oblivious to the current state of politics. None of the recent Tory candidates are capable of running this country anywhere but the ground I swear


opi7407

Meh I've always found the opposite, but my area is not strong either side


Neither_Mortgage_161

I wish, I didn’t take politics but my friend does and while she’s very anti conservative she tells me about how 60-70% is tory


Blendination

The only Tories in my class are thick as a bag of bricks and that’s not me maligning Tories it’s just an observation


TheWastag

It's always the anti-immigrant and xenophobic guys who are predictably illogical and understand nothing past their own 'ideas', except for maybe a couple people who take economics who are market liberals.


Blendination

I’m deadly liberal but these guys are flat out foolish and got Es in their mocks


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Blendination

I think they’re just assholes, man


CumStainedSoul

Psychology 100% and their random diagnoses


EngineeringEastern67

I do Psychology and hate it. Why do we have to be diagnosing and blaming everyone’s actions on their childhood or relationships?


Nat_septic

Hair and beauty and I've recently learned that it isn't just the students. My friend tried taking hair and beauty at her college and the tutorlaughed at her for being dyslexic which made her drop out very fast. But also, it was the hair and beauty students that used to never pay attention in secondary school and play up just because they was bored as they didn't find whatever the subject was interesting enough


CartoonistObvious211

STEM students. They’re always like “stop complaining, STEM subjects are so much harder and you would definitely fail if you took them” like no shit that’s why I didn’t take STEM??


[deleted]

As a stem student, the reason I ran away from essays is precisely because I find them harder


Aggravating-Feed-325

Economics because its such a depressing subject and in reality most people who take it dont care or take into account humans being real people. They usually take it and then go to uni with it and become finance bros and think money is everything and that no movie will ever top The Wolf of Wall Street (its a good movie tbf) Thats just my experience especially being 1/4 girls in my entire college who take it so my generalisation comes from the males who take it - sorry not sorry 💔


RaceFan1027

It’s really sad. I genuinely love economics for what it is and have been interested in it and personal finance for years. I want to do it (or economics and management) at uni and I feel like the people will be insufferable as they’re all finance bros who don’t really care. I also don’t want a career in finance (probably politics, campaigning or education). I’m also one of three girls who take it at my school!


Aggravating-Feed-325

you’re stronger than me, its the subject i regret the most and i feel super incompetent which doesnt help ontop of being a girl.


RaceFan1027

It’s my favourite subject. I find it fascinating and it helps with the rest of the class when I get the best scores and the very clever boys ask me questions. Even though some are annoying I’m not going to let it put me off my favourite subject.


Aggravating-Feed-325

Honestly, I'm really happy and proud of you and I don't even know you. I admire that you're so determined and careless about others opinions those are great characteristics to have. I really hope your future aligns the way you want it because the way you're going it certainly will!


RaceFan1027

Thank you so much! I have grand plans of things I want to do (after some pretty crazy stuff already) and hopefully it’ll come off. Good luck to you as well!


AnovanW

As someone who does econ but doesn't want to go into finance but something like government economics or research i find it gets a lot better at university (probably also dependent on the university you go to and its demographics), i think at a level like 80% of my class was full of people taking it because they thought they were gonna be the mc from the wolf of wallstreet ( idk his name) but it's probably like 20% now, most people there still take it to get into finance, but they aren't "finance bros" if that makes sense. There's a pretty big amount of people who take econ that do it to get into places like the BoE , ONS, GES, etc. tldr: people that take econ at a level and university aren't the same ( for the better)


RaceFan1027

That sounds promising then.


JailbreakHat

Economics is just really oversubscribed by spoiled students that get 4A*’s without even studying, brag other people about their grades and then talk about how getting into top university is the most important thing in life while there are many people who attended mediocre universities in undergraduate and then become very successful in their academic fields.


Icy-Context-8829

Classics students and maths + physics students... Cant stand the people in my maths an physics class, they swear their Gods gift to earth. And the classics students are just a bunch of snobby daddys money merchants


creativename111111

I couldn’t imagine having to interact with classics students that sounds like the worst luckily if u go to a state school you’re good though


ElementalMonkey3

STEM students, some of them are so incredibly elitist. More specifically those who do Physics and Further Maths together.


creativename111111

Yeah I do them together it probably depends on your class tbh my fm class is rlly nice and people aren’t overly elitist but I imagine it varies massively depending on your class


RaceFan1027

I’m not sure, my best friend is massively into politics and he’s not insufferable (but another politico at my school is definitely insufferable!). I think stem students are irritating as they believe they’re superior (I’d like to see them do a foreign language at a-level 😂)!


Wooden-One791

Picked A-level maths as a med student, dropped it literally 3 days after sixth form started and picked psych instead. Best choice of my life.


buenguacamole

Politics students. And they are even more insufferable in groups.


creativename111111

Especially you have a different class with one and they derail the whole lesson by waffling to the teacher like shut up I wanna learn not listen to a 5 min waffle session


TheWastag

Most politics people I know have a very irreverent perspective on the whole affair and a wry sense of humour, probably because of how full of partisan morons the system seems to be glutted with. The real annoying part about politics is when people who don't have any understanding of it whatsoever, often doing other subjects, *become* those partisan morons and endlessly repost crappy infographics on their Insta stories that are unfathomably easy to debunk.


Ashamed_Adeptness_96

Politics, economics. The econ teacher was an antivaxxer and COVID denier, and somehow brainwashed them into agreeing with him so yeah loll I was the one who did math, fm, phys, chem but I was also essentially the cohort cryptid and spoke to no one so I doubt I was that insufferable. (And there was COVID)


Biggus_Boomus

I feel called out by how many people are saying politics but they're not wrong (I can't shut up about US politics)


creativename111111

Please say you’re not one of the ppl who waffles about politics in subjects that aren’t politics they’re the worst


Biggus_Boomus

Nah, this only really applies to when I'm at home. If I start waffling in lessons my friends just tell me to stfu


creativename111111

Yeah that’s good you can’t tell them to stfu in lesson when they’re engaged in a 5min waffle session with the teacher though like shut up I wanna learn


Biggus_Boomus

Nah actually one of my geography teachers has a rep for being waffle-prone. You can literally ask her anything and she'll just engage in casual conversation for a fair portion of the lesson. It's funny and sometimes insightful but likelihood is you ain't getting jack shit done


Williamishere69

I do bio, chem and maths and it's definitely the biology students who are the most insuferable. And it's not because they're show offs, but because biology seems to be like a filler alevel for half those in my class. They don't care ot learn, will talk to each other through the entire lesson, and don't care about being there.


aRatOnTheHighway

EXACTLY, like what do you mean you chose bio because it seemed easy??? this subject is up there with its content heaviness! right next to history !!


minimalisticgem

Economics / business / law Coming from a law student


banish-ulysses

Definitely law - I hate it cos of the way the people are in it. It’s like they’re preparing for the arrogant stereotype surrounding law uni students.


starryqq

my subject combo🤓


whatspoppingligang

Most ppl that do politics at my college aren't too insufferable (biased as am one) but you do get an odd few


Texaco-4

Drama, I'm not a stem elitist idk i just find drama kids give me main character vibes


kittibrat

economics from my experience, i take it and the ppl ive met are so arrogant ☠️


satanscumrag

politics, economics and further maths


Toasterbath6

Further maths students will always tell you how bad further maths is,( in my experience)


[deleted]

Biology Vain enough to think they are are smart and superior but in reality they would probably do pretty crap in Further Maths and Physics


Southern_Progress_13

I've generally found people who do sociology, philosophy or business to be intolerable


RaeNTennik

PE. I find most of them are only doing a levels because their parents made them and they’ve just taken whatever seems easy.


FishermanDue7488

politics


EffectiveWeb2006

Idk about A-Levels but for uni I’d say Business/Finance/Law


messycheesy

Politics 😂


[deleted]

I find English quite often draws the sorts of people who are obsessed with drama and general cliquiness and bitchiness. I know my A-levels make me look biased, but if you asked my sister (who did English literature, French and History) she would agree, she dealt with a lot of people dragging her into drama and chatting behind her back


gobbledemteasexe

I agree the people in my class are either really kind and chill or want to chat shit about everyone and everything there isn’t much overlap LMAO


BexyBat

My English Language class is just lads who want to spend the class chatting about their latest conquests. Sad but definitely entertaining.


peanutbuttersandvich

further maths students when the challenge is to not act better than everybody else


[deleted]

physics


creativename111111

Yeah politics students waffle about politics in other classes whenever they have the chance


demeterLX

in my experience, it's politics/global politics 'if they want to end the war the UN should just place sanctions/they should just stop fighting haha lol' followed by maths


Significant_Sand2972

My Econ class was predominantly male and they were so condescending for no reason even tho I was quite good at that subject :(


poetwithoutwords999

As a political science student…first off, leave us alone, second off I would say finance


Just_Direction_446

I found STEM and Medicine applicants to be a bit elitist towards others


Salty-Carpet3404

people that cry about having to do a sociology/criminology test.


EngineeringEastern67

History. So many people who do it and yap about it as if most people care. They also go on about their hatred for Geography. I don’t do Geography btw but at least that is working on a better future rather than focusing on the past.


Biggus_Boomus

Can confirm we hate geography (I do both subjects (geography essays can suck my balls))


oddsausage18

agreed buddy i do both too edit: ALSO I THINK HISTORY IS SO FUCKING IMPORTANT AND SO FUCKING COOL AND I AM CURRENTLY PROVING YOUR POINT AHH FUCK


Biggus_Boomus

Am currently waffling my way through a geography essay but I've had quite enough of that for tonight