all right as you saw in the last video we are back from turkey as you can see a little bit of a tan
newer fresh fake arms no i honestly could never spend this much more teacher anyway live with
a tangent there let's get my contract in today's video i am going to be rating my a-level choices
maths further maths physics and chemistry now we'll be rating them based on three different
factors all one to ten to give an overall score out of 30. so those two factors are
concept difficulty basically how difficult is the subject to hold content interest how
interesting is the subject as a whole and then finally how easy is it to revise and get a good
grade and then obviously at the end i have a subjective conclusion that's like how much each
has helped me and whether or not i'd actually do it again yeah anyway let's get straight in
first subject chemistry i make some emotions with chemistry like i loved it and then hated it and
i loved it i hate it i kind of go through like a roller coaster of those emotions but
content difficulty that is a mad one obviously it depends on who you are as a person and your
strengths my strengths of work and the sciences and the maths but very much towards the math
and the physics side of things so at first the content could be quite difficult to understand
and it was one of those subjects i would really go down rabbit holes quite easily when it came
to the content like the understanding or to be able to achieve a really solid understanding of
all the concepts you'd have to go to university level you could get away with understanding the
the basis of it but i was one of those people that would like really dig down and understand why
something happened and if i didn't know why i i just wouldn't be able to move on i needed to know
exactly why something was the case and i would go down like so many different holes to get to that
answer and it was one of those subjects where there were so many different variables and you
end up going into the physics to understand the chemistry because everything is built on physics
so for that reason the content difficulty i'm going to give it a taste head so if you are like
me and just want to understand everything and understand the rationale is going to be really
hard to get your head around the concept if you just want to go away with all of the information
you need to answer the exams and do well in the exams it's not going to be too difficult it's
going to be relatively easy to understand sorry not 8 out of 10 i forget that it goes the other
way around because it was so difficult i'm going to give it a 4 out of 10 content difficulty cool
content interest how interesting was the subject as a whole right this is a weird one because i
found it to be more interesting and like more exciting after i'd learn everything once i
learned everything it was really sick being able to apply all and understand like how everything
worked and that was really enjoyable but when it came to actually learning it for the most part
the content was pretty interesting but then when it came to things like the organics like
it did lose me a little bit i wasn't really interested in finding like what compounds made
different compounds i was more interested in like the physics behind the reactions things like that
so when it came to the organics it did make me slightly bored at times and i didn't really rate
that side of things but then by the mechanisms and putting out the mechanisms i did enjoy that but
because organic chemistry was a large proportion of the course and it was just mainly memorizing as
opposed to actually understanding the process and things like that i didn't find it was as
interesting as it could have been and for that reason i'm only a content interest like it was
for the most probably interesting a six out of ten now how easy was it to revise this was
actually a lot better because once you've got to the basic level of understanding of the content
but reason was pretty simple for the organic it was mainly memorization so using anki was super
super effective and like i said organic was a large proportion of the course and then for the
rest of it it was really one of those things where there wasn't a huge number of ways that you could
ask specific questions about the content so doing loads of practice papers meant it was really easy
to gauge pretty much anything that they could ask you so for example like organic mechanisms
you could learn the mechanisms and then you'd be able to answer any questions on it for the maths
side of things and like moles atomic equations whatever once you knew the mass and understood
the math you could answer again any question on it all the other things like back titrations and
the practicals you just had to memorize the practicals so anki worked really well
you just had to know the content and then you just be able to regret to take that and get full marks
and yeah because of all of that the fact you could memorize most of the content and there wasn't too
many angles that they could take to ask questions about my content but everything was pretty easy
for that reason i'm going to give chemistry 9 out of 10 for revision and how easy it was to
revise cool so i guess for chemistry and overall score out of 30 of 22. now do i recommend taking
chemistry quite honestly yes i do it was a really good subject like i did enjoy it but i would only
recommend taking it if it allowed you to get onto routes that you were considering otherwise there
was no point putting yourself through the stress of the subject when you could do other subjects
to get to where you want to be easier like for example if you want to go into something
like medicine chemical engineering some forms of general engineering it is really really valuable
and a lot of the content does align with that courses content or those courses content if you're
going to do something like a language business economics something like that like i wouldn't
recommend putting yourself through that stress there is very little if any overlap between the
course content and that subject's content and for the demand of that subject it might not be worth
it so really do consider whether it opens those doors or if you just have like a genuine passion
for the subjects but aren't considering going down a route in it it might still be worth taking right
maths okay math is an interesting one so let's get right into it how difficult is maths well
it depends quite honestly on how well you did the dtc the a level math course just builds on those
fundamentals so if you really didn't understand the gcse math as a whole you're not going to find
the content to be too difficult at maths a level like it's pretty much the same relative difficulty
as gcses were but obviously at gcse you didn't know the gcse content so you're looking at the
a-level content it would be like ridiculously hard but because you know the gcse content learning the
a level is the same difficulty as learning the gcse if that makes sense so the gcse is
the foundation if you're not confident in the gcse you're not going to be confident when it comes to
a level if you're confident in the gtc it's going to be no harder than learning the gtse content and
for that reason i'm gonna give maths difficulty a solid nine out of ten right content interest now
very very subjective one here the only reason that i found it really interesting was because i love
maths i love like concrete answers uh i i love mathematical reasoning all of that if you don't
like mathematical reasoning if you don't like math if you don't like figuring everything out
for yourself and learning different methods to do so without immediately seeing the relevance
you're not gonna find it super interesting and it's not gonna be as enjoyable for me i didn't
really care about seeing the applications before i learned it it was causing the applications after
but it all depends on your teacher and whether they make aware of the mathematical applications
of the stuff you're learning or not which lots of teachers don't i was lucky enough to have a
teacher that did yeah looking at the maths on its own and not considering the applications
the content interest very subjective but for me it was an 8 out of 10. like i just loved it and then
finally how easy was it to revise we already know like maths so so simple to revise all you have to
do is pass papers and then escape from those past papers if you get some stuff wrong revise
that content get a better understanding of those concepts tackle a new past paper and just carry
on in fact i've actually got full revision methods for both chemistry maths physics and formats and
math was by far the easiest if you want to watch that links in the description or you can click up
there but it pretty much is just past papers when it comes to maths and how easy it is to revise
solid 9 out of 10. so overall out of 30 26 absolutely banging score would i recommend
taking maths wholeheartedly yes it is applicable to pretty much anything you do in life and that
was completely reaffirmed speaking to all of the students on different courses even in things like
psychology you have to do statistics you have to do some maths and you learn all of that in the a
level if there's one subject i genuinely believe that everyone should take it would be maths it is
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love hate relationship for sure starting with concept difficulty maybe it was just the fact
that i was so burned out after all of the standard math stuff when it came to further maths it just
felt like a little bit of a step up and on top of all of the math i was already doing it felt like
such a chore i genuinely loved maths but there was a point where you're doing too much math
and i felt like it was borderline at that point it didn't quite reach it yet but it was borderline
there and yeah again the a-level maths kind of behaved the foundation for the further math so
again it was one step up and because you were still revising all of the a-level stuff and
weren't fully confident with that yeah it's a bit like the gap between gcse and a-level but
a-level to further maths because you weren't completely confident in the a-level content
and made the further content harder and for that reason i'm going to give the difficulty further
maths a solid 5.5 out of 10. it's still better than chemistry a little bit worse than the math
right content interest i want to be straight i'm just going with a score solid four i know rhymed
absolutely wonderful but yeah like i again i think it was just the fact that i'd done so so much
math by this point and i was kind of burnt out supervising all the other a-level content but my
interest in the stuff i was learning because the topics were much more niche and likely only used
in more specialized applications i was finding it hard to appreciate the value of the uh the methods
and everything's great in moderation doing that much maths led me to not be as interested in it
and the fact that they became more sure to do the content when i didn't find it as interesting but
then finally how easy is it to revise again pretty identical to normal maths it is really really easy
to revise once you've actually learned it and if you can now put in the energy to revise it on top
of the mass content but as a standalone subject it is really simple to revise for that reason i'm
also going to give it a 9 out of 10. so overall score 18.5 out of 30 the worst so far and would i
recommend taking it now there is only a very niche circumstance where i would recommend taking it it
was the only subject i considered dropping out of the four subjects to save time and dedicate that
excess time to the other subjects and focusing on those i think the only time i would recommend
taking further math is if you are considering an engineering group and going into an engineering
degree because then the content overlap is quite significant and learning all of the further
content is going to help you when it comes to your course and actually getting ahead of everything
like that because for me mechanical engineering the first month or so was building on the further
content and we were relearning a lot of it so it just does give you that step ahead of everyone
that didn't do it takes a bit of the pressure off makes it a little less stressful but if you aren't
going to do an engineering degree just the sheer amount of math that you're doing you're going to
have to absolutely love it if you don't absolutely love maths there's not going to be much point and
you may as well choose a subject you're more passionate about something like physics history
languages whatever to something different so that you're not spending like 90 of your time doing
maths and you have a bit more diversity with the stuff you're doing on a day-to-day basis that is
what i would recommend at the end of the day like it's not a bad subject i still did enjoy it it
just did get a bit stressful at times maybe that's because i did four a levels i just felt like maths
was much much more than everything else i don't know it's just one of those objects that you
really need to consider a bit more okay finally physics now i am very very much biased when it
comes to physics because i absolutely love it like i love understanding concepts behind everything
that makes the world work looking at different phenomena and being able to explain exactly how
it happens like that is just the sickest thing so concept difficulty if you do maths alongside
physics a lot of the physics is just standard maths there's a massive content over that there so
it makes the content much much easier if you don't do maths it's a little harder but the concepts
are relatively simple you can pick it up quite quickly with physics because it is the fundament
of everything there are a lot less rabbit holes than something like chemistry to actually unpick
everything and get to the truth as we know it obviously like the world is changing we don't know
exactly how it works we just have models that fear current observations but it's cool being
able to go straight to those current models and not needing to know like a gazillion other things
in order to from first principles explain it i love that i found it really useful when it came
to actually understanding concepts and i didn't find myself having to spend hours at a time
trying to unpick everything that reason content difficulty straight 9 out of 10. i absolutely
loved it maybe i'm biased i found it pretty easy again on the same note content interest straight
9 out of 10 being able to understand everything around you was brilliant i absolutely loved it
no more words needed now how easy was it to arise well again most of it is just maths that is the
easiest subject to revise and then everything else was just memorization there were very few paths
that the examiners could pitch questions around the content so once you've done a few past papers
on each topic once you've reviewed the topic as a whole you're pretty set for any questions they
could ask you again i've made a video on my exact revision method but it was pretty straightforward
for that reason i'm also going to give it a 9 out of 10. so overall score 27.5 out of 30. this
is by far my favorite subject i absolutely loved it i would wholeheartedly recommend
taking it if you love anything to do with maths into anything to do with physics or understanding
the world and really do you want to dive into why everything works but if you don't like enjoy that
or don't think you're that kind of person it is going to be pretty strenuous it's probably
only worth considering if you're going into something like engineering again because it
is so so useful for that and for me there's a massive overlap when it came to the content of
my mechanical engineering degree and the content that i learned in the a level cool anyway those
are the rankings of all of the subjects based on my subjective experience again if you want
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