Changing A Levels

[Posiesmum]

...and law has opened more doors for me than teaching. I have been a tax inspector, a community worker, a civil servant and a police officer!
I think op's daughter should study what she enjoys.

[Imagineer2802]

Originally Posted by Posiesmum

...and law has opened more doors for me than teaching. I have been a tax inspector, a community worker, a civil servant and a police officer!
I think op's daughter should study what she enjoys.

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Yes but with all due respect, she wants to be a teacher, and ultimately, law won't help her reach that goal. It is likely that at teaching and university interviews she'll be asked why she has got such contrasting subjects. It's usually seen by universities as indecisive and says that she doesn't really know what she wants or have a passion for any one thing in particular. Of course this may be far from the truth, but unfortunately that's not how interviewers will see it.

[skalexander]

Originally Posted by Posiesmum

...and law has opened more doors for me than teaching. I have been a tax inspector, a community worker, a civil servant and a police officer!
I think op's daughter should study what she enjoys.

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That's a broad array of vocations, but one assumes you didn't achieve all that with a law A Level.

Originally Posted by Imagineer2802

Yes but with all due respect, she wants to be a teacher, and ultimately, law won't help her reach that goal. It is likely that at teaching and university interviews she'll be asked why she has got such contrasting subjects. It's usually seen by universities as indecisive and says that she doesn't really know what she wants or have a passion for any one thing in particular. Of course this may be far from the truth, but unfortunately that's not how interviewers will see it.

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That's the point I'm making, the OP's daughter wants to teach history, so adding law to environmental sciences and health and social care creates a random mix of subjects. But OP you know your daughter best, you know what her strengths are and more than anything she should take subjects which she has an interest and an aptitude in

[Twin mummy]

I'm a history graduate and ex secondary history teacher. History courses both at degree level and as a PGCE are usually really oversubscribed. Chosing at least 3 "facilitating" subjects as already suggested would be my advice. English, either lit or lang, is great as a complementary course. When teaching being able to offer another humanities subject was often a plus point on interview. Law and history complement each other but as Kate said with the other subjects it becomes a fairly random mix.
How about getting her to contact one of the universities she might fancy and ask their advice?

Personally I did History, Eng lit and Economics at A level which offered a great balance.

[WillowFae]

I happen to be looking at university application data at the moment and one section is A level combinations. For the start of the 2012 academic year the most popular combinations among students that got accepted onto a History/Philosophical courses are as follows:

1. English Lit, History, RS
2. English Lit, Government & Politics, History
3. English Lit, History, Psychology
4. English Lit, Georgraphy, History
5. Art & Design, English Lit, History
6. English Lit, History, Maths
7. Biology, English Lit, History
8. English Lit, French, History
9. Government & Politics, History, RS
10. Classic Civilisation, English Lit, History,

Law doesn't appear. Looks like English Lit would be your best option, closely followed by RS or Government & Politics.

[itsrachelhere]

Maybe her heads a bit all over the place because of the exam
pressure? I would leave for now and have a serious talk about it once the exams are out the way and she has a clear mind to think rationally about it.

[Blossom]

Thank you all so very much for your words of advice. We have learned more from people on here, complete strangers who don't know me from Adam, than what my DD has from her school. We feel at the minute as if the school can't wait for the current Y11's to leave, the poor kids have been left to fend for themselves and had no help whatsover, no careers advice nothing, so once again Thank you all so much from me and my DD

[Guest]

If she wants to be a primary teacher she can do whichever subjects at A-Level. I did PE and media and I'm just about to finish my second year at uni, studying to be a primary teacher. I just had to make sure I got enough UCAS points for my course and they also wanted me to have at least a C at GCSE in maths, English and science (however my uni has now said you have to get a B at these subjects to get into the course) Hope this helps, I think it would be best to do what she is good at and enjoys.

Edited to add, I've just chosen my specialism which is history, so there is still opportunity to do a lot of history at uni!

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