Alevel Business studies VS Economics

daone053

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Hopefulmom

原帖由 daone053 於 16-03-31 發表
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Are you talking about GCE A Level, and intending to apply to UK universities?  If so, would suggest to go for Economics but not Business Studies, as some UK universities view Business Studies as a "soft subject" which is less preferred when considering uni application.

slamai

daone053 發表於 16-3-31 13:55
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Both subjects are not facilitating subjects (see below) according to the UK Russell Group of universities:

• Biology

• Chemistry

• English literature

• Geography

• History

• Physics

• Modern and classical languages

• Maths and further maths

scso

請問將來讀會計或精算是否一定要A level選business studies及economics?

Ruby1219

原帖由 slamai 於 16-03-31 發表
本帖最後由 slamai 於 16-3-31 15:12 編輯

What is facilitating subject ?

HHHR

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兩科都不是必需的。Maths 同 Further Maths較重要。

HHHR

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If you don’t yet know what you’ll want to study atuniversity, there are some subjects which will keep your degree options openuntil you decide which course to take. Thesesubjects are commonly known as ‘facilitating subjects’ — they are the ones that open doors to more degrees andmore professions than others. It’s not about ‘hard’ or ‘soft’ subjects, but theright ones.

Download the following pdf file from the Russell Group Universities website to know more:

https://www.russellgroup.ac.uk/media/5272/informedchoices-print.pdf

Ruby1219

原帖由 HHHR 於 16-04-01 發表
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If you don’t yet know what you’ll want to study atuniversity, there are some ...

thank you so much! my son finally picked History over Econ, on top of double maths, chem and phy, all are facilitating subjects now😁

fingers crossed

daone053

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點解geog都會係？讀geog對於apply咩系有幫助？

slamai

daone053 發表於 16-3-31 13:55
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What is/are your target undergraduate programme(s)?

daone053

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Medic/business

Guardian

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My son is also thinking taking these subjects for A Levels too, but hubby doesn't agree him taking history. Fingers crossed that he studies well for his GCSE first.

Ruby1219

原帖由 Guardian 於 16-04-01 發表
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My son is also thinking taking these subjects for A Levels too, but hubby does ...

Why your husband not agree with him taking history? It is a very solid subject in UK! And the teachers there teach very well. My son was very turned off by his history teacher in HK, but then the teacher in UK magically ignited his passion in history!

Also, as parent I won't dictate his choice of subjects, but just giving advise and support

HHHR

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Facilitating subjects可以當係「百搭科目」，並非用作報讀某些特定科目。Facilitating subjects一般能提供不同學系所需要的能力，故此修讀這些科目而成績優異的學生，可以選擇報讀的學系較多。
例如：地理同歷史需要學生掌握如何理解、分析、綜合和闡釋不同種類的文字及/或數據資料，並從中進行論述解說，是很多大學科目，特別是社會科學必備能力，故此很多大學的學系都認為地理歷史成績好的學生較為適合修讀它們的學科。亦因此大學一般對這些科目較為看重，就是人們說的"hard subjects"。

Shootastar

I think if you do well in History (in addition to other science or art subjects), you will have an edge when you apply for colleges.

Ruby1219

原帖由 Shootastar 於 16-04-02 發表
I think if you do well in History (in addition to other science or art subjects), you will have an e ...

Yes. That's what I was told by my son's teachers. He first picked double math, phy and chem, and naturally want to add econ as humanity subject like most other HK/Asian students do (his UK classmates said this is classic Asian choice 😂). But then his history teacher tried to convince him to take history instead of econ. So we asked his housemaster and other teachers for advice. Most of them said taking history on top of other science subjects would provide him a sharper edge.

His math teacher said taking double math would demonstrate your logic competence, while history would show high analytical and wiring skills. So they make a perfect though challenging set of subject selection for students to demonstrate their academic excellence.

Although it should be easier for my son to take econ as he has a good math foundation, he still wants to study history from his personal interest perspective, I just leave this decision to him.

Also his teachers said it's not mandatory to have GCE econ for applying econ for university. So he still has the chance to study econ in U if he wants to by the time.

Shootastar

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This was also my daughter's experience.

daone053

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isnt alevel students can only take 3subjects?so your son will choose chem math hist?

daone053

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So your suggestion is take hist/geog ?

Ruby1219

原帖由 daone053 於 16-04-02 發表
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isnt alevel students can only take 3subjects?so your son will choose chem math ...

No, he will take 5 subjects for lower six then probably drop to 4 for upper six. He will take math, further math, chemistry, physics and history. But chemistry it will be half (time) block and his teacher said double math = 1.5 subjects in terms of time.

Actually he took GCE Chinese already. That means he will have 5-6 GCE subjects achieved by then.