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Choose the Right A Levels

Choose the Right A Levels

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The gap between a good career and a great career can be something as simple as choosing the right A levels.

Why? Because the choices you make now could determine which university course, apprenticeship or job you can access in the future. With so much at stake, it can feel overwhelming or almost impossible to get right.

Fully updated, this 2nd edition of Choose the Right A Levels will be your essential guide as you explore your options. Helping you make confident choices, it answers key questions such as:

  • What does the course outline look like and how is the subject assessed?
  • What will I need at GCSE to study the subject and how does it compare to GCSE?
  • What key skills does the subject draw on and develop?
  • Which subjects are preferred or required for certain degree courses and careers?
  • What subjects combine well together?

Written by expert Careers Adviser Ray Le Tarouilly, this trusted guide will give you a solid foundation for future success.

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Gatsby Benchmarks

This book will help your institution meet the following Gatsby Benchmarks:

  • Benchmark 2: Learning from careers and labour market information
  • Benchmark 3: Addressing the needs of each pupil
  • Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
  • Benchmark 7: Encounters with further and higher education

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Product Information

To be published: 6 September 2024

Edition:2nd

Length:208 pages

Dimensions:23.4 x 15.6 cm

Meet the author: Ray Le Tarouilly

Ray Le Tarouilly’s decades of career guidance experience encompasses a range of ages. He has extensive knowledge of post-16 pathways, as well as job-hunting skills. Ray is a frequent media contributor on career-based topics and lectures at numerous public information employment sessions.

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Wendy Kerley
Informative and Inspiring: a guide for prospective and current A level students

This resource offers valuable advice and information to help prospective A level students explore and compare the subjects they're interested in. Each A level subject is thoroughly examined, with insightful accounts from current students. The guide also outlines potential subject combinations, providing reassurance about choices. Entry requirements, available facilities, and extracurricular opportunities can then be easily checked with local providers.

A helpful chart displays university degree subjects with the A levels they could require or recommend. Additionally, parents can access up-to-date information about Post-16 educational options.

While the title suggests the book is geared toward Year 11 students, those in Years 12 and 13 will also find it useful, as it covers progression options from specific A level subjects, offers advice on related university courses, and provides an overview of employment opportunities and graduate roles.

This quick and easy-to-digest reference guide is ideal for use in career guidance sessions and should feature in resource areas. Further enhancements could include accompanying worksheets or a new chapter with reflective activities to help students with decision-making. A change of title toward a less prescriptive, more supportive tone would be of benefit.

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Janette Crompton-Rooks
Concise and Informative Book

This books gives a well laid out, comprehensive overview of each A-level subject including subjects that go well together. Each subject section also touches on studying it at HE level plus relevant jobs at A-level and degree level. An easy to read chart is also included which allows students to see at a glance what A-levels may be required for particular degrees they are considering.

With so many different post 16 options nowadays, the chapter explaining all the alternatives to A-levels is extremely useful, making what can be a very confusing range of choices far more understandable to students and parents.

This book is, in my opinion, an essential addition to any school careers library.

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Joanna Greatwich
Easy to use and accessible for all.

As a long term Careers Adviser of A level students, some of whom had chosen the wrong A levels- with all that implied- this book is a welcome addition to my library and is an essential resource.
It clearly and concisely outlines what A levels are, what they demand of the student, how they can be used to progress to different routes, and makes it clear which are needed in order to be able to apply for specific degrees and professions- debunking some myths in the process.

Parents in particular could really benefit from having this book- especially if they have children with widely differing ambitions.
Parents and young people need to know the differences between the vocational and academic options, and this volume has a useful update including T levels and their roll out, and other vocational qualifications.

It should be a visible guide in secondary schools' libraries- and ideally also used by teachers and Careers Advisers as a resource in that key time when students are choosing their A levels.