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A Level law IS a soft option I am responding to the above comment. I am a former school teacher turned lawyer. School teachers of soft subjects and exam boards need to stop trying to fool students that all A-levels are veiwed equally. These people do so for purely selfish reasons to justify their own position and to bulk out the numbers of students taking their subject. Disadvantaged schools encourage able students to do these subjects in order to manipulate their own statistics. They know that there is a higher chance of them getting the top grades in 'soft' subjects and this looks better during inspections from the Local Authority and Ofsted. There are many able students who have been short changed by their schools because they have not been told the facts of university entrance process. My advice to any aspiring law student who wants to get into a top university is to do traditional subjects at A-level. Universities see these as giving a far more rigorous academic examination than the likes of A-level Law, Media Studies etc. Anybody who does not accept this or tells school kids otherwise is either misinformed, deluded or doing so for purely selfish reasons.

3-Dec-2008

10:57 pm