Anyone taking 6 AS/A levels?

How come they didnt let you take another one? May i know what type of six-form you went to? (Privite/state, mix/single sex school)

I'm thinking of taking Maths, Biology, Chemistry and general studies

I went to what was the best sixth form in the country the other year according to the Guradian. Greenhead in huddersfield. It is a mixed sixth form who choose about 1/3 of their intake.
I'm unsure of why they would'nt let me take another, I think it was timetabling problems.

wow! amazing
timetabling problems, i see
How did you cope taking 5 A-levels? Did you have much free time to yourself?

If I view General studies as an A-level, I'm taking 5; Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Psychology, and General studies.

You could probably manage it, depending on what you got/get for GCSE's.

Are you in your last year of six-form?
If i do manage to take 6 A-levels, wouldnt the uni. sees it as something bad?

Yeah I still had lots of free time and could have fit another A Level just fine but the only one I could do was French and as I hate languages I told them where to go.
Taking 5 A-Levels was easy for me and I didn't get typical all A*'s at GCSE.

So in other words, it all depends on the time tabling and whether the college/six-form let you take on the 6th subjects right?

Yes, I am at 6th form. We didnt have the option to do 6; although, I was told I could possibly do art in my free time If I wanted to (but I didn't)

I'm not sure if it would put you at a disadvantage, but I'm sure someone else here would. From what I've seen though, don't universities take your 3 highest grades (from the subjects they want for the course) and if you took a forth AS/A2 (exc. GS) they only required a pass?

May i know how long ago was this?
Any of your friends/ people you know in your six-form took 6 A-levels?
So in other words, it all depends on the time tabling and whether the college/six-form let you take on the 6th subjects right?

I did 6 A-Levels (Maths, F. Maths, Economics, Physics, English literature and French) in the last year of the old A-Level, and even with the new AS/A2 system I would still strongly advice against taking anything more that 4. No university would ask you for more that 4 A2s, so unless you would really enjoy doing an extra subject, don't bother, you would get less out of it than you would put in.

Also, remember a lot of universities don't count General Studies, especially Oxbridge.

I think it mostly does, however, at my 6th form, you had to get more than 5 A*-C grades to 4 A-levels, and less, and you could only do three. (Somthing like that - but it was grade dependant)

No university asks for more than three A2s and an AS, what's the point in doing loads more?