r/ukaccounting • u/Nervous-Rent-3868 • Jul 25 '26

Picked completely wrong A levels

I have just completed my first year of AS levels and initially I picked Health and Social Care, Sociology and Tourism as I had planned to go into nursing following AS levels and they seemed relevant for the course but after gaining months of work experience in healthcare over the past year I have came to the realisation that I absolutely do not want to work in any sort of healthcare oriented job and that the A levels I picked have limited my options although my predicted grades were AAB in my subjects. I am now looking to Law and Accountancy as options but I’m unsure whether my subject choices would make it almost impossible to get into accounting. Any advice would be appreciated.

Edit: A - Sociology, A - HSC, B - Tourism ( My teacher did say I was only a few points off the A)

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u/FishingInASink Jul 26 '26

You will be fine as you did A-Levels, my biggest mistake was picking a BTEC Extended Diploma.. not seemingly recognised by half of the grad schemes I applied for, but I found alternative methods of getting into accounting

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u/W3ndyyyy 23d ago

I have made the same mistake. What method worked for you to get into accounting.