Careful with Art, my Mum and sister saw those through to their degrees, it's difficult to get a job in something art related because it's so popular - hence Dazzag's joke, my Mum and sister work in Woolworths, my Mum does part time freelance jobs as an illustrator - the money isn't good. But it doesn't mean you won't do well, it just means you really need to apply yourself after the degrees come in...that's of course if you're gonna take it that far.
Quote: "There is zero guidance on what will get you a good mark, how the frig do they mark your drawings anyway!"
Art A Level comes with theory and history as well, meaning you write a lot of essays - when I did Art GCSE (and from witnessing a mother and sister going through college and uni doing it) they were marked on 4 AO requirements, can't remember what they were - but they don't measure the quality of drawing but how you can keep your work relevant to the topic, doing what you need to do to follow the project requirements and even to lets say an employer requesting for an illustrator and keeping to their specification. My Mum won a competition with the uni because she kept to a specification of an employer so closely - then she got 4 freelance requests from the employer that funded the compo. (The Abbey Theatre in St Albans)
But as an A Level alone, it'll help give you qualifications and may as well get your A Levels in something you like, but if it interests you career wise - think about what kind of difficulties in finding a job art related you'll find. No doubt I'll be the same with writing.
Hakuna Matata
