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no, higher.

Physics and maths are good for engineering. If you're offered and engineering BTECs, take the subsidiary course. That will mean you'll have space on your timetable for other subjects. BTEC engineering is extremely rewarding and shows employers that you are well rounded i.e. not just academic.

I've been doing a level 2 engineering BTEC for the past year and 3/4 and I'll be doing level 3 in college (hampshire's 6th form) next year.

tbh id drop art, its a waste of time. in its place add another academic subject.

English probably won't be needed for engineering, you just need to be very good at maths and physics.

I do very well in art. it's not a waste of time and can help with designing. After all, art has been around since the start of time and we wouldn't be without it.

I mean for going to uni, unless you're doing an art course then you'd be better off doing something more academic- it's about selling yourself to them so something like a science or even hist/geog will look better than art for anything other than art/design/media courses

There are dedicated Design courses. Why take art when you can take them?

As a Final year uni student in engineering, Art will NOT help you what so ever. Music has probably done me better than art would ever have.

And Engineering BTEC Lvl3 is much better than A-levels experience wise. You may lose out on maths skills etc, but you beat any a-level student in practical work like CAD designing, drawing and machine experience.

Also an engineering design course limits you to the amount of jobs available, since you learn design in a normal engineering course, but not major engineering in a design course. Designers are those people who draw all those fancy drawings. Engineers are those people that the designer's work is stupid and could never work in real life.

+1 million for Lvl 3 Eng. Taking it next year in subsidiary form along with maths(A), physics(A) and history 20th century (AS)

What? What is this BTEC level 3 thingy mabob? I'm only in S4 right now.

It must be different in Scotland to the rest of the UK then...

There is no hope for you frizz. We can't help you with your course problems...

Level 2 is GCSE equivalent, Level 3 is A-level equivalent

I'm doing SQA higher.... then advanced higher....

So higher is UK level 2, Advanced higher is UK level 3.

I see no reason why you would need English. Art may be an unusual choice for engineering but if you enjoy it, then do it.

Been there, done that. I did English to O level (yes I'm that old) and it was a requirement at the time to be able to get into apprenticeships (along with maths and either physics or similar). Once I got into the BTEC side of things they were only really interested in Maths to miss out the first year foundation style course.

That said, not having some sort of qualification in English won't go down well with a lot of employers. Don't believe all the bollocks that schools spout...

...about what's important for getting a job. In engineering you'll be getting employed by people MY age and we still think that literacy and numeracy are as important or more so than your degree in "engineering design" or whatever.

You're literacy wont improve from what is required though from English... The kind of work you do in English is not the kind of report writing you do in Engineering. Level 2 english (GCSE) is fine. Lozart, from my experience i'd actually disagree with you on that one.

Fair enough, it's been a while since I was at that end of the engineering ladder. Granted it's not worth doing an A level in English for it but good basic results are important.