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Should I Stay On At My 6th Form Or Go Elsewhere?
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I asked for the prospectus of the sixth form that is said to be the best in my borough. When I recieved the prospectus they also sent a list of the 6th forms / colleges in my borough in order of best to worst according to A-Level results. I was surprised to see my schools 6th form at around 10th place out of the 20 colleges / 6th forms as I thought that it would be much higher. I also applied to the 6th form that was placed 2nd however this 6th form is quite far from where i live. Now I am not sure whether i should just stay at my schools 6th form or go elsewhere?
How much of your final A-Level grades depend on yourself meaning your effort, hard work, etc and how much do they depend on other factors such as your teachers? Should I just stay at my 6th form?
How much of your final A-Level grades depend on yourself meaning your effort, hard work, etc and how much do they depend on other factors such as your teachers? Should I just stay at my 6th form?
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teaching at a level is NOT the same as at school... you need to be doing a lot more of your own learning rather than relying on your teachers/lecturers... otherwise your grades at the end of it will be pretty dreadful... however good your lecturers are.
your learning needs to be independant. - that means YOU are responsible for what you are learning... based on the guidelines given by your lecturers.
the idea is you use your teachers/lecturers at a level (and above), only really if you are stuck on something... or whatever... it's far from the same sort of teaching as you get at high school where you are told specifics of everything.
as for what you should do, it's 100% your decision. nobody here can tell you what you "should" be doing.
sorry but in my experience that's not necessarily true, i went to a very good school, made very little extra effort in my a levels and still got 3 As. i would say this is mirrored by most of my friends.
mate if i were you i would swap to the best sixth form you can, there are reasons why they achieve better than others, particularly learning atmosphere and teaching quality
I couldn't wait to leave secondary school, it was all too familiar and over the five years I was there I became increasingly tired of the people there. Infact the people who went to the school sixth form don't appear to have moved on, they are all just the same as they were before, the quiet ones are still quiet, the horrible ones are still horrible etc.
A change of scenery could make all the difference to you.
Sixth form also means you have to spend far more time on the college premesis and crap like registers, rules etc.
A lot of it depends on you though, if you have close friends who are staying on, you enjoy extra curricular activities and the teachers think highly of you then sixth form will suit you well. If you prefer to be independent then you'll be better off at college
I moved for my A2s, and I'm so glad I did.
worked and i went to a nice 6 form college, okay was full of essex people but made good friends and enjoyed my subjects, chemistry physics and maths