[Simran Mars Foster]

This probably isn't the best question to put in this topic but i was just wondering are individual A level classes quite small? If so how many people are we talking?

[member961189]

It depends how many ppl want to do the particular course however, by law there can be no more than 30 pupils in a class.

In my AS psychology class there was 60 of us and it was split into two groups, now there's only like 35 of us but were still two groups xD


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[roh]

Depends on your school. At my college there were about 20-25 in AS and roughly between 15-20 at A2.

They're certainly smaller than most equivalent classes at GCSE, where I remember having close to 40 in some classes.

[Rarrgh]

Depends on the subject, the year your in, the interests your peers have it is different for every year, every school and every subject.

My year had around 12 people in physics and then the year after us only had 4...
But in both years we both had 2 packed psychology classes around 20-30 in each class.

So it just depends.

[Agenda Suicide]

It really depends. There usually tends to be less, but it's not always the case.

You'll find that your class size slowly shrinks after the first set of January exams (When people get fails, when people give in afte rgetting crap grades etc) and in A2 for a not so popular subject the classes are smaller.

[WillowSummers]

Depends on the subject: in French, there's two of us, in physics, around 25.

[Jessica_94]

hmm average in my classes is around 20

[beckycat]

In the case of my school, there are typically 15-20 students in each AS class. But this number tends to drop slightly by A2.

[mishmash67]

for me physics 3 people, maths 10 people and geography 9 people last year for AS it was double that

[cesca42]

Definitely smaller than GCSE for me. At GCSE there were usually around 30 in a class (with a few exceptions- there were only 11 of us in my science!) but at A-Level I usually have 10-15 people in each class.

It does depend on timetabling though- in my economics class there are 11 people, but in my friend's economics class there are only 6.

[Kasarna]

If your studying sciences or maths class sizes tend to be fairly small with approx max 15 people at AS and even less at A2. For example my chemistry class had 12 people in AS and now there are only 5 of us left in the class. Other subjects like Psychology, Geography, Sociology e.t.c tend to have large class sizes.

[lettucesoap]

theres only 3 people in my sisters A2 politics class.
there's only 1 person taking german A2 at my school & my german teacher was saying how awkward it sometimes gets for her & the one pupil

[Caitykinss]

For A2, there are 6 in my Music class, 8 in English Lit (Although there's another class of around 8), 9 in Theatre Studies and 10 in ICT (Again there is another class of about 10). Each of these dropped about 3 people from AS.

[buildalegohouse]

Wow, I guess at my school, we're all loners
So last year:
English lit- 11
Geography- 4
History- 8

THIS YEAR:
-English lit- 7
Geography- 2 (awkwarrrddd)
History- 3




But I guess it depends which school and subjects. Some are more popular than others. The sport science course for example here, has around 35 people.

[KKKKatie]

completely depends on subject and school i'd say in my chemistry class there was 30 and then in music there was only 3 of us and the othewr 2 rarely showed up so was usually just me!

[AtomicMan]

Normally around 20ish people.

[(:Becca(:]

There were about 10 people in all of my A level classes, colleges tend to have more than sixth forms I find.

[beccaa:)]

there was around 20 in my AS classes, this has dropped for A2 depends on the college i guess

[EloiseStar]

I guess it's dependant on the popularity of the subject and how big your school/college is.

There are 300 people in my sixth-form and in my AS Maths class there were 25 people and yet there was 8 people in my English Literature class.

[alexsasg]

They're meant to be smaller than GCSE classes but obviously it depends on the space that the school has and how many people want to do the subject. Last year I had 20 people in my Spanish class (WAY too many, but they couldn't split it into 2 classes) and 24 in my Sociology class, which was the largest class in the Sixth Form. I know my school aims to have no more than 20 in a class but sometimes it's just not possible.