College vs Sixth form

Hey everyone,

I’m in year 10 and have been thinking about going to a sixth form or college for a levels. I was hoping for people to tell me about their experience in each and hopefully this will help me decide. Thanks for your help!

Hey everyone,

I’m in year 10 and have been thinking about going to a sixth form or college for a levels. I was hoping for people to tell me about their experience in each and hopefully this will help me decide. Thanks for your help!

Hey everyone,

I’m in year 10 and have been thinking about going to a sixth form or college for a levels. I was hoping for people to tell me about their experience in each and hopefully this will help me decide. Thanks for your help!

Best thing you can do is look at their websites/ go to their open days/ talk to current students at your local ones. It really depends on where you are, however I went to college and made some new friends and the support and lessons were fantastic, however at sixth form you may get more relations with your teachers and students in sixth form apparently become more chill. Either way both are fine as long as you get the a levels you need!

from my experience, i go to a sixth form currently (im in year 13) and my sixth form is really strict like we have to wear business wear, follow a bunch of rules etc probably because my sixth form is attached to a high school. i'd say the main difference between both is that you get more freedom at college but have to do more independent learning while sixthform theres a lot of help from teachers and restricted freedom.
overall i dont really mind either as long as im getting my a level grades

I go to a sixth form and do A levels, generally sixth form is a good idea if you're planning to go to uni, whereas colleges generally offer more vocational courses e.g.BTECs and NVQs in health + social care, hair + beauty, plumbing etc so might be a good plan if you know what you want to do and want to get straight into employment. I will say sixth form is very different to being in the lower school (I stayed on at my school from yr7 to sixth form), e.g relationships with teachers are better, they're less autocratic and tend to have more time for you, relationships with those in my year outside my friendship groups are better because everyone's split up more for A levels compared to GCSEs, relationships with younger years are different, e.g. I got the opportunity to coach lower school football teams and run a mental wellbeing club for the lower school, and you can hold positions of more responsibility, e.g. we had subject ambassadors and a student senior leadership team that reflected the senior leadership team of teachers. Some sixth forms also offer AS, EPQ, BTECs and IB so worth looking into various qualifications to see what might help you get into a career you like. My sixth fro is at a grammar school and it's an academy (which means it's funded by the local authority rather than the government proper I think) so I might have a different experience to others in sixth form but can always visit a few local sixth forms and colleges to scout them out and see what you like more.

College is the best way to go these days. I go sixth-form and it’s stressful and difficult for no reason. My brother however went the college route and has achieved two level 3 qualifications with distinctions which outweigh my A level Grades and are accepted by many Universities and Apprenticeships. College also gives you more free-time and less stress as results are based on coursework rather than old fashioned exams. Sixth-form in my opinion should only be for those who want to go into medical professions or degrees which cant be accessed through B-techs. Hope this helped..

Hey everyone,

I’m in year 10 and have been thinking about going to a sixth form or college for a levels. I was hoping for people to tell me about their experience in each and hopefully this will help me decide. Thanks for your help!