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Doing level 2 course while working full time?

Will this affect my studying and is it possible to do good in exams while working full time?

Are level 2 courses easy or same as A level?

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Original post by Sufyl

Will this affect my studying and is it possible to do good in exams while working full time?

Are level 2 courses easy or same as A level?

A Level 2 is GCSE equivalent.
To get an idea of workload take attending full time secondary school to be about the same as working full time (40hr weeks) (shorter days but homework etc). If we say a fairly reasonable workload is taking 8 GCSEs, a student would spend five hours per week on each subject for two or three years.
Can you make that time commitment outside your work hours? If you aren't attending in person classes will that make it harder to understand the subject meaning you have to work more? Are you happy to learn the content over two or three years or do you want it done in a year, because that would obviously then take more time per week.

Are you set on a lvl 2? If you already have a GCSE in or similar to whatever course you're thinking of a lvl 3 (A level equiv.) might be better.