Any mature students on here who have gone back to study A-levels??

Hey! I was thinking of doing 2 A-levels in one year in September! I'l be 21 and it's so good to see that I'm not the only one doing this, pheeww! When you self teach do you ever get bored or lonely? I am worried that I won't get the opportunity to meet as many people as you would at a college or doing an access course...

Ahh yeah that makes sense. I want to do Biology and Geology and I wanted to do them in one year as I don't want to waste another year when I could be at University. I have been travelling and living abroad for the last few years, working and doing bits and bobs so it'll be weird coming back to the UK and staying in one place for a whole year! What did you study/ studying? Where did you study/ studying?

Ahh yeah that makes sense. I want to do Biology and Geology and I wanted to do them in one year as I don't want to waste another year when I could be at University. I have been travelling and living abroad for the last few years, working and doing bits and bobs so it'll be weird coming back to the UK and staying in one place for a whole year! What did you study/ studying? Where did you study/ studying?

Before you go any further, you need to check whether your travelling affects your entitlement to student finance. To qualify for a SFE student loan, you need to have been 'ordinarily resident' in the UK for the previous 3 years. If this is the case, you will probably be better off getting at least a part-time job, and taking two or three years to do your A levels.

http://media.slc.co.uk/sfe/1516/ft/sfe_how_paid_assessed_guide_1516_d.pdf

I'm currently studying AS-level Maths and Biology (exams start in a week). If you're hoping to do 2 full A-levels in one year you need to make sure you don't have too many other commitments. If you're like me then you'll find it's probably safer to span AS and A2 over two years!

How did you manage to home-study Biology? I'm aware ISA/EMPAs are not part of new spec', but I still thought you had to have completed a certain about of practicals with a teacher to sign them off?

I want to do chemistry self-study, as the nearest college is 1.5 hours there and back, and I don't fancy that loss of time every week and costs. Hence, I'm interested how you're managing to home-study a science subject. Thanks.

Good on ya!!! I'm 23 years old. I picked up AS-level Maths and Bio (new 2015 spec) just before christmas and am now sitting exams. My first Maths exam is tomorrow!! Eeek

For Biology I'm not doing any of the practicals. With the new spec, doing the practicals doesn't add to your overall grade. But it'll show that I haven't done them. I literally bought the endorsed textbooks and read through all of it whilst taking notes and following the specification closely. Then I entered myself in as an external candidate at a near by school.

26, A Levels in humanities/social science subjects, applied for law.

Absolutely hated doing English Lit & Lang - the coursework is AWFUL.
History - my exam board is tricky and marked down everyone's coursework.

If you're going to do social sciences/history for A-levels, think you're better off doing sociology, history, politics, psychology, or English Literature (but not Lit & Lang).

Wow!! Good on you!! It just goes to show age is just a number! You're never too old to study!

I've been thinking about going back into education to train as a neuroscientist for a little while. Think I'm actually going to go for it and start A-Levels, though not until 2017; I'll be 26 when I start! Going to keep working until then to try and save up as much as possible so I can study full-time at college, and keep just a little bar work/saturday job on the side.

Super nervous about the whole idea and also super excited, I really want the next year to hurry up!