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I live in Sweden, although I'm half-English and used to live in England when I was younger. I am seriously thinking about going to sixth form and taking my A-levels in England, and everybody says that they're a big step up from GCSEs, but as I live in Sweden and haven't done any GCSEs that doesn't really tell me anything. My question to you is how difficult is sixth form really, what kind of things do you do? Is it a lot of homework or does it mainly focus on revising for your exams? Is it fun or is it mainly something you just have to get through so that you can go on to uni and/or a job in the future? The subjects I'm thinking about taking are Media studies, Photography, Psychology and Sociology, if that helps at all. Thanks a lot
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I live in Sweden, although I'm half-English and used to live in England when I was younger. I am seriously thinking about going to sixth form and taking my A-levels in England, and everybody says that they're a big step up from GCSEs, but as I live in Sweden and haven't done any GCSEs that doesn't really tell me anything. My question to you is how difficult is sixth form really, what kind of things do you do? Is it a lot of homework or does it mainly focus on revising for your exams? Is it fun or is it mainly something you just have to get through so that you can go on to uni and/or a job in the future? The subjects I'm thinking about taking are Media studies, Photography, Psychology and Sociology, if that helps at all. Thanks a lot
I live in Sweden, although I'm half-English and used to live in England when I was younger. I am seriously thinking about going to sixth form and taking my A-levels in England, and everybody says that they're a big step up from GCSEs, but as I live in Sweden and haven't done any GCSEs that doesn't really tell me anything. My question to you is how difficult is sixth form really, what kind of things do you do? Is it a lot of homework or does it mainly focus on revising for your exams? Is it fun or is it mainly something you just have to get through so that you can go on to uni and/or a job in the future? The subjects I'm thinking about taking are Media studies, Photography, Psychology and Sociology, if that helps at all. Thanks a lot
Yes, A Levels are fairly difficult, mostly I found because of how much content there is to learn for the exams. However, I also think this depends on what subjects you take. I did Biology, Maths, Chemistry and English and found Maths and the two sciences hard but English easy as that is the subject I've always done best in without much work.
As for homework, it depends on the college. The one I went to set regular homework, which a lot of the time involved questions from past papers. However, the college my siblings went to rarely set homework and expected you to find the past papers yourself and do them in your own time.
I found it fun personally, in terms of having a laugh with the friends I made. But at the same time, we were focused on getting good grades so we could go to the universities we wanted and helped each other out.
Hope this helped a little!
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I think that a levels are even more difficult than university, but that's just me
I mean, it's easier to ace a levels compared to uni, but that's not saying much, seeing as with the same work for both uni and a levels, you might get pretty poor grades in your a levels while getting an all right grade in university (nobody can "ace" university though)
I mean, it's easier to ace a levels compared to uni, but that's not saying much, seeing as with the same work for both uni and a levels, you might get pretty poor grades in your a levels while getting an all right grade in university (nobody can "ace" university though)
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I live in Sweden, although I'm half-English and used to live in England when I was younger. I am seriously thinking about going to sixth form and taking my A-levels in England, and everybody says that they're a big step up from GCSEs, but as I live in Sweden and haven't done any GCSEs that doesn't really tell me anything. My question to you is how difficult is sixth form really, what kind of things do you do? Is it a lot of homework or does it mainly focus on revising for your exams? Is it fun or is it mainly something you just have to get through so that you can go on to uni and/or a job in the future? The subjects I'm thinking about taking are Media studies, Photography, Psychology and Sociology, if that helps at all. Thanks a lot
I live in Sweden, although I'm half-English and used to live in England when I was younger. I am seriously thinking about going to sixth form and taking my A-levels in England, and everybody says that they're a big step up from GCSEs, but as I live in Sweden and haven't done any GCSEs that doesn't really tell me anything. My question to you is how difficult is sixth form really, what kind of things do you do? Is it a lot of homework or does it mainly focus on revising for your exams? Is it fun or is it mainly something you just have to get through so that you can go on to uni and/or a job in the future? The subjects I'm thinking about taking are Media studies, Photography, Psychology and Sociology, if that helps at all. Thanks a lot
Hope that helps!
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I live in Sweden, although I'm half-English and used to live in England when I was younger. I am seriously thinking about going to sixth form and taking my A-levels in England, and everybody says that they're a big step up from GCSEs, but as I live in Sweden and haven't done any GCSEs that doesn't really tell me anything. My question to you is how difficult is sixth form really, what kind of things do you do? Is it a lot of homework or does it mainly focus on revising for your exams? Is it fun or is it mainly something you just have to get through so that you can go on to uni and/or a job in the future? The subjects I'm thinking about taking are Media studies, Photography, Psychology and Sociology, if that helps at all. Thanks a lot
I live in Sweden, although I'm half-English and used to live in England when I was younger. I am seriously thinking about going to sixth form and taking my A-levels in England, and everybody says that they're a big step up from GCSEs, but as I live in Sweden and haven't done any GCSEs that doesn't really tell me anything. My question to you is how difficult is sixth form really, what kind of things do you do? Is it a lot of homework or does it mainly focus on revising for your exams? Is it fun or is it mainly something you just have to get through so that you can go on to uni and/or a job in the future? The subjects I'm thinking about taking are Media studies, Photography, Psychology and Sociology, if that helps at all. Thanks a lot
Psychology entirely depends on the board, I've heard that OCR is the best (and easiest) for it.
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