Alevel worries (class size)

LOL, does everyone on this thread go to a private/grammar school or was my school worse than the average state comprehensive?

I suppose it might have been my subject choices (sciences and mathematics) but I don't think I ever had an A Level class with fewer than 20 people in it (except perhaps mathematics in my final year -- a lot of people dropped like flies after AS ).

I go to an average state school. My largest class size atm is 13, the smallest is 8.

Which subjects do you do? I'm starting to think it might just have been the case that I took very popular subjects.

Hi. Just curious to see the smallest class sizes people are in and in what subjects. What is it like being in very small class sizes. This worries me because im worried that I may end up on my own in a class.Thanks 😀😀😀

I think there is a correlation between class size and results, the smaller the class size the better the results tend to be since the teacher's expertise is more concentrated at specific students and the students can receive better feedback.

Biology, Chemistry, politics and business.

The first two I have in common with you. Biology was very oversubscribed in my school because it was seen as the easiest science the science of choice for both people who wanted to study mainly sciences and people who wanted to take other subjects but were worried that they'd be seen as a soft set unless they took 'a science.' Accordingly, there were three biology classes in year 12 (fairly large ones), which then went down to two classes in year 13 because of the number of people who dropped it. Chemistry was similar but the effect was somewhat lessened by its reputation as a harder science.

Do you think chemistry is that much harder than biology?

Not that much harder. My opinion might not be representative because I took all the sciences and mathematics so I'm a pretty science-y guy anyway. But generally, yes, I found biology easier because a good percentage of it was simple factual recall,


whereas chemistry presented some nasty questions in the exams... xD

In retrospect though, I don't think chemistry deserves its reputation as the hardest science -- it's easy enough if you do your homework.

Until you get to redox on the AS... 😨😨😨😨

In my history class there are 5 people, 6 in politics and I have one-to-one tuition in economics, small class sizes are fine.