A-Level exam boards

I’ve applied to a few sixth forms and I’m thinking of leaving my school as I feel like I need to leave that environment. However, some of the subjects I’m interested in like English Literature have different exam boards to what I’ve done in school. I know the way you write in A-Level will be different but I just want to know if I’ll find it harder as it is a different exam board.

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DerDracologe

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I dont think this will matter too much as the style of questions will change anyway. The one thing id consider with different exam boards for subjects like English is what texts are studied (same for history with different topics as this can vary a huge amount).
I did AQA for Biology at gcse and now do OCR (just finished term 1 of year 12) and im working at an A* cos the structures aren’t too different for me cos its not an essay but I haven’t seen a significant difference between aqa and ocr. For maths i did edexcel GCSE and OCR add maths and now I do OCR a level- theres a bigger difference here because in tests and homework now we have a separate question sheet and some lined paper for answers but that would be change regardless of the gcse exam board done.