Are there any good online a-levels for EU students?

Hello! I am interested in studying A-levels for university applications, but in my country (Poland) there are no affordable in person options, so I'm currently looking for an online substitute. I'm currently studying for my iGCSE's on my own and would like to continue within the humanities sciences. So far as I looked most online schools turn out either as a scam or with examination centres in Britain and that is not an option for me. Does anybody know any reliable online schools with examination centres within the EU?

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MindMax2000

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Original post by Jestercatzz

The examination centres would depend on the individual exam boards, and you are not allowed to pick a centre that's not approved by the exam boards. If you do so, you won't be able to have your results and qualifications certified (essential for uni applications and to verify your results). You would encounter this problem if you are doing iGCSEs yourself as you say you are.

You typically have 3 to choose from (from what I know) for international A Levels (what you actually want instead of UK A Levels):
CAIE - the most widely popular
Edexcel - the second most popular
OxfordAQA - unfortunately I can't find much about

In terms of finding exam centres, there are 16 based in Poland so if you can travel to them you're fine:
https://www.cambridgeinternational.org/why-choose-us/find-a-cambridge-school/?Location=Poland

There are 5 for EdExcel:
https://qualifications.pearson.com/en/support/support-topics/understanding-our-qualifications/find-a-pearson-centre.html?Country=Poland

I don't know your location, so it's difficult to say what's suitable.

In terms of courses, I don't think there are any that I could recommend for international A Levels, because I haven't done them myself. However, if you are looking for online courses, I would recommend googling for the following keywords: "[subject] online international A Level course" - you should find a bunch.
Online courses such as these tend to cater to specific exam boards, so you would need to look through each course to check whether you are studying for the specific exam board that you want. Edexcel tend to be popular as online A Level courses though.

I am not entirely sure whereabouts you intend to study for university, so you would need to check what the specific entry requirements are for individual degrees that you intend to do.
If the universities outside of the UK have similar requirements to those in the UK, you would quickly find out that there are required subjects for specific degrees depending on what you choose to study. For example, you would need A Level Maths in order to study Computer Science, Maths, Physics, Engineering, Finance, and Economics.

If required subjects apply, then the following humanities subjects are likely to be relevant should you choose to do a degree related to the A Level subject:

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Geography

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History

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Ancient civilisations

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Languages: European languages and Classical languages e.g. Latin, Ancient Greek

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Literature

Should you choose to do a humanities based degree, then beware of the above. Do note, the humanities subjects aren't required across disciplines as much as STEM subjects e.g. Geography is only really required for geography subjects (but possibly geology), history is only required for history degrees, French is only required for joint French degrees.

The other thing that you should bear in mind of doing subjects privately is that if there is any coursework or involve examination that doesn't just involve you sitting, reading, and writing (e.g. listening, speaking components in language A Levels), you would need to find an exam centre that can cater for the examination of coursework and those components of the exams (all usually at extra cost). You will need to check with the individual exam centre (i.e. the exam officer) to confirm this.