Tiffin Girls Sixth Form 2025 External Applicants

Hi guys!
I’m currently in year 11 and am thinking of trying to get into tiffins girls for sixth form. (Im pretty sure you can go on results day and show your GCSE grades and they may/may not make you an offer.) I was (1) wondering what kind of grades you have to achieve to have a reasonable chance of getting in. (2) how good the teaching actually is, (3) how popular Maths, Spanish and History are as they would probably be my chosen A - Levels and (4) if it’s easy or not to make friends and how obsessed people are with their grades.
Thank you

Hi, I go to tgs and have done so since year 7 (I’m year 12 rn)
1) the minimum entry requirements are 4 6s and 4 7s including 7s in your a level options
2) I personally really like the teachers and the teaching there. I only take history of those three subjects but the teachers clearly love their subjects and love answering questions, no matter how off topic they are. I haven’t personally taken Spanish since y9 but the Spanish teachers are quite intense and I would say that they do put a lot of pressure on students but it shows in the results- I’m pretty sure for the past few years everyone got a* in Spanish.
3) Maths is very, very popular. I would say 3/4 if not more of the year take maths
Spanish in my year is about 10 I think
History is about 30 and there are 2 classes
The combination of maths history Spanish isn’t unknown, off the top of my head I know 2 people doing it, one of whom is actually a close friend.
I think it would be good to know that tgs requires y12s to take a 4th subject in y12 and you drop it at Easter or after end of years (unless you get special permission to drop it early but that’s very rare)
4) I personally find the people there really nice, ofc I’m not an external but it seems to me that all the externals made friends pretty quickly.
In terms of who you’ll find here, I’d say it’s definitely a mixture. There are some people who are, in your words ‘obsessed’ with grades (me being a prime example lol) but I definitely consider myself to be in a minority, the people here are really chill and good fun and it’s not all about grades despite what the schools reputation may suggest.
If you have any more questions about tgs, message me and I’d love to answer!!!

Unless you take route 2 maths (maths + further maths at year 12) in which you get 2 frees, most people have 5. Our days are structured into 5 hour long lessons a day so 25 period a week in which you’d have 16 lessons, 5 frees, 1 pastoral (pshe type lesson) 1 Tuesday Lecture program where each week a teacher gives a uni style lecture on a topic of their interest outside the curriculum, 1 Higher Education (although after the first half term attendance is optional and therefore can be treated as an extra free) and 1 PE.
In y 13, there is no more lecture program or HE so it’s 11 frees (we still have to do pe worst luck)
Our school makes it compulsory to drop a fourth subject around Easter. You can drop it at the end of the spring term or any time until after end of years as some people choose the subject with the lowest grade to drop if they can’t decide. If you’re taking further maths (route 2 becomes maths + further maths in y13) then you do take 4 but most people will take three. I think around 130-150 people take maths every year while around 20-30 take maths + further maths.

Hi, I go to tgs and have done so since year 7 (I’m year 12 rn)
1) the minimum entry requirements are 4 6s and 4 7s including 7s in your a level options
2) I personally really like the teachers and the teaching there. I only take history of those three subjects but the teachers clearly love their subjects and love answering questions, no matter how off topic they are. I haven’t personally taken Spanish since y9 but the Spanish teachers are quite intense and I would say that they do put a lot of pressure on students but it shows in the results- I’m pretty sure for the past few years everyone got a* in Spanish.
3) Maths is very, very popular. I would say 3/4 if not more of the year take maths
Spanish in my year is about 10 I think
History is about 30 and there are 2 classes
The combination of maths history Spanish isn’t unknown, off the top of my head I know 2 people doing it, one of whom is actually a close friend.
I think it would be good to know that tgs requires y12s to take a 4th subject in y12 and you drop it at Easter or after end of years (unless you get special permission to drop it early but that’s very rare)
4) I personally find the people there really nice, ofc I’m not an external but it seems to me that all the externals made friends pretty quickly.
In terms of who you’ll find here, I’d say it’s definitely a mixture. There are some people who are, in your words ‘obsessed’ with grades (me being a prime example lol) but I definitely consider myself to be in a minority, the people here are really chill and good fun and it’s not all about grades despite what the schools reputation may suggest.
If you have any more questions about tgs, message me and I’d love to answer!!!

I personally haven’t gotten fully to the uni application process but already they give A LOT of help. We have HE every week (higher Ed) where we’re told how to choose a course, uni, student finance and then it becomes optional when outside speakers come in to explain what they did at uni and their current jobs. Then when the unis application process starts, your personal statement has to go through like 3 different people, you’re given a subject advisor based on what course you want to do. Currently, they send out competitions at unis and outreach programmes ALL THE TIME and I’ve signed up to quite a lot of them, so I really like that about the school. I would say that they are quite intense about it, like reminding us to do things abt personal statements and stuff like that and I personally find it a bit stressful (tho the teachers have been telling me that I’m already doing enough/ too much and I’m the exception to needing to be told to do supercurriculars), but that aside the school is really good at it.

Thanks. How is the quality of teaching? I think my school gets good grades because of pressure from students rather than good teaching.

Thanks. How is the quality of teaching? I think my school gets good grades because of pressure from students rather than good teaching.

Thanks. How is the quality of teaching? I think my school gets good grades because of pressure from students rather than good teaching.

Also, what subjects are you thinking on taking?

Hi, I was wondering what grades external applicants achieved in general. Thanks

Hi, I was wondering what grades external applicants achieved in general. Thanks

Hi, I go to tgs and have done so since year 7 (I’m year 12 rn)
1) the minimum entry requirements are 4 6s and 4 7s including 7s in your a level options
2) I personally really like the teachers and the teaching there. I only take history of those three subjects but the teachers clearly love their subjects and love answering questions, no matter how off topic they are. I haven’t personally taken Spanish since y9 but the Spanish teachers are quite intense and I would say that they do put a lot of pressure on students but it shows in the results- I’m pretty sure for the past few years everyone got a* in Spanish.
3) Maths is very, very popular. I would say 3/4 if not more of the year take maths
Spanish in my year is about 10 I think
History is about 30 and there are 2 classes
The combination of maths history Spanish isn’t unknown, off the top of my head I know 2 people doing it, one of whom is actually a close friend.
I think it would be good to know that tgs requires y12s to take a 4th subject in y12 and you drop it at Easter or after end of years (unless you get special permission to drop it early but that’s very rare)
4) I personally find the people there really nice, ofc I’m not an external but it seems to me that all the externals made friends pretty quickly.
In terms of who you’ll find here, I’d say it’s definitely a mixture. There are some people who are, in your words ‘obsessed’ with grades (me being a prime example lol) but I definitely consider myself to be in a minority, the people here are really chill and good fun and it’s not all about grades despite what the schools reputation may suggest.
If you have any more questions about tgs, message me and I’d love to answer!!!

getting taco for spanish is very intense according to my friends

taco 😭

omg i used to go tgs too im also in year 12 do i know u perchance??????????