Live Life Team
Once you reach year 11 you will be asked to make more choices about your future, so being aware of them now is no bad thing, as you will have at least some idea of where you are going. One of the most common choices is to stay at school if they have a sixth-form or transfer to a local college if they don’t, to do ‘A’ levels.
This is the choice you would most likely be making if you can see yourself going on to university, as this tends to be the normal route. Universities have a minimum set of criteria that they will apply if you are college leaver age when you apply. Each course will have a minimum entry requirement that you will need to meet before the university will even consider you and then you will be offered a conditional place. This means you either have to get certain A level grades and then attend interview to be considered or an unconditional place, where getting A level grades (normally higher grades) will guarantee you a place, with no further selection process to go through.
‘A’ levels tend to be offered in the academic subjects and are a stage higher. They are more challenging than the work you will do at GCSE level, so it is a good idea to choose subjects that you get good grades in, just to be sure that you will be able to cope with the jump in level.
