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Anyone else here done any A-levels?

I got my AS-level results yesturday and got 4 As, yeeeeeyy!!!

And my brother got his 3 As to match his offer at Oxford so he'll be off there after his gap year. God, i wish i knew where i was going... don't we all.

What did everyone else get?

By Raindrops (Raindrops) on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 12:05 am: Edit

=) You're talking about the English system, I believe.

A-level Lit, Physics, Math, and Chem: A's.
o-level Physics: B.

I guess I was having a bad day with O-levels. ^^;

By Clickspring (Clickspring) on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 12:08 am: Edit

So, does any one care to explain the A/O level system to an ignorant American?

By Emma (Emma) on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 09:26 am: Edit

hehehe i find it so amusing how everyone still calls them o-levels, that what my parents call them!

Clickspring, there have been lots of good explanations if you search for it, but to give you an overview, here grades 9-10 you study for your GCSEs (you do about 9 of them - grades A* to unmarkable)and you take them may/june of grade 10 (each one has about 2-3 exams).

You then do AS-levels in grade 11 (you do about 4). You can either use them as an individual exam, or continue to do the full A-level with you do in grade 12. (You generally do 4 AS-levels, drop one, and continue with 3, so your end result would be 1 AS-level and 3 A-levels)

A full A-level has six 'modules', and an AS-level is the first 3 modules.

Hope that helped!

By Kkhimji (Kkhimji) on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 09:36 am: Edit

got 3 A's in economics, computing, maths
got a c in chemistry

do us colleges ask for a level u drop?

By Emma (Emma) on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 09:45 am: Edit

I assume (but this is a guess) that they would if like me that is all you're doing, but i dont see any reason why you should tell them if you're doing them as extras under another educational system.

By Raindrops (Raindrops) on Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 12:08 am: Edit

Hmm, Emma, in Belize we take both A and O (I'm sticking with it =P) levels after we get our associate degrees. I just took them for fun, and they weren't legitimate. Nice to hear that they are actually supposed to be taked during high school years.

By Greghornphs (Greghornphs) on Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 12:49 am: Edit

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By H0neymoon (H0neymoon) on Tuesday, December 02, 2003 - 07:43 pm: Edit

GCSE- three A*'s, six A's, two B's
A Levels- one A, two Bs