Top Tips for Choosing Your Post 16 Courses
Unsure how many to choose? – Where do you fit in this list?
| GCSE Predictions | Number of A Levels to Study |
| Grades 9-8 | Choose four 2 year courses |
| Mostly 9-7 | Choose three or four 2 year courses |
| Mostly 9-5 | Choose three 2 year courses |
| Mostly 7-4 | Choose three 2 year courses |
| Mostly 4-1 | Level 3 may not be the best choice this September, not yet or you may need to retake English and Maths alongside two courses building to three in your third year |
Most of you are choosing three subjects only – The choice is more important than ever. You will study them for two years with no external exams half way through – only at the end of the course.
Only students predicted to achieve grades 9-8 at GCSE are advised to opt for four subjects.
Understand Why A Levels Are So Important – A Global Gold Standard
Oaklands Sixth Form has an exemplary record in helping you get into top universities
The Russell Group (Level 9 -5 at GCSE and A*-B at A Level) are the UK’s highest performing universities and top employers approach them to recruit graduates:
| University of Birmingham | London School of Economics |
| University of Bristol | University of Manchester |
| University of Cambridge | Newcastle University |
| Cardiff University | University of Nottingham |
| Durham University | University of Oxford |
| University of Edinburgh | Queen Mary University of London |
| University of Exeter | Queen’s University Belfast |
| University of Glasgow | University of Sheffield |
| Imperial College London | University of Southampton |
| King’s College London | University College London |
| University of Leeds | University of Warwick |
| University of Liverpool | University of York |
