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[OT] Attn UK People: O- and A-Levels?
Jeanne Hedge wrote
This is mainly for UK people, but answers from anyone who can further my education are welcome. I was watching the movie "Bend It Like Beckham" on TV last night. There's a scene where one of the high school girls, whose family wants her to study law, gets the results of her "A-Levels". Her father reads the results and says something like "B.L.L.B. Good, you'll make a fine solicitor." I've heard of "O-Levels" before, but not "A-Levels". I thought "O" was a series of exams you take that are used as part of the undergraduate university admission process, similar to the SAT or ACT exams in the US. From what I saw in the movie, obviously this isn't right. If "A" is used in the undergrad admission process, what are "O" used for? Is B.L.L.B. on "A-Levels" a good score? O and A levels are nothing to do with University. They are exams you take at school - probably superseded by something else these days. Dependent on ability, type of school, and so on, people take anything between three and twelve different subjects at O level when aged something around 15, and two or three subjects at A level when aged something around 17. I got 11 passes and a fail in O level, though two of the subjects I took I did a year later for fun. At A level I got A1, A, A, which while pretty good could have been better: in my day S level was an additional paper with A level, but you were only allowed to take two. As all the other mathematicians in my school did, we took S level in two Maths subjects and not Physics: one of the Maths papers was incredibly difficult, the Physics was very easy. The 1 of A1 refers to the S level: the best I could have got would be A1, A1, A. Then things went downhill! -- David Stevenson Storypage: http://blakjak.com/sty_menu.htm Liverpool, England, UK Emails welcome Nanki Poo: SI O+W B 11 Y L+ W++ C+ I T+ A- E H++ V- F Q P+ B+ PA+ PL SC Minke: SI W+Cp B 2 Y L W+ C++ I T A- E H++ V++ F- Q- P B PA+ PL+ SC- |
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Jeanne Hedge wrote
This is mainly for UK people, but answers from anyone who can further my education are welcome. I was watching the movie "Bend It Like Beckham" on TV last night. There's a scene where one of the high school girls, whose family wants her to study law, gets the results of her "A-Levels". Her father reads the results and says something like "B.L.L.B. Good, you'll make a fine solicitor." I've heard of "O-Levels" before, but not "A-Levels". I thought "O" was a series of exams you take that are used as part of the undergraduate university admission process, similar to the SAT or ACT exams in the US. From what I saw in the movie, obviously this isn't right. If "A" is used in the undergrad admission process, what are "O" used for? Is B.L.L.B. on "A-Levels" a good score? O and A levels are nothing to do with University. They are exams you take at school - probably superseded by something else these days. Dependent on ability, type of school, and so on, people take anything between three and twelve different subjects at O level when aged something around 15, and two or three subjects at A level when aged something around 17. I got 11 passes and a fail in O level, though two of the subjects I took I did a year later for fun. At A level I got A1, A, A, which while pretty good could have been better: in my day S level was an additional paper with A level, but you were only allowed to take two. As all the other mathematicians in my school did, we took S level in two Maths subjects and not Physics: one of the Maths papers was incredibly difficult, the Physics was very easy. The 1 of A1 refers to the S level: the best I could have got would be A1, A1, A. Then things went downhill! -- David Stevenson Storypage: http://blakjak.com/sty_menu.htm Liverpool, England, UK Emails welcome Nanki Poo: SI O+W B 11 Y L+ W++ C+ I T+ A- E H++ V- F Q P+ B+ PA+ PL SC Minke: SI W+Cp B 2 Y L W+ C++ I T A- E H++ V++ F- Q- P B PA+ PL+ SC- |
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Jeanne Hedge wrote
This is mainly for UK people, but answers from anyone who can further my education are welcome. I was watching the movie "Bend It Like Beckham" on TV last night. There's a scene where one of the high school girls, whose family wants her to study law, gets the results of her "A-Levels". Her father reads the results and says something like "B.L.L.B. Good, you'll make a fine solicitor." I've heard of "O-Levels" before, but not "A-Levels". I thought "O" was a series of exams you take that are used as part of the undergraduate university admission process, similar to the SAT or ACT exams in the US. From what I saw in the movie, obviously this isn't right. If "A" is used in the undergrad admission process, what are "O" used for? Is B.L.L.B. on "A-Levels" a good score? O and A levels are nothing to do with University. They are exams you take at school - probably superseded by something else these days. Dependent on ability, type of school, and so on, people take anything between three and twelve different subjects at O level when aged something around 15, and two or three subjects at A level when aged something around 17. I got 11 passes and a fail in O level, though two of the subjects I took I did a year later for fun. At A level I got A1, A, A, which while pretty good could have been better: in my day S level was an additional paper with A level, but you were only allowed to take two. As all the other mathematicians in my school did, we took S level in two Maths subjects and not Physics: one of the Maths papers was incredibly difficult, the Physics was very easy. The 1 of A1 refers to the S level: the best I could have got would be A1, A1, A. Then things went downhill! -- David Stevenson Storypage: http://blakjak.com/sty_menu.htm Liverpool, England, UK Emails welcome Nanki Poo: SI O+W B 11 Y L+ W++ C+ I T+ A- E H++ V- F Q P+ B+ PA+ PL SC Minke: SI W+Cp B 2 Y L W+ C++ I T A- E H++ V++ F- Q- P B PA+ PL+ SC- |
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