Typical Day of a Year 12 (Lower Sixth) pupil?

[May vary depending upon examination board and school]

1. I'll answer this at the end.

2. None. You select all your subject, and you have to do atleast 3.

3. Again, it's your choice, which subjects you study. It's normal to study 4-5 subjects.

4.

Tests : Every week

Assignments: Every lesson, to be handed in next week.

Essays: A LOT! Most of your work is writing essays about stuff. It's an assignment. Needs to be handed in next week. You also get essays as part of tests and you have to write like heck to get it done on time.

5. Only for lnaguage exams.

6. Yes, they do!

Additional details:

Sixth-formers are referredf to upper school, and they had extra responsibilites over lower school students. Head Boys were in charge of arranging school events, year books, and keeping prefects in check.

Prefects were in charge of making sure that lower school students misbehave in the playground or outside school. They were allowed to hand out punishments. Some, like me, abused the power and had their prefect privileges revoked.

Upper school students also had to assist the teachers. They could be asked to help mark tests, or to take care of a class while the teacher attended to some other work.

In our school, we were asked to assist primary school teachers, That was a lot of fun because they seemed to be fascinated by you, and asked you all sort of questions about 'did you hate math','don't you hate school','did you fail your first exam'

Upper school students had free periods where they could sit in the common room and chit-chat, play cards, sleep. They were also allowed to wander the corridors during this time, or to go to the playground and play games of football basketball, swimming.

There was also a quiet study room equipped with computers for students who wanted to work on assignments during their free periods.

Upper school students tended to be rowdy, daring, and care-free because these are their last years in school. Some however were keen to study hard to get into a good uni

DAILY ROUTINE

7:50 Registration. Late duty(get down the names of all students who came late to class. This was only on days assigned to you, and it was only for prefects)

8:00-12 lessons. Sit, stare at the teacher, make sure your smart friend is writing notes. Plan to do something silly. Do it. Laugh. Get called immature by the teacher. simmer down. be bored again. fall asleep.

12:00; Recess: Patrol the playground, and make sure no one's bullying (you only did this on days when you had playground-duty, and this was only for prefects).

1:00-300: Lessons

Free Period: Play cards, copy assignments, do impressions of teachers, make yourself a snack, sit around and talk. e.t.c

i have just finished (well a couple of months ago) my first year at sixth form.

typical day .... would vary a lot between SFs, mine is start at 8:45, have 2 lessons (hour each) have break (20 mins), have another lesson, , have lunch (1 hour) , have two more lessons, then end of day. i do get a few free lesons though but not as many as year 13, most people sit in the common room, but on the run up to exams a lot of people might revise/study.

there are no compulsory subjects to my knowledge in this year but a few of my friends at another sixth form had to do general studies this year. not even all colleges/SFs make you do that.

optional subjects: maths, english, chemistry, physics, biology, art, design and tech, psychology, sociology, most languages (commonly french, spannish, german, japanese), history, geography, philosophy, RE, anything really. commonly 4 AS and 3 A-level.

most subjects now are modular (january and may/june exams) apart from the 'arts' so like english geography etc. anything regarded as a science is modular eg maths, psychology, physics etc. there are not so many essays in the 'sciences' but a lot in the 'arts'. weekly tests are uncommon, maybe monthly tests in languages but not in everything else. writing tests are common in english, languages, biology and psychology. these do not count towards your ultimate grades though, they are wholy determined by your exams. the 'tests' are just there to keep you on track.

oral exams for languages only GCSE and GCE/A-level

i refer to it as sixth form and whilst there i would say i am in year twelve/first year, but i would probably say most people would call it college. i think these days a SF is when it is part of a secondary and/or primary school (5-18). and a college is just from 16-18.

you get prefects towards the end of year 12 when year 13 has finished, they would do simple jobs like lunch duty for lower down the school or make sure that people are not in places they are not allowed. Head boy/girl may do the occasional assembly, and organise a few events throughout the year.

hope i helped

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