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Can I do my A-levels at home, online?

I have wanted to be home-schooled for a very long time. I suffer from M.E/C.F.S which has made me have a really bad immune system. So getting up for school is really hard and I am ill a lot of the time. I have missed a lot of school.

I have my GCSEs in 3 weeks and after that I really want to take my A-levels at home. If I stay at Sixth form I’ll be taking…
Photography
Media
Sociology or Psychology
English Lit or Lang

I have a few questions:
Am I able to study these subjects at home, online?

Do I have to pay? If so what kind of price am I looking at? Is there any way of doing them for free?

Will I still be able to get into UNI if I get home-schooled for A-levels?

Would I go into my school and sit the exams?

Do you think homeschooling would be best for my situation?

Sorry for SO many questions.

Thank you in advance!

Q. Am I able to study these subjects at home?
A. It’s definitely possible to do Sociology, Psychology and English A Levels online.

To be honest with you I’ve never heard of anyone offering A Levels in Photography or Media to homeschoolers. That doesn’t mean you can’t do them independently at home – it doesn’t even mean there isn’t someone out there doing them online – just that I’ve never come across anyone offering A Levels in those particular subjects to external (not in school) candidates.

Q. Do I have to pay?
A. Yes.

Q. If so what kind of price am I looking at?
A. Current prices go from £740 per subject if you do them over two years with North Star, up to £1,250 per A Level (£1,495 for each combined AS and A2 course) offered online by Bright Futures.

North Star @ http://www.northstaruk.org/courses/a-levels.html
Bright Futures @ http://www.brightfuturesonline.co.uk/default.asp?ContentID=23

Bright Futures includes the cost of textbooks and exam fees in their prices, North Star doesn’t, so you’d have to budget for those things in addition to the above fees.

You should also probably be aware that North Star is a Christian company, altho. I’m not sure how much that would impact on their A Level courses.

You could also do A Levels at home through correspondence, rather than online. For that Oxford Homeschooling charge £425 per subject and the National Extension College charge £397 for each subject.

Oxford @ http://www.oxfordhomeschooling.co.uk/Alevel/ALevelHomeSchooling.htm
NEC @ http://www.nec.ac.uk/courses/category-browse?category_id=3305

Q. Is there any way of doing them for free?
A. Not at home, no.

You can do them pretty cheaply though if you go it alone; download the relevant syllabuses for free from the web, then use the web, library, second hand books and so on for study. That way your main expense will be the cost of exam fees (currently around £200 for each A Level).

Q. Will I still be able to get into UNI if I get home-schooled for A-levels?
A. Absolutely.

Your A Levels will be the exact same A Levels that you would have got by going to school. Same syllabuses; same exam boards; graded in exactly the same way to the exact same criteria as all other A Level candidates, be they from state schools, private schools, colleges, distance education, correspondence schools or adult education.

I’d definitely second Cathrl69′s note of caution though; many unis do not recognise A Levels in subjects such as Psychology, Sociology, Photography and Media (the so-called ‘soft subjects’).

It depends where you want to go and what you want to do – if you’re planning to go to one of the creative arts unis and do something ‘arty’ your current choice of subjects may work. I’d seriously urge you to check if you’ve got any thoughts of going to a ‘proper’ uni though, or you could easily spend heaps of time, effort and money getting four A levels only for the uni you want to go to to turn round and say that as far as they’re concerned you’ve only got one A Level (English).

Q. Would I go into my school and sit the exams?
A. Possibly. You’ll have to go into a school or college or more rarely, if you live near London, a dedicated exam centre but it won’t necessarily be the school you go to now though.

You’d need to find a school or college that is registered with the exam board you’re going with, and arrange to sit your exams alongside their own students. A lot of home educated kids find it’s heaps easier to arrange to sit their exams at private schools esp. those private schools that have charitable status.

Q. Do you think homeschooling would be best for my situation?
A. Absolutely (but then I’m biased!).

P.S. You should not need any legal advice in order to be home educated (‘homeschooled’) as you’ll presumably be beyond the school leaving age anyway; and therefore you’ll be free to pick up or drop any further education as and when you want, be it at home, sixth form, college, or education got in any other way.

Incidentally, AQA, the link provided by kbrigden, is just an exam board, nothing more than that. They are *not* responsible for A Levels in the UK. AQA is simply one of the six British exam boards that you can choose for your A Levels, and as such they are responsible only for their own courses. As well as AQA there is also OCR, CIE, Edexcel, WJEC and CCEA. Look through all their syllabuses and then take your pick.

(Most homeschoolers go with CIE (Cambridge) though as their courses are the easiest to organise from home, http://www.cie.org.uk/qualifications/academic/uppersec/alevel ).

If you want more information – and unbiased information at that – about A Levels in general, rather than one exam board’s offerings to the detriment of every other awarding authority’s A Levels, try the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA) @ http://www.qcda.gov.uk/qualifications/27.aspx

The QCDA website also has links to most of the individual, A Level awarding, exam boards.

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