6th Form at school

patrickstar | 23:01 Sat 18th Jul 2009 | Jobs & Education

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Now school years in senior school now range from years
7-11 why do the still have 6th Form? Shudnt it be 12th Form?

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coccinelle

Logically, yes. But like everything it'll take another 10 years before they change it and by that time 7-11 might have changed too. I'd just say, 1st year at college.

froggequene

It's a throw back to an older system.

The school system didn't always run from Year 1 to 13. In the older system, when you went to secondary school you went into the First Form & did your O Levels (now GCSEs) in Fifth Form. If you stayed on to do A Levels you went into the Sixth Form, which was divided into Lower & Upper Sixth Form to cover the two years.

The system was only changed to run from Year 1 to 13 in the 1990s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_form

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