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Depending on your sixth form/sixth form college you may have the choice to study A levels on their own or alongside Applied General Qualifications e.g BTECs. Further Education Colleges will offer Applied General Qualifications and also the new T Levels.
A Levels are academic and general qualifications and Applied General Qualifications are courses that are about a vocational area and more practical. T Levels are technical qualifications, equivalent to 3 A Levels that combine classroom study and work placements and train you to do a job.
They are:
- Equivalent to each other in terms of grading for example an A Level grade A is equivalent to a BTEC Distinction grade.
- You can gain UCAS tariff points and progress on to university study with either A Levels, Applied General Qualifications or T Levels.
The differences:
A Levels
- Over 300,000 young people chose to do A Levels last year.
- You usually take 3 or 4 different A Level subjects [or you can do one or two alongside an Applied Genera...
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