Online A Level Courses

In order to go on to university you will need to make an application via the University Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS).  We are able to help and we can provide an academic reference and predicted grades as long as;

• The student has done enough work
• We have been provided with sufficient notice

There is a fee to pay for this and you must apply within our deadline.

Full details full details can be found in our  academic reference policy.

Usually Oxford Home Schooling are happy to admit students for A Level if they have a minimum of 4 GCSEs at grade C and above. These would ideally include English and Maths and sometimes but not always a GCSE in the subject you wish to study.

Please be aware that some A Levels such as Sociology do not have any requirement for a GCSE in that subject and others have special entry requirements, these are shown on the individual subject information pages.

Most of Oxford Home Schooling’s A Level courses have a recommended accompanying textbook which students will need to obtain.

A level Study is designed to prepare students for the much more independent style of learning that they will encounter at university and degree level. Students will need to read widely around their subject in order to get top marks. As a result, our A level courses have both supporting texts and a recommended reading list to help you achieve a broader understanding of your subject.

By clicking on any of the book images on this website, you will be taken to the relevant page on Amazon’s website. Some courses also include access to online resources. Where this is the case, students will need to have internet access.

This does depend on the ability of the student and the grade that you wish to achieve. However, we suggest that as a guide students should allow for 700 hours of study per A level.

When you enrol on an A level with Oxford Home Schooling we will agree an examination date with you and help you calculate how many hours each week you will need to study in order to achieve your goal in the allotted time.

If, after you have started your studies, you realise you need more time, please get in touch and in most cases we can defer your examination date. A fee may be payable for this.

Yes, this is perfectly possible for most A levels, although it requires hard work and concentrated study to complete a course in one year.

Some of our A levels are more challenging than others and in some cases a year is not enough.

Those courses with Non-examination assessment (NEA) have a coursework project that must be completed by mid March of your examination year. The NEA project is worth 20% of final marks, it usually takes up much more time than students expect and in those subjects, the cut-off for enrolling is the 15th of September in the autumn before examination the following summer.

You will be sitting as a Private Candidate and you will need to find an exam centre that can help you.

We have an exam centre finder in the Student Hub on our website. It is a map which shows centres that can be relied on to offer our students an exam place, many of them also offer a discount, as well as those that have taken students for exams in the past and may but are not by any means certain to help.

Many centres, Tutors and Exams being an example, have online booking forms and for these you will just need your exam entry code, a method of payment and photo identification.

At other places you will need to have a conversation with the exam officer and there is guidance on this in our Student Hub.

If you want to sit a subject with an element of NEA then please read the NEA section in the Student Hub.

There is no avoiding the fact that sitting an A level is expensive.

If you are prepared to shop around, you might find a local school that will help for the price of the exam entry fee ( this is about £100 for most subjects) plus an admin fee of probably another £50 to £100. Finding an exam at this price will require a good deal of persistence and a lot of time.

Most people will not be so lucky and the normal fee for an A level at a private exam centre is anything from £350 to £450.

Beware of anywhere that charges fees by the paper rather than by subject as many A levels have three papers.

If you have already taken GCSEs then you probably have a formal diagnosis and you know what access arrangements you will be entitled to.

If this is the case then you must inform the exam officer when you make your exam booking.

In all other cases you will need to get an assessment and a diagnosis before the exam officer at any centre that agrees to help can apply for special arrangements.

Tutors and Exams have nine centres around the UK and they are particularly experienced in dealing with special arrangements.

The UCAS website will give you precise details of all grades and points but in general an AS grade is worth 40% of a full A level. However, be warned that a grade A at AS is only considered to be the equivalent of a grade B at A level.

Edexcel have a lot of information about their speaking assessments in a document called “Spotlight on Speaking Assessments”.

Also, they offer a service to centres where the target language is not taught and cannot be examined by that centre. In this case individual candidates can be entered to sit the GCE MFL oral exams with Pearson remotely via the London Centre Orals (LCO) service. As this assessment is conducted remotely, the oral exam will take place at the examination centre of the candidate with a Pearson-appointed examiner conducting the oral exam online. The host centre must ensure they have access to the video and sound link for the oral exam, which will be provided by LCO prior to the assessment. Please note that conducting speaking exams remotely outside of the LCO service is not permitted.