How many years did you spend at sixth form or college

[Builditupp]

I was there three years which was quite rare and I felt left behind.

Two.

Two here too

2

Why were you there 3?

Two. Only a few who had to repeat a year for some reason took three.

2

1. It's rare to do more than that since it is 2 years of education. I thought people only go for longer if they have to resit stuff.

I had an illness which meant I missed a lot.

Three. I had to repeat some GCSEs, and then did AS and A Levels. The final year was really hard as all my friends who joined the same year left - and I was so isolated.

Also did 3, I got sectioned a few times in those years so had to redo a lot of it. I got 6 A Levels though so was worth it.

3, I couldn’t decide in a uni course by then end of 1st year and wanted to swap an a level. My head of year allowed me to stay the extra year.

@Builditupp

I was there three years which was quite rare and I felt left behind.

Does it matter?

2 years

DS1 did 3 years
DS2 will do 2 years- he nearly did 3 years as in September he decided there was a BTec he was really interested in, but didn't Perdue it.

DD will do three years if she has to retake some GCSEs, it won't be a big deal.

When I was in 6th form at an independent school there was someone who, it was rumoured, was 26 yo because he had retaken his Alevels so many times.

I was registered for 2 years at 6th form as part of my journey into adulthood.

It was a totally unsuccessful experience to say the least.....
I have done much better in life since, purely through a combination of maturity and finding out that I learn better through 'doing.'

What is your AIBU please OP?

2 years.

But at my 6th form college, there were people that seemed to do course after course (they did GCSEs, retakes, alevels and btecs). I'm sure some people must have been there 5 or 6 years. Pretty embarrassing 22 year olds, trying to act worldly wise and cool in frot of 16 year olds, and naturally 22 year old lads trying to hook up with16 year olds

I was at college for three years. Due to illness, I wasn't able to take my GCSEs at school so I took three at college and then two A-levels after that. It's ok to follow your own path, OP. There is no age limit to getting qualifications! I recently finished an MA and I'm in my mid thirties. At my graduation ceremony I was sat next to a PhD student who completed their studies in their 90s.

You don't have to do things at the same time as every one else.

I did two myself, but I taught at a sixth form college for over a decade and three years is very common. You are not unusual at all to have gone for three years.

It's pretty sad when I think of various creepy older guys hanging around at 6th form parties etc.

Three and a few false starts. A-levels then an access course. Also did night classes.

I did 2 years.
However there were other people who had to do 3 as they'd failed something.
They seemed to fit in just fine

Two, but a) three can’t be that unusual and b) who gives a shit?

Two years sixth form and then a year in college as I wanted to do a full psychology a level after doing not so great in as level at night school. I'd not quite decided what I wanted to do with myself.
I took up another as level in college as well so ended up with 3 a levels and 4 as. Still not quite sure what I want to do with myself....

Two. But loads of my friends did three, lots were on 3 year vocational courses, a few did resits, one had changed his A Levels after the first year when he decided he wanted to do Law at uni and had picked wrong. Friendship groups weren't really that defined by course or which year you were in anyway.

DH did 2 yrs at his private Catholic boys' school, then got knocked off his bike by a truck just before his A-levels, so did a further year at the local bog standard college and took his exams there.