AS level question

[AtiaoftheJulii]

Is there a time limit for doing AS level modules? E.g. if someone did I've this year and one next year, would that count as an AS level? Or do they have to be taken at the same time?

Argh one! Bloody Swype.

Try his can be different for different exam bnoards. can you ask the school/college exams officer? or find pout the exma board and call them?

They have to be taken at the same time now; the courses are no longer modular as such and no Jan exams. So you take both (all) papers in May/June and get your result in August. If you fail, or don't do so well, you can re- sit the whole thing.

Can you point me in the direction of something confirming that? I'm not seeing anything concrete apart from courses that start their teaching in September 2015. My Google fu is failing me.

I have emailed the school.

This confirms Jan exams no longer available: ofqual.gov.uk/news/ofqual-announces-changes-to-a-levels/

I'm now questioning what I said about the modular thing and just checking...

Sorry, I was wrong AS levels can still be modular with opportunities to sit modules at different times, including re-sits, I think. Just there are fewer opportunities (just once a year ) or those exams. See for example p.57 of this exam spec.

filestore.aqa.org.uk/subjects/specifications/alevel/AQA-2410-W-SP-14.PDF

Though of course most centres do deliver AS in a single year: a) to then move onto A2 and b) because universities use AS marks as predictors for offers.

HTH

Why are you asking? What's the scenario?

Sorry; p.52 of the spec refers.

DD's school takes AS critical thinking over two years. One module each June.
DS is going to take AS further maths as a twilight subject split over both years of sixth form.
So yes you can.