Kingscote sixth form

[chezzachez.livejournal.com]

I've been puzzled as to whether the sixth at Kingscote is one year or two. I think that in FL it says that Rowan is going to miss two years of school; but then Jan Scott in CT is, I think, referred to as having been in teams with Rowan and the sixth with Kay. And surely Lois was in the upper fifth with Rowan, but then stays on, but just for one year? Can anyone shed any light?

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[manda-09.livejournal.com]

In the 1960s, anyway, Oxbridge Entry was normally done in the Third Year Sixth - the pupil stayed on for one more term, and did Oxford or Cambridge entry, then left at Christmas. That's what my Dad did, in 1968, anyway. He did his A levels in the summer, then did Oxford entrance in the autumn term (third sixth) and then spent from New Year to the summer working in a youth hostel in Germany before he started university.

My mother, unusually, did Cambridge entry before her A levels, and therefore in the autumn term of second sixth. Then she did her A levels the following summer, and started at Cambridge that autumn.

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

I did the same as your father. It was possible to sit the Oxbridge exams in the same year as sitting A levels but my school felt that this made the year too demanding and put all one's eggs in one basket (if one didn't get a place on the basis of the exam, it risked damaging one's A level marks and not getting a suitable place at any other university)