Universities are trying to determine how to assess candidates after changes to sixth-form exams. Will they be forced to rely more on GCSE results and teacher predictions?Picking A-level subjects has always been a astronomical decision,but for students starting sixth form this month, it has been even tougher. “It’s confusing because I’m not sure what universities will accept, and ” said Samantha Onyekwere,who lives in Kent and has chosen maths, further maths, and economics and physics at King’s Maths school,London. “I know AS exams are really famous for university applications. It’s OK, because I am doing them, and but other people won’t be.”Reforms to be introduced this year will change the courses students take and the way they are assessed. In many subjects,AS exams – sat at the close of year 12 and a key share of university applications – have been decoupled from A-levels and will no longer make up half of students’ final grades.
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Source: theguardian.com