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Reasons to Resit your A-Levels

If you’re one of the many students who didn’t get the A-Level results they were looking for, don’t worry. You are definitely not alone. Whether you got your results years ago or recently, there are many options open to you. We’re giving 5 reasons to resit your A-levels and reassuring you it’s not as bad as you might think. First things first, restting A-Levels does not mean you have to go back to school or college. You have lots of different options available to you, and your old school or college isn’t one. Secondly, resitting your A-Levels won’t take another two years of study, you can actually complete resitting your A-Levels in one year.

So now you’re more sure of what resitting your A-Levels entails, let’s look at the reasons why you should resit your A-Levels and how what seems like a set back is possibly a blessing in disguise.

5 Reasons to Resit your A-Levels

1. Develops your Work Ethic

Contrary to popular belief, universities aren’t just about getting to be a classic student, partying endlessly and eating junk because they don’t know how to cook anything, it’s all about education and learning. When you go to university, you’re going to be expected to manage yourself and your learning. You’re not going to have a teacher and parent chasing to check if you have completed your work or if you’re on schedule, it will be down to you to do that, which is where work ethic comes in. Now, if you’ve had to resit your A-Levels, you will have developed a strong work ethic to get you through your studies and exams.

2. Builds your Studying Ability and Techniques

Let’s be honest here, if you didn’t get the results and grades that you wanted, then a contributing factor to that will be your studying ability and techniques. Studying isn’t something that comes naturally and it’s something you have to work on and develop to be really effective with it. So resitting your A-Levels will give you that chance to identify where you went wrong and which techniques didn’t work for you, meaning you won’t make the same mistakes twice and you will develop techniques that do work for you.

3. Improves your Knowledge of the Subjects

Whether it’s one or more A-Levels you have to resit, going back over the course materials and syllabus will give you a chance to really get to grips with the subject. Areas you may have skimmed over the first time round will be available for you to study in depth and enjoy. More importantly, the areas of the course you didn’t understand or couldn’t get your head round the first time can be re-studied and worked through giving you a chance to better understand them.

4. Shows Character and Resilience

It takes a brave person to hold their hands up and admit they went wrong. And what’s more, it takes a brave person with strong character and resilience to admit their mistakes and then go on to correct them. So rather than seeing resitting your A-Levels as a bad thing, look at it as building your character and resilience, which is something you’re always going to need in life.

5. Gets you onto the Degree you Really Wanted to Study

We left the last reason until last, as it’s probably the most obvious! Before you chose your A-Levels, you spent weeks (maybe even months) working out what Degree you wanted to study and at which university. You went through all the applications and interviews to get your offers through and then you fell at the last hurdle (the exams). So, to just throw all that work and planning out the window and settle for just any Degree you can get onto seems like a shame and waste, especially when you’re only looking at a year’s delay to your studies.

What A Levels can I Resit?

This is the great thing about A Levels. You can resit any of the subjects you want to. There are no restrictions on whether you are allowed to retake a course. You just have to be ready and willing to put the hours in and get the studying done ready for your next examination period.

As a Private Candidate resitting your A Levels is very simple. You pick the subjects you want to improve your grades on, find a college or online college to study at and get on with it. It really doesn’t matter if it’s Mathematics, English, History, Geography, Sociology, Psychology. So basically, as long as the college offer the course, you can resit it.

How many Hours of Study is an A Level?

One A Level takes the average student 350 hours of study time. Which means, if you’re redoing your A levels, you can expect to spend less time than that getting your head around the syllabus. So this means you don’t have to take a full two years to study your A Level again, you can instead fast track your learning and get them over and done with in just a year.

What A Levels can be Studied Online?

Ready to be amazed? The truth is, apart from a few subjects (like Drama and Art), you can study almost any A Level subject online. And what’s more, online A Levels have the same value and standing as traditional A Levels. They come from the same awarding bodies and come with the same UCAs points. Just see below for a list of available subjects:

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