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Hi Conor, you say you are 16, in the UK and have just left school, and that you are thinking of getting a full-time job instead of going into Higher Education. Now that's fine, but there is a two year gap between 16 and Higher Education!If you are 16 and have just left school, then presumably you've just done your GCSEs. How did they go, and what were your results like? Did you get at least five of them with grade 5 or above, and do those with grades of 5 or better include Maths and English? Because if not, you are always going to be very limited in your career options. You really need them, if you are not going to be stuck in pretty awful jobs.The term Higher Education means University level, and you are two years and several A levels away from that stage. What you are apparently turning down is not just Higher Education (18 plus) but Further Education (16 plus) too. Did school really not explain all this to you, or were you just not there when they did?The law on school leaving has changed, and everyone between 16 and 18 is supposed to be either in education or in employment with training. Effectively this means an apprenticeship, but it sounds as if you didn't get that message either. You'll have left it very late for this year; most people in your year who aren't staying on for A levels or equivalent will have been sorting this out months ago. And you can't just sign on for jobseeking, and claim any benefit — which reminds me, your parents won't be entitled to Child Benefit either if you're not in education. Do they know this?So what you probably need to do is to get down to your local FE college, and find yourself a practical course there that will help you into a good apprenticeship next year. My son did this some years ago, when he decided A levels weren't his thing; he did a Level 1 Engineering course (and this was someone with 8 good GCSEs and AS level Physics!) for a year, got a good apprenticeship, and has never looked back. He's spent some years being a highly skilled and decently paid machinist, and has just been promoted to a job as Production Engineer. It's a graduate level job, but he's senior to several people who've got degrees, but don't know as much as he does!So there are routes that don't involve university, really there are. But please don't just accept a dead end job with no interesting future, because that's your future you're flushing down the loo.

I'm terribly sorry, but unless you can find a school locally that will enable you to have access to a suitable lab, complete with suitable supervision, then you probably don't. Exam boards don't design things like A level Physics to be done in the comfort of your own home. In any case, who is going to supervise and assess your practical work in your own bedroom?Maybe you should either choose subjects that are compatible with home schooling or else accept that at this level, schooling is easier with the facilities, and the teaching, that a school provides. I am not unsympathetic to home schooling, and indeed can see a strong case for it in some situations, but by this stage in your education, I really think it's time to encounter the outside world. In any case, I presume that you are doing A levels with the intention of going to university, and in most cases that implies actually going somewhere, even if it's only just down the road.Sorry if this is not what you want to hear, but I am trying to be realistic. Thanks for the A2A.

Nope.The reason you do examinations is to measure your understanding of the subject.Why is that important? Because when you move to the next level up, if you have an imperfect understanding of something, that’s going to spread and magnify and you won’t understand much of that level.If you’re at A level, then it’s a sign that you did well at GCSE. GCSE, regardless of what the students doing it now think, is baby stuff. Now you’re at A level, the nappies come off and this is where you work for a living. If you can’t get past A level then you aren’t going anywhere in the first year of your university studies and will probably either drop out or fail.A level sorts out the wheat from the chaff. It’s meant to establish standards. It’s meant to be hard. It’s meant to instill in you a mental rigour and discipline that will serve you well in the years to come. If you can’t handle how hard A level is, you’ve no business doing A level, and it’s no good crying about it and saying it’s too hard. Either you man up (or woman up) and do the work, or you bugger off and do an NVQ in something else.Same for BTEC. It’s more practical than A level and the academic kids can’t handle that. But just because it’s practical does not mean it’s not hard. If you can’t handle L3 you’re going nowhere with HND.That’s the harsh truth. It might be that you can’t muster the mental discipline or perhaps the talent needed for the level. If that’s the case, you’re doomed to failure and you shouldn’t be doing it. Either you knuckle down and learn the ropes or you do something else.They say education is a right, not a privilege. They’re wrong. It’s a privilege you earn by applying yourself to the subject at hand and getting a deep understanding of it. A level tests how deeply you understand it. Put the right work in to the right subject (no good doing Eng Lit if your forté is Chemistry and Physics) and you’ll get your result. It’s hard work. It’s meant to be.Pick your strengths, and get to your studies. You’ve got two years of slog ahead of you.Whether or not it was worth it at the end is up to you.