If students stay at school after they are sixteen, they can go into the sixth form for two years. Here students usually study three subjects. At the end of the sixth form they take an examination called A-levels.

 When A-level students are eighteen they leave school. They can then get a job, go to a collage or go to university.

SCHOOL SYSTEM IN UK

Children in Britain start school when they are five years old. They go to a primary school until they are eleven. Then they go to a secondary school. They can leave when they are sixteen. In the last two years of school they work towards a qualification called the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE).

 If they leave school when they are sixteen, young people can get a job or they can go to a collage. At a collage students usually study practical subjects like typing, cooking, mechanics, hairdressing, etc.

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