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A Levels in a year – live lessons straight to you at home. Interactive teaching from Charterhouse Online

On the face of it, A levels in one year feels all wrong: these are challenging qualifications and that’s why they take two years.

However, this conventional approach does not suit everyone and sometimes circumstances dictate that it might not be the approach that all students need.

During the pandemic, all of us in education recognised the challenges of delivering online, but we also saw that for some students, learning online was more successful than being in school. There were many reasons for this: the freedom from distractions; from peer pressures; from having to do sports and activities you didn’t want to.

Instead, there was the upside of more time at home, less hours in the classroom and the freedom to choose how to make best use of your free time. So, if you preferred to only do weights, or yoga, or swimming and can’t stand cricket, hockey and tennis, then lockdown gave you these choices.

Other factors might also mean that a one-year option makes sense. Perhaps, you made the wrong choice of subjects and don’t want to take two years to change direction; you might have had to miss a lot of school through illness or injury; you might have simply moved house, school or even country at a time that interfered with your education. Maybe you want to take a gap year without falling behind your age-group peers or you might simply prefer the idea of studying from home, but in a sociable and supportive structure. If any of these apply to you, then Charterhouse Online is a great choice. You will have daily live lessons, subject clinics and tutorials and the interactive self-study skills you will learn will be a considerable advantage when you move onto university.

So, if you are an academically ambitious and self-motivated student, then think about how opening the doors to some of the world’s best universities in only one year might benefit you. Because after all, the conventional approach doesn't suit everyone.