What are people talking about when they say 6th form?

Question

What are people talking about when they say 6th form?

Answer 1

optional last year in uk schools instead of going to college

Answer 2

Some High Schools (am assuming UK, so ages 11-16) have a couple of extra years at the end, past year 11 (usually when someone would leave and go to college) and these years ar equivalent to time spent at college. So basically a sixth form is a high school with the a-level years on it.

Answer 3

Pokemon!

Gotta catch em all!

Answer 4

Traditionally the UK education system was six years of primary school followed by seven years of secondary school. The years were numbered thus: Junior 1st form, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and Junior 6th form, then 1st form, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, Lower 6th and Upper 6th form. You could leave school at 16 or the 5th form. However, you could stay on to do "A" levels, go to technical college or take an apprenticeship.

Some years ago the years were changed so they're now called Year 1, 2, 3,...10 and 11. I think that year 11 is the end of the system because, bizarrely, the 6th form stayed as the 6th form! One reason for this is that many places have separate 6th Form Colleges that only teach 17 and 18 year-olds, or more precisely people whose 17th birthday falls between 1st September and 31st August the year before they started 6th form. So I was usually the youngest with a birthday at the end of August.