Tuesday, June 30, 2009

INTRODUCING AS LEVEL

From August 2009 LACAS will be introducing AS Level qualifications to the incoming A-Level students. The AS will enable students to sit for half the A-Level course content in the first year and the other half at the end of the second year. Students will thereby secure a full A-Level in two years through a staged assessment route.

WHY AS LEVEL?

AS Level will:

  • encourage students to have a serious approach towards there academics from the very start of the A-Level programme;
  • reduce the burden on students as they will have the benefit of staged examinations;
  • provide students the opportunity to sit the entire A-Level at the end of two years if they do not achieve a good grade in the AS Level examination ;
  • allow students to take a greater number of subjects at AS Level of which they need pursue only three or four in A2 to secure the complete A Level. This will make student applications to universities more competitive as they will have had exposure to a larger number of subjects;
  • provide students with an internationally recognized qualification at the end of the first year of A-Level;
  • greatly assist students in their admission process to universities for undergraduate studies.

11 comments:

  1. whattt??? but i want to do A/S levelssssss!!!!

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  2. arent they offering As level? why the long face?

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  3. I think this is a wonderful idea!! It is a pity that other schools in lahore dont offer this facility to their students. Well done Lacas!

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  4. Lacas is the only school to offer AS level? I think eventually more schools will offer AS level after this.

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  5. AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  6. awesoooooomeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  7. my parents like wont like let me come to a coed school so this is baaaaad... i really want AS!!!

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  8. From a teacher's perspective, I believe that students are motivated from the very beginning to work hard rather than working in the last few months before their exams. However many of my students have protested against the introduction of AS saying that they have just taken their O'Levels and it is unfair to burden them right after their exams. Yet I still believe that this is sheer laziness on their parts and AS Level should be introduced in every school.

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  9. yea but it takes us students a while to get used to brand new subjects right after totally different o level subjects. some can handle the pressure but others cant and its unfair on them. its really unfair to have exams on top of exams for 3 consecutive years..

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