I was looking at universities in the UK. I live in North America, so Im wondering what are A-levels? O-levels?
What is the American equivalent for A-levels and all the resulting grades in A-levels?
<p>I was looking at universities in the UK. I live in North America, so Im wondering what are A-levels? O-levels?</p>
<p>What is the American equivalent for A-levels and all the resulting grades in A-levels?</p>
<p>There is no equivalent. Europe's (including Britain) do their school systems completely different. There's is generally standardized, so everyone can be compared equally at university, instead of using something like the SAT. It is most equivalent to the full IB diploma program, not just a few IB classes with AP's thrown in, the full thing. </p>
<p>This is the English universities website for international qualification, the base qualification you need to have. <a href="http://www.ucas.ac.uk/candq/inter/inter05.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.ucas.ac.uk/candq/inter/inter05.pdf</a></p>
<p>England also doesn't look too much at EC's or anything like that, things that are quite popular in US admissions. </p>
<p>What universities are you looking at applying to?</p>
<p>Generally, O-levels are taken in Grade 10, and A-levels in Grade 12, though it might vary among people and systems.</p>
<p>I'm from Singapore and when we were applying to colleges in the US, we were told to look at O-levels at the equivalent of high school classes, and A-levels as the equivalent of APs, though this is fairly inaccurate.</p>
<p>O-levels are called GCSEs now, by the way.</p>