Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on November 16, 2007 at 11:59:02 from 217.33.157.34 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: A cultural chasm opens - wasTarBoard:educational, was Fireworks posted by JLabaree on November 16, 2007 at 11:33:00:
I think that is right, though I have an idea from somewhere that it is different in Scotland.
The usual reason for staying into the third year Sixth was to take "S" levels or the old Oxbridge entrance exam (now abolished) which one took just before Christmas. This third years sixth therefore existed for one term only.