Entry Requirements

Here at The John Warner Sixth Form we have a two-tier system of qualifications for our students to select from. We offer a wide range of academic courses which are primarily A-Level courses, and alongside these we also offer a selection of BTEC/OCR/WJEC vocational courses. For full details of the courses on offer please refer to our Course Guide.   

To reflect our two-tier system of qualifications, we also have a two-tier system of entry requirements.  

Academic Qualifications 

To gain entry to onto academic qualifications, students must achieve the following entry requirements: 

Achieve a minimum attainment 8 score of 55 

Achieve a grade 6 or above in their most relevant GCSE subject 

Please note that some A-Level qualifications also have other subject specific entry requirements. Please refer to our Course Guide for further details. 

Vocational Qualifications 

To gain entry to onto vocational qualifications, students must achieve the following entry requirements: 

Achieve a minimum attainment 8 score of 40 

Achieve a grade 4 or equivalent in their most relevant Level 2 qualification 

Understanding Attainment 8 

Attainment 8 is a national measure of Level 2 attainment which is used to assess a student’s overall academic achievement in their GCSE and equivalent qualifications. The measure considers the grades that students achieve across 8 subjects from the following groups: 

2 Core Subjects: Maths and English language or English literature 

3 EBacc Subjects: Sciences, humanities and modern foreign languages 

3 Open Subjects: Any other subjects 

The attainment 8 measure adds up the grades that students achieve in these 8 subjects (with a double weighting for the 2 core subjects) to give an overall points score.

Two examples of attainment 8 score calculations are show below: