The Kings Advanced Level Foundation is a highly academic, rigorous and intensive one-year course. It can be a very successful alternative to the A-level course.
It is based on the A-level syllabus and taught by Kings A-level teachers.
This one-year, fast track course leads to demanding and competitive degree courses at some of the UK’s leading universities, and is often taken as an alternative to a traditional two-year A-level course.
Equivalence with A-level
The Kings Advanced Level Foundation is based on A-level syllabuses, assessed against A-level benchmarks and moderated by an independent Advisory Board of external examiners. As such it is a highly academic pathway to the UK’s top 20 universities.
Offers to Kings Foundation students from the top 20 universities are typically based on their normal A-level offers as follows:
This means that if, for example, a university’s standard A-level offer for a given course is ABB, a Kings Foundation student who has an offer from that university would typically need to achieve a pass rate of 65% on the
Kings Advanced Level Foundation in order to take up their university place. A Kings student who achieves 75% on the Advanced Level Foundation is therefore the kind of student who could be expected to achieve three As if they were following an A-level course.
