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r academic ability. A town or rural area which still has the old “grammar” system has an exam at 11 (the 11 plus) to select the children with the highest academic ability to go to grammar schools. Those who don’t go to grammar school go to secondary schools (which are still usually called prehensive, even if the top 510% of children don’t go there.) Some grammar schools are still singlesex schools. Children have to go to school until they are 16 by law. At 16 they take their General Certificate of Secondary Education exams (GCSEs) in about 610 subjects. If they pass, they can stay on at school and do “A” level exams (Advanced levels) when they are 18. This is for people who want to go to University or some other kind of tertiary education. These two years are known as the Sixth Form (6 one, and 6 two) and the students are called “sixth formers”. Typically students tak e three related subjects (eg. Physics/Chemistry/Biology or English/French/German). They have classes in these subjects, but also free study time when they are expected to do research and reading in the library and study rooms. They are tr