本帖最後由 CPU1995 於 14-3-16 23:15 編輯
1. I only believe ft.com ranking and choose school within your target ranking according to your kid’s ability. http://rankings.ft.com/secondary-schools/secondary-schools-2011
2. Don’t believe school ranking sorted by agency but you can ask the agency whether the school has an edge in science subjects or arts subjects.
3. Preferably choose school located in southern part of UK as students can learn the most traditional English accent.
4. Schools located in northern part such as Wales and Scotland might have an odd English accent though school fees are generally much cheaper.
5. Preferably choose girl school instead of co-edu school for girl. I have seen a case of messy relationship of a Year 9 girl with her classmate.
6. Preferably choose full boarding (not weekly boarding) school with boarders over 250. A large boarding school usually has some compulsory 2-3 hours after-school ECAs like cricket and cross-country every day. On the contrary, many boarding schools like my son’s school with only 60 boarders has no compulsory after-school activities and he usually chooses to stay in the boarding house without enrolling any ECAs after school.
7. Ask the target school the percentage of Chinese students in the boarding house. Even some high-ranking schools such as Warwick School have 99% Hong Kong student population in the boarding house.
8. Ask the school whether the school has policy to require students to drop the subject during the interim of school term if the student performs badly in subject such as the foreign language subjects. I have seen some cases of Year 10 students being compelled to drop the foreign language subjects such as French after one term’s study.
9. Beware that some high-ranking schools might have policy to only allow students with good academic performance to sit for and study GCSE triple science in Year 11. Otherwise, those average performed students are not permitted to sit for triple science subject but have to sit for and study double award GCSE science in Year 11. This might have an adverse effect for average performed students to study A Level science subjects in Year 12.
10. Beware that some high-ranking schools might have policy to requirestudents with a min of 4 GCE AS Level Grade B to promote to Year 13. It is quite tricky for this policy that some students falling short of the academic requirements might have to repeat Year 12 or not permitted to sit for all GCE A Level subjects in Year 13.
11. Ask the school the GCSE exam board opting for students. Edexcel is the least challenging GCSE exam board out of exam boards such as OCR/AQA/Cambridge Pre-U. | 
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