What's the difference between college and sixth form?

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• Answer #1

  Sixth Form caters to a more specific age group (16-19) with the intention of going onto higher education. College also often offers more 'physical' subjects such as Mechanics.

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• Answer #2

  6th form is year 12, it's the year of high school when you are 17 years old. From there you can either go onto college/university or you can do 7th form at high school.

• Answer #3

  I think 6th form is the grade you go into to PREPARE for college... It's optional, but most people take it... And college, is well, college. :P

• Answer #4

  i went straight to college from school

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