Admission Criteria
A level Courses
To join our A level course students who have been previously taught in the UK, or have followed a UK based curriculum will need a minimum of 5 A or B GCSE/IGCSE grades. Grade C in GCSE English is also required.
For all other students we can accept a wide range of equivalent qualifications.
All overseas candidates will need a reasonable level of English.
Students coming from EU countries* will either need to take an IELTS exam or an alternative English test, which can be taken via one of our agents in their home country.
Students coming from Non EU countries who are applying for an Adult Student Visa must take an IELTS exam.
Students taking the IELTS exam must score at least 5.5 in the exam for Mathematics and Science based subjects and 6.0 to study any essay based subjects such as History, Law and Economics.
All students wishing to undertake the 18 month A level course are required to have IELTS 6.0 (or equivilent) at the start of the course.
Please do not hesitate to contact us for further information if you require it.
For those students who wish to improve their level of English prior to starting a course at CTC please see our Pre-Sessional Courses page
GCSE Courses
Students generally need to be at least 15 years old to join our GCSE course.
Students coming from the EU will either need to take an IELTS exam or an alternative English test via one of our agents in their home country. (This is a different test to the one taken for our A Level course.)
Students from non-EU countries will normally be required to take an IELTS exam
Students taking the IELTS exam must score at least 5.0 to be accepted on our GCSE course.
*EU countries:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom