A-levels are pre-university qualifications which most English students complete during their last couple of years of school (known as sixth form) in order to gain admission to university. Foundation College offers A-level courses as a teaching and examination centre for Pearson (Edexcel), one of the largest examination boards offering these qualifications. You can choose to attend our courses by live classes or online via the zoom platform. Each A-level subject cab be studied over one year (accelerated course) or two years (standard course) . A-levels are the most accepted university admission qualifications in the UK but they are also acceptable at with many European countries such as Holland, Germany, Italy, Ireland and Switzerland, as well as many American universities. For a full list of universities accepting the Pearson A-levels see here.

We offer one-year (accelerated) or two-year (standard) courses in:

- Mathematics 

- Physics 

- Chemistry 

- Biology 

- Economics 

- Psychology

- Law 

- Business

- English Literature  

- Further Mathematics (taught only online)

- Art and Design 

- Greek

- Information Technology 

2023-24   Weekly Class Schedule

Although typical A-level courses at schools run over two years, we also offer the option to complete entire A-levels in one-year for a number of reasons. First, A-levels are flexible. They are mere examinations so there is no prescribed teaching time. Students can opt to focus their effort to just one A-level in one year (which is a relatively easy goal) or to three A-levels in just one year (which is demanding but suits an academically strong 18 year old school leaver). Second, our typical student is a better than average student who can complete one or two A-levels in one year with high grades. Third, students who have already completed one or two A-levels before they apply to university can strengthen their prospects of receiving an offer by featuring the grades of their completed A-levels in their applications (otherwise they rely on predictions). This means that for anyone planning to do three A-levels over two years we prefer to teach them one plus two or two plus one rather than the (more conventional) three A-levels over the entire period. However as more and more students wish to take A-levels as a regular school programme over two years we decided to offer the standard delivery mode in all our subjects. This also applies to our Leoforos Kifisias centre at IMS which offers the more conventional two year A-level courses. At present IMS teaches specific subjects only: Mathematics, Chemistry, Economics, Biology and Physics AS ad A2 -level.

What makes our A-level programme different from that of conventional schools is that we incorporate a lot of exam preparation by teaching past-paper sessions right up to exam time. We are not happy to merely complete the syllabus and set a couple of mock exams; we want our students to be as well prepared as possible for the exams.

We offer classes both in a physical class and online so students can study from home. Further Mathematics is offered only online. The courseload is a total of 4 teaching hours per subject per week shared between two class sessions. Class schedule is finalised in early September each year but, in general, classes start at 4:30 pm on weekdays and are organised so that each AS-level is taught once per week and each full A-level is taught twice per week. 

We believe that students should be happy with the teaching they receive. In most schools teaching is experienced only after students commit themselves to the school. Furthermore students are obliged to take on the entire group of teachers that comes with a school. All this is now changing with online classes which are becoming commonplace. You can switch from one school to another in a few seconds and, unlike the IB, you don't have to do all your A-levels at the same school. With our classes being in the afternoon we hope there will be no timetable conflict and being able to evaluate the teaching before committing yourself to the course is something we prize so you can try to our classes to see if they suit you - but please do so before the summer because we no longer have classes running after the end of May. Get in touch with Popi Dimitroglou on +30-2105243600 or send an email to admin@fcollege.gr to get to try any of our courses.

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Successes at A-levels: Although our A-levels programme is relatively young compared to our foundation programme, it has already achieved some outstanding results. In 2011, Giannis Stylianidis was admitted to study Mathematics at Hughes Hall College in Cambridge, while in 2012 we had offers for Economics from St Edmunds College, Cambridge and for Economics and Mathematics from the London School of Economics and Warwick. In 2013 Michael Sinoplis was admitted at Imperial College to study Mechanical Engineering. In 2014 Rafael Koumarianos achieved A*A*A* and was admitted to study Mathematics at Cambridge University, Stefanos Agiotakis achieved A*AAA and was admitted to study Medicine at Manchester University and Tim Evans achieved A*AAA and went to study Mechanical Engineering at Southampton. In 2015 Giorgos Terezakis was admitted to study Mathematics at Cambridge having achieved A*A*A*. In the same year Ioannis Kalamaras achieved A*A*A and was admitted to study Economics at Bath. He also won the Edexcel prize of the year 2015 by scoring the highest grade in the world in A-level Mathematics. In 2017 Manolis Angelidakis achieved A*A*A*A*A*  in Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Biology and was admitted at Cambridge to study Chemical Engineering. In the same year Manolis won the Edexcel prize for scoring the highest grade in the world in Further Mathematics. In 2018 our students earned two country prizes by achieving the highest grade in International A-level Economics and the highest grade in International A-level Greek. In 2019 Loris M. achieved A*A*A*A* at the age of 17 with one year to spare as she continued with her final year at school!  In the same year Maria K. achieved A*B  and was admitted to study Archaeology in Cambridge. In 2020 Dimitra P. achieved A*A*A and succeeded to enter Oxford University for Biology. In 2021 Alexandros V. and Ioannis N. achieved A*A*A* and were admitted to study medicine at Nottingham and Humanitas respectively. Ainta M scored A*A* and was admitted to study Mathematics at Kings College, London. In 2022 Kimon A. achieved A*A* and was admitted to study Mathematics at Loughborough. Bearing in mind that we have a very small A-level programme with about 40 students studying A-levels with us each year, these outstanding achievements are indicative of the support we give our students. For more information contact Dr Valsamis on 210-5243600.