Changing exam boards- please help!

[scout]

Hey everyone,

I've found a local college where i can study AS Chemistry on an evening. However, they have said that they very rarely offer Chemistry at A2 Level. So if i do the AS with them i will probably have to find another college to sit the A2. Now there is another college a bit further away from me where i could do the A2 in a years time. However, the colleges both use different exam boards for Chemistry. So my question is, if i did the AS and then had to do the A2 at a different college would i be able to transfer the credits from one exam board to another??? I'm not sure that i've explained this very well at all

[Rake]

I don't think you can transfer the modules between the exam boards; for it to count as a full A-Level, you'd have to do both the AS and the A2 with the same board. You'd need to consider how similar the exam boards are. I'm in a similar situation - I have an A-Level with CCEA from school, but my nearest college only offers AQA, so I could be taking AQA classes for a CCEA exam (which may have different topics) and I'm not sure how sensible that is.

[Shakey]

i don't think you can because our chem tecaher wanted to change us from nuffield to AQA for A2 but we weren't able to transfer the credits over so we are stuck doin nuffield next year

[scout]

Thanks for the replies guys. I think i'm gonna play it safe and go to the college a bit further away so that i can just carry on with the A2 after AS without the worry of having to change colleges.