Your son would need to look up where he could take the exams in the relevant A-levels - maybe his current school/6th form would be willing to provide for him as a "private candidate", for which the school might charge a hefty fee....
You would then need to organise a tutor for a few hours per week in each subject. Not cheap as A-level tutors charge at least £25 per hour. And then you have to get stocks of past papers for practice, and then you would need to know the calendar of exam dates, and deadlines for coursework, and practicals, eg for science subjects.
Why not get him to cost it all out, it would be a very good practical exercise.
It is not an impossible task, but getting good grades in A-levels is not quite as staightforward as the popular press implies. Most teachers of A-level subjects know that their students have part-time jobs, and a few hours work per week can actually make a student organise their time more effectively. Beyond a that number of hours the academic work suffers, and so do the results. I have taught many students who were torn between jobs and study, and sometimes the job was too important to the student because of the money that was needed to help the student's family.

Guess that it might be a lot more economical to stick it out in school! After all schools have reputations to maintain with their records of pass rates, so they are used to keeping the pressure on their students.

This post was last modified: 07-03-2012 05:21 PM by derbybill.