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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sixth form
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Mitosis lasted two years during the period between the pair leaving the sixth form and attending university.
▪ Remember that big sloppy jumper you knitted me when I was in the sixth form - that maroon one?
▪ The former Branksome Comprehensive and Darlington sixth form college pupil is now doing a postgraduate teaching course in Birmingham.
▪ The standards and ideals of the sixth form, as the Crowther Report had epitomized them, dominated the school.
▪ University life had developed many of the traits Gedge first revealed while he was in the sixth form.
Wiktionary
sixth form

n. (context English education system English) the final two years of secondary schooling during which students are about sixteen to eighteen years of age.

WordNet
sixth form

n. students preparing for their A levels in their final two years of secondary education

Wikipedia
Sixth form

In the education systems of England, Northern Ireland, Wales and some other Commonwealth countries, sixth form (sometimes referred to as Key Stage 5) represents the final two years of secondary education (high school), where students (typically between 16 and 18 years of age) prepare for their A-level (or equivalent) examinations.

Usage examples of "sixth form".

It had been bad enough in the starchy sixth form the last term, but really, the fifth form were even worse, the way they left her out of things.

Or should she leave the sixth form to get on by themselves, and go back to the first?

At sixteen I entered the sixth form and began to work even harder: it was explained to Miss Benson that I might possibly win a scholarship to the University of Melbourne not an everyday occurrence for an inmate from St.

I can't see why it should be any different for the sixth form at St.

He had friends, two or three in the sixth form who, like him, had followed the same science syllabus and been promised places in medical school in the autumn, but they were friendships that didn't go deep.

Julia had promised sixth form boys in general, Phil in particular, so Sam'd spent even longer than usual getting ready.

He grasped her by one of her skinny arms and led her over to where the Sixth Form was standing.

When he was in the Sixth Form he liked to have dinner with me at my club -- he thought clubs rather grand and grown-up -- and to go to an occasional concert or theatre.

I had swapped one group of friends for another during the sixth form: the football crowd who had got me through the first five years of secondary school, Frog, Larry aka Caz and the rest, had started to seem less interesting than the depressive and exquisitely laconic young men in my English set, and suddenly life was all drink and soft drugs and European literature and Van Morrison.

The sixth form all sent her a telegram saying: what's wrong with us?