Finally your GCE O/L Examinations are over! All that hard working study sessions, all those endless exam are over and you are finally free! Before you start celebrating, you have some important decisions to make.

1. Select a subject stream to continue your School education and do A/L

First you have to settle on which stream you are going to study. Take a look at the information we have provided for selecting subject streams.

If you want to plan ahead you may also like to know courses you can do after Advanced Level.

2. Select Advanced Level classes

Many Science stream A/L classes start in First First week of January, sometimes even last week of December. If you are going to do Commerce or Arts stream, then those classes will commence in March, April or May, sometimes after the results are released.

3. Develop your soft skills

This period, before you get the maximum A/L work load, is ideal time to improve you English language (Communication skills), IT/ Computer skills or other skills you wish to acquire

4. Follow a professional course

Students with G.C.E.(O/L) Examination are eligible to register for professional accounting, management and IT courses such as AAT or ACCA. You can either do these courses while doing A/L or you can select them as a starting point to a future career.

5. Follow higher education without doing A/L

You can start university education shortly after O/Levels by following programs at some private universities, or even enter into Open University or External degree programs such as BIT (BSc degree in Information Technology). For this option you have to do some foundation courses and examination and then go on to register for University degree (Local or Foreign).

You can also do NIBM Degree after O/L – If you have passed O/L with five credits including a Credit pass for English. then you can follow Pre-degree Foundation Course in NIBM. After completion of this course, you can follow BSc (Hons) in Management or BSc (Hons) in Human Resources Management (HRM)

6. Find a job and continue higher education through Technical Colleges and Technical Universities

Going straight into work after school is not a common practice in Sri Lanka. However this does not have to mean that your education is over; you can coninue your education in Technical Colleges and Universities and obtain certificates, diplomas and degreesand you can get NVQ – National Vocational Qualification.

SOURCE-studentlanka