noun

• The first year of sixth form, typically for students aged between 16 and 17 and preparing for AS levels.

  ‘they are going to be working harder in the lower sixth’

  More example sentences

  • ‘lower sixth students’
  • ‘The untouchable champ of the Lower Sixth had recently been made Head Boy of his metropolitan English school.’
  • ‘I was in the lower sixth at the time and, as a girl in a northern comprehensive, I was actively discouraged by my teachers from making an Oxford application.’
  • ‘Like my younger self, most of my lower-sixth audience came across as believers in the principle of free speech.’
  • ‘I'm looking forward to moving into Lower Sixth.’
  • ‘Year 9 and Lower Sixth exchange with sister schools in France, Germany, Austria and Spain.’
  • ‘A survey of schools this year found that around half of teachers still believed lower-sixth students were struggling to cope.’
  • ‘Today's system means sixth formers now get six units—three in AS which they start in lower sixth, and three in A2 which they study in the upper sixth.’
  • ‘I had just started in Lower Sixth of the same school I had attended for five years.’
  • ‘We used to play music on the lower sixth's tape player.’
  • ‘For all students, transfer from lower sixth to upper sixth will be conditional upon their record and upon AS examination results.’