Tonbridge School
High Street, Tonbridge,
Kent, TN9 1JP
Sixth Form Guide - Coursework And Projects
Many subjects require candidates to submit one or more pieces of coursework, or to prepare an investigative project. These are often demanding tasks, and considerable advice is provided at every stage. They are also the supreme test of your ability to plan and to organise yourself, for the temptation to leave everything until the last moment is an obvious one. It is for this reason that internal deadlines are always set, and these often incorporate a number of drafts. The purpose of such deadlines is to 'spread the workload', and to ensure that coursework or project preparation does not dominate your academic efforts at particular times of the year, to the detriment of your work in other subjects. It follows that you must always respect these deadlines, for it is in your own interest to do so. A backlog of incomplete projects in either year is to be avoided at all costs; it interferes with your academic routines in other subjects, and always undermines essential revision programmes and, ultimately, AS and A Level performance.