Talk:Remove (education)

Clarification needed
Could someone familiar with UK public schools please clarify what prevented from going up with their peers in order to receive extra tuition actually means? 86.172.152.99 (talk) 13:41, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I can confirm this interpretation is perfectly correct, it means a boy failed his exams and repeated a year, but not with the form below him, but in a separate 'Remove' form. Contemporary (public school) readers of 'Billy Bunter' would have understood he and his classmates were not academically bright. 86.187.161.60 (talk) 22:16, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I have my doubts about this interpretation. Groogle (talk) 03:42, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

'O' levels in the remove?
The reference to Shrewsbury school suggests that students did their 'O' levels in the remove. This wasn't my experience: at King's College, Taunton in the mid-1960s I did the 'O' levels in form 5, then entered the Remove and subsequently Lower Sixth for 'A' levels. I believe that 2 years between 'O' and 'A' levels are fairly normal. I can't refute the claim about Shrewsbury, but it seems unlikely, so I've marked it "citation needed". Groogle (talk) 03:47, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

This is still not clear - if there was a Lower Sixth then presumably there was an Upper Sixth (at the end of which you took A Levels) - so you spent 3 years between O and A Levels? 86.187.161.60 (talk) 22:16, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

At my school, Merchant Taylors' Boys' School, Crosby, the Remove forms were the opposite of this - they skipped a year and did their o'levels at age 15. And clearly in King's School, Worcester it means something different. I dont see that the assertion in the article is supportable. Rathfelder (talk) 20:50, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

I'm with Rathfelder. The article seems to refer ONLY to public schools, but I attended King Edward VI Grammar School in Chelmsford, where 4R was where you went after 2T, i.e. skipping a year. O-levels were in the 5th Form, when boys could have gone through 3rd form or not. ExpatSalopian (talk) 22:58, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

This REALY needs clarifying
What comes across is that Public Schools (renowned for their use of unique jargon to disadvantage outsiders) were/are not consistent in their Form designations. 'Remove'? 'Shell'? How can you go from the 3rd to the 5th form? Can someone from Eton, Harrow and Winchester please describe each's Form progression, what they were called, at what ages, and when one took O and A levels please?

And of course, it appears that 'Frank Richards' (Charles Hamilton) did not actually go to a Public School but a local small presumably day private school - so he was imagining it. . where did he get his information from? 86.187.173.31 (talk) 16:28, 13 April 2019 (UTC)