Seems accurate to my experience in that bracket around half a dozen years earlier. Personally, I coasted to that point. That came with a complete lack of motivation to do better and a lack of external forces to push for it. Between an absentee single parent and a school that only really taught me how to pass standardised testing, it felt rigged. The one time they did appear to care was when I laughed at a threat to call my parents. In 2nd year Sixth Form (optional education for those unfamiliar). Because I had a 12% attendance rate total. A month before final exams. Yeah, it's a bit late to care by then but it was probably more to do with the fact I laughed at the suggestion to begin with.

For the record, I did qualify (ABB on that attendance rate isn't bad) and didn't go for a year because I had no fuckign clue what I wanted to do. Never got the chance to see a Careers Advisor that everybody else supposedly saw (never saw anybody in that office, ever) and ended up picking some bullshit MechEng course I drank heavily through and never finished. What a fucking surprise.

My advice? Don't go unless you know exactly what you want to do and what you want that qualification to go towards. Even if it's a 10 year delay in going. Don't do it because you feel you should like I did, do it because you need it done to achieve something specific.

I suspect nothing is going to change until that number drops below 5%.

Seems accurate to my experience in that bracket around half a dozen years earlier. Personally, I coasted to that point. That came with a complete lack of motivation to do better and a lack of external forces to push for it. Between an absentee single parent and a school that only really taught me how to pass standardised testing, it felt rigged. The one time they did appear to care was when I laughed at a threat to call my parents. In 2nd year Sixth Form (optional education for those unfamiliar). Because I had a 12% attendance rate total. A month before final exams. Yeah, it's a bit late to care by then but it was probably more to do with the fact I laughed at the suggestion to begin with.

For the record, I did qualify (ABB on that attendance rate isn't bad) and didn't go for a year because I had no fuckign clue what I wanted to do. Never got the chance to see a Careers Advisor that everybody else supposedly saw (never saw anybody in that office, ever) and ended up picking some bullshit MechEng course I drank heavily through and never finished. What a fucking surprise.

My advice? Don't go unless you know exactly what you want to do and what you want that qualification to go towards. Even if it's a 10 year delay in going. Don't do it because you feel you should like I did, do it because you need it done to achieve something specific.