Oxford Open Learning

There is no way a student can pass A level French using just OOL without hiring an independent tutor. Wrongly they will receive the credit for my exam pass but I achieved this by having weekly lessons with my private tutor. The OOL tutor asigned to me was jobs-worth, any additional request for assistance was greeted with a comment that it was more than she she was paid to do!
Sep 21st, 2022

The quality of the service provided is reflected in the price. Clearly if you pay only around 500 for an A-level course you can't expect much input from teaching. Furthermore, the materials are astonishingly poor quality. I showed my French folder to native French speakers and they said that it was full of errors. The teachers also had poor knowledge of the specification and materials provided bared little relation to the exam boards' scheme of assessment. I do not even particularly think that they were qualified to teach A-levels. I have wasted the most part of a year studying with OOL. Of course, there are few options for studying A-levels as an adult, though this company isn't worth your time.
Jan 6th, 2022

Adam Davis below is right - unless you had extra help I think you would be stuck. I passed but I already had a fairly comprehensive understanding of conversational French and simply wanted to improve my grammar. I agree with the other reviewers too - my tutor was rather uncommunicative, using one-line answers in emails, and I sensed an air of apathy over the phone at times when we did occasionally speak. What's more, I feel she may not have had that much of a higher standard of French than I already did - I would have liked to have had access to a tutor with native level French to really help immerse me in the language. I essentially taught myself on this course. The resources were good but not great - they certainly did contain spelling mistakes and typos. The only thing that helped was having a timeframe and schedule to stick to and tailored content relevant to the exam questions.
Nov 17th, 2022

Oct 14th, 2021

Appallingly communication on their part - failed to update on exam procedures. Understandable to a certain degree due to uncertainty of pandemic. However, totally unreasonably to not keep learners informed and then make it the fault and problem of the learner. They upheld my complaint, but now unscrupulous ignore my contact to take up remedy. Tutor's are good, but learning resources are archaic and examination procedures are unnecessarily convoluted at the best of times, let alone during a pandemic.
Aug 25th, 2021