Re: OT: School systems (was: Re: Introduction)

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From: "daniel andreasson" <danielandreasson@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 10:57 PM
Subject: OT: School systems (was: Re: Introduction)


> Garth Wallace wrote:
>
> > Where I come from, junior high is two years, and middle school comes
> > right before that. Kindergarten (grade 0) through 3rd grade are
> > elementary school, 4th through 6th grade are middle school, 7th and 8th
> > are junior high, and 9th through 12th are high school.
>
> Just to clear up the Swedish school system:
>
> Age 7-9 : lågstadiet 'low stadium'
> 10-12 : mellanstadiet 'middle stadium'
> 13-15 : högstadiet 'high stadium' i.e. approx. junior high
> 16-18 : gymnasiet, which is approx. like high school
>
> You graduate in June so half of the people have turned 19
> by then. And it's possible to start school at age 6. And
> that's about it.
>
> Låg-, mellan- and högstadiet are compulsory. Gymnasiet is not,
> but I think 96% or so go on to gymnasiet anyway. Then we have
> university/högskola ("högskola" is NOT the same as "high school").
>
> University is of course free.
>
In England(and Wales), if anyone's interested, we have the following:

Age 4-7: Infants(Reception Year-Year 2) - equivalent to kindergarten, I
suppose, but it is usually lumped in with School.
Age 7-11: Juniors(Years 3-6)
Age 11-16: Seniors(Years 7-11), at the end of which GCSEs are taken.
Age 16-18: Sixth Form (Years 12 and 13), and A levels are taken as exams
throughout the Sixth Form

The English system is heavily exam based, and maybe 60% of your marks come
from exams.  The other 40% comes from:

a) Smaller Exams
b) Coursework - Specific Tasks submitted for Marking.

All of this is marked externally, of course, to avoid any kind of bias.  A
lot of people don't do A levels, and University costs lots of money(though
not in US terms).  Other than that, though, it seems to work pretty well.

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