Request: British Education System Explained

Tue, Jul 7, 2009

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A request video for meanymygenius explaining the British education system….

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25 Comments For This Post

  1. SuperShoopdawhoop Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    No “reception” in Scotland, we just go into primary 1 at age 5, so we leave at the end of primary 7. And we don’t really go by infants, juniors, etc, they aren’t seperated. And no SATS. And we say S1, S2, S3 and S4, not Year 7, Year 8, etc. We do Standard Grades (equiv. to GCSEs?) in S4, and have the choice to stay onto S5 + S6 where we do Higher exams. I understand you’re mainly talking about the English system here, but it’s incorrect to label it as British if you don’t cover all of Britain.

  2. rshb7 Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    Nice video.

    School uniforms exist in India as well.

  3. cuuldude1 Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    Just one correction:

    We don’t do SATs in Wales. (We still do some exams in Year 6 and Year 9, but not SATs).

  4. MidgetJazzi Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    Spot on :D except where i come from theres 3 schools primary(years1-4), middle(years5-8) and upper/high(years 9-11/13) :D and yeaah it will be complusary for people to stay on till there 18 . the last year which gets the choice is the year 9s of 2008/9 . which happenes to be my year X)
    *Thumbs Up* x

  5. granulomatosis2 Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    thanks!

  6. KatieAckers Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    SATs aren’t done in private schools, just to let you know xD

  7. ema93 Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    well yeah, cause there’s trades and stuff :)
    but i’m pretty sure most people have to attend colloge before university, depending on their job choice.
    :)

  8. ryanbert Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    You don’t need to go to a college before you go to a university!

    A lot of my friends are going straight out of high school to Universities! (Then again it depends on what program you want to get in to).
    :)

  9. ryanbert Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    You hit it spot on!
    -Preschool (3-4).
    -Kindergarten (5/6).
    -Elementary (6-11).
    -Middle School / Junior High School (11-14).
    -High School (until age of 18).

    Only a few states in the United States allow students to go to college while they are still in high school. I live in Washington State, and I passed a ton of preliminary tests, and my high school allowed me to go to a local community college.

    Colleges and Universities are very hard to get in to in the United States (money/grade reqs).

  10. 6deep6cuts6 Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    i got accepted to go to a levels. its kind of tough, but i hope i can stay for the next years one too.
    in america, i believe it’s:

    preschool,kindergarten, elementary, middle or junior school and then highschool, then after that you can go to a college or university, but if you’re bright enough you can go to a community college while still in highschool. i lived there for a year.

  11. ema93 Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    that sounds exactly like the quebec schooling system.
    we have preschool, which basically is playground. then we have elemantary school, which is primary school and afterwards we have 5 years of high-school, which is secondary school.

    after high school, you can stop your education or you can enter into a college for 2-4 years. then after college, there’s university. :)

  12. rohull Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    i like goin college only 4 the girls lol dont c any othere reoson to go college is shit

  13. Averysavoy04 Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    woah. it is very confusing.

  14. SkyboxMonster Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    I just have to say this: the set time when a student is in class from one bell to another is called a class Period.

    and yeah it sounds complex, but our main tests for high school are called Finals, this makes them sound scary so under classmen fear them and study harder as to not fail them. we also have SAT placement tests

  15. numa0nicole0numa Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    (ages may vary from start of school and if held back)
    (most american schools go by these grades in these schools)

  16. kristen2936175 Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    we also in America use the term primary and secondary school but it’s not common and it usually is only used by the schools when they pass out flyers or something… but it means the same thing as what you explained and you also explain another word… college here is university there and college there is equivalent to what we call community college … I think lol

  17. kristen2936175 Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    playgroup I think is equivalent to the American preschool u don’t have 2 go but you can

  18. LauraS1323 Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    SAT’s for college is quite vague, and could obviously be interpreted more than one way, since the way you wrote it, it “Must pass….& SAT’s for college” …So, the way you wrote it, it could mean either that you need to pass SAT’s to go to college, OR that you have to pass SAT’s or graduate high school.

  19. nicolcacola Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    Yeah thats why I said “SAT’s for college”. You need to work on your reading comprehension…just saying..

  20. Harwood12productions Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    it has changed in the UK so the current year 7′s have to stay until there 18, half of me feels sorry for them and the other half just wants to point and laugh at them lol

  21. LauraS1323 Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    Actually, you don’t have to pass and SAT or ACT to graduate high school, you just have to TAKE one or the other and your score decides which colleges or universities will accept you, should you decide to go.You can earn an Associate’s Degree at a jr. college and also get a vocational degree, they’re not only to get credits for a university. Also, it’s you’re, not your….just saying……

  22. goooooofygoober Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    What are you talking about?

    I live in California, and my school was like this.

    Preschool: didn’t go, wasn’t required.
    kindergarden: I started kindergarden at 4.

    my elementary school was grade 1-5

    and my middle school was grade 6-8

    then my highschool is 9-12.

    I’m going to be a grade 12 next year O.O a senior!

    I’ll graduate at 17.

  23. rizmebabe Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    Ahaaa, when you said 30ish people got kicked out of a group of 60 I went OMG THAT HAPPENED AT MINE. And then you said 6th Form and going to LINCOLN… I was like… did this guy ACTUALLY go to my school? Was it a Specialist in Sports school? Or are the two just FREAKISHLY similar?

  24. 0casteloencantado0 Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    in portugal we have nursery school untill we are 4 or 5 (optional), then we have primary school untill we are 9. then basic school untill we are 14 and then secondary school untill we are 18. then university, if we want to.
    easy!

  25. 2822baby Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    at my school i think there’s a football team and thats it..
    i don’t think many schools do any extracurricular activities, cos i don’t think teachers get paid overtime for it..

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