Can somebody PLEASE explain the english school system to me? ?

Question

In all detail, please. I am turning 16 on October 1st.

Answer 1

OK, these are mostly right except if you are turning 16 in october then you would be going into year 11 in september not, not year10. Except I have a friend that moved here from New Zealand but had to start at year 10 anyway because he had not done any coursework or anything for his GCSEs, so that's what you'll have to do, I imagine.

Coursework are like all the assignments you get set that add to your GCSE grade. They can sometimes add up to about 50% of your end mark although it depends on the subject. For example, English has more coursework than Science or Maths.

Oh, and you will also have to choose the options of what you want to study. The compulsary subjects are a bit different (though not much) at each school. They are always : Maths, English and English Literature (these count as two grades but you just have general 'English' lessons and then 2 different exams), Science (usually split up into Physics, Chem and Bio), a language, a technology (textiles, catering, engineering, systems). Then you choose 2 or 3 more lessons that you want which inde: Music, Drama, History, Art, Geography, a seond language, sociology, Media Studies etc. They vary at different schools too.

You leave school at the end of year 11, after completing your GCSEs and that's when compulsary education ends.

Then you can go to college or sixth form for 2 years, if you wanted to do your A Levels, which I think are equivalent to your SATs, and then they decide which (if any) universities you can go to. You would usually take 4 (maybe 5) subjects for your first year. These can be any you like, there are no compulsary subjects (except Religious Studies if you go to a Catholic college, which you don't have to be catholic to get into) however, if you wanted to do a certain degree, then that might require specific requirements eg. Physics and Maths for a Physics degree. At the end of the 1st year you take exams and get your AS Levels. Then for your 2nd year, most people drop one subject and then take exams to gain their 3 A Levels. 3 A Levels is the requirement to get into university.

You go to uni when your 18 (or you might be 19) which is the same as the US I think. But don't worry about being a year older than everyone at uni because loads of people take a gap year between college and uni so they'll be 19 too.

Aaaand I think that's all . Hope it's a help :)

Wow, epic ramble :P

Answer 2

when you start secondary school in year 7 (11 years old) you do english, maths, history, geography, science, PE, RE, art and technology until year 9, when you choose which subjects to take in years 10 and 11 when you do your GCSEs. you still have to take maths english and science, PE, and RE in most schools, and you choose either 3 or 4 other subjects to take, depending on your school. there will be some new subjects that you haven't studied before, such as media, health and social care, travel and tourism and so on... years 10 and 11 you prepare to do your GCSEs, and you sit the exams in june (or may) of year 11. then you either leave to go to college or stay on at school if it has a sixth form department, and do your A levels. most people do 4 in the first year, and drop one in the second year because it gets a lot more intense. you can't do more than 5 though. you can do a course and get a degree in a specialized field. you can then go on to Uni if you want, furthur education, it's called.

I've just finished school and I got 5 A grades, 4 Bs and 1 C in my GCSEs, and i'm taking 4 subjects at the sixth form college, though they might allow me to take 5, seeing as my grades are relatively good.

if you have any other questions, you can always message me.

hope i helped xx

Answer 3

System???? What system???? If the Englisch had a system those who can wouldn't be fleaing the place for better quality of life elsewhere.

Answer 4

I'm not sure if you want the WHOLE schooling system. So I'll just tell you how the secondary school works.

You start secondary school in year 7 at the age of 11 (born 1st? September 1996- 31st August 1997) and finish in year 11 at the age of 16 (1st? September - 31st August 1992). In year eleven you do GCSE exams, depending on the grade you get (A* is the highest G is the lowest U means unclassified) pretty much decides what job, sixth form or college you can get into.

Since your turning 16 you'd be in going into year 10 in September, which means you'd be starting your GSCE coursework.

I'm turning 14 this year which means I'd be starting year 9 in September and be doing my 3rd SATs (the other two are done in year 2 and year 6). I'm not sure if this is done in every school but in mine the levels you get in your year 9 SATs (levels 8-3? varies for each subject) decide whether you do higher or foundation GCSE's.

After finishing school in year 11 you can decide whether to go to a sixth form (usually part of a secondary school) a college or find a job. Apparently sixth forms are better because some colleges only care about how many people enroll. While sixth forms care about the grade you get.

So this is the order it goes in:

Nursery: ages 3 or 4 - 5

Primary school: ages 5 - 11

Secondary school: ages 11-16

Sixth form/ College: ages 16-18

After that you can go to university for certain amount of years, it depends on the course.

As for exams in a quite a few schools you get exams from year 2 upwards, the major exams are SATs, CATs, GCSEs and A-levels.

Most schools have uniforms, not just catholic schools. At the end of year 9 you pick what lessons you want to do in year 10 and 11. At my school its compulsory that you do English, Maths, Science, R.E, P.E and Technology.

And lastly most schools start at 9:00am and finish at 3:15pm. But mine starts at 8:45 am and finishes at 3:25pm.

The lessons that are usually taught are Maths, English, Science, Technology (Resistant Materials, Textiles, Graphics and Food Technology) and MFL (modern foreign languages: French, German, Spanish etc),history, music and Geography. There's more I think.

There's three major holidays Easter, Christmas and summer. Easter and Christmas holidays last for 2 weeks and summer lasts for 6. There's also half term which all last for 1 week, I'm not sure how many there are. We also get time off for bank holidays and teacher training days (sometimes called insect day or something like that)

Hope that's detailed enough, but it's really long and complicated. My parents don't even fully understand the system.

Answer 5

If your 16 then you must have just finished your GCSE's so your choices now are:

-- To do A-levels (or AS-levels, which are half A-levels and therefore you can do twice as many subjects).

-- To go to college - usually to study a subject which gears you for a real job. (A-levels usually are more geared to getting you to university).

--To get a job

----or be a bum of course :)

Then, when your 18, you can apply to go to university.

Eventually the aim of all this is to get a job which you enjoy and can earn enough money to have a nice life. Go with what your good at, and what you enjoy.