alecbramham
February 23rd, 2014, 03:29 PM
When I was lying in bed, I was wondering how the schooling system worked in other countries. So could you please give everyone who is wondering a rundown of your schooling system.
In Victoria, Australia(may be different elsewhere), we go to primary school for 7 years. Those years are called Prep, and then year 1-6.
After that, we go to high school, which lasts for another six years. Year 7-12. During the last two years of high school, you complete the Victorian Certificate of Education. In year 11, you complete Units 1+2 of your subjects, and in year 12, you complete Units 3+4. You can decide to complete a 1+2 in Year 10, along with your other subjects.
These VCE units get scored from 1-50, and then get scaled up or down depending on how many people are doing that subject. This is to make sure that people who do well in Specialist Maths or German get a better mark than someone who did Business Management (pretty much a memorization subject).
Those study scores then get put into your Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank (ATAR), whichis a ranking of all the VCE students in the state. The highest ATAR you can get is 99.95, because it is a rank of how many students are below you. If you got 100, you would be better than everyone, including yourself.
That's how our system works, albeit in much less detail than we were explained it. It is also very all over the place. Leave a post about how your schooling system works.
In Victoria, Australia(may be different elsewhere), we go to primary school for 7 years. Those years are called Prep, and then year 1-6.
After that, we go to high school, which lasts for another six years. Year 7-12. During the last two years of high school, you complete the Victorian Certificate of Education. In year 11, you complete Units 1+2 of your subjects, and in year 12, you complete Units 3+4. You can decide to complete a 1+2 in Year 10, along with your other subjects.
These VCE units get scored from 1-50, and then get scaled up or down depending on how many people are doing that subject. This is to make sure that people who do well in Specialist Maths or German get a better mark than someone who did Business Management (pretty much a memorization subject).
Those study scores then get put into your Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank (ATAR), whichis a ranking of all the VCE students in the state. The highest ATAR you can get is 99.95, because it is a rank of how many students are below you. If you got 100, you would be better than everyone, including yourself.
That's how our system works, albeit in much less detail than we were explained it. It is also very all over the place. Leave a post about how your schooling system works.