Thank you! I share the same hope, now If only it was reality.
1. Ok, British school system is odd, it depends a lot on your age, compulsory education is up to when you are 16, you take your GCSEs (general certificates for secondary education) At the moment I study A-levels, these are two year courses after the GCSEs you need before applying to Uni with the results. (You can also do college courses and stuff, but it gets a bit complicated there) You do choose what you want to study, generally in ok schools is 4 subjects for the first year of the course, and 3 the second. Me in my insanity am doing 5, and planning to do 4 next year (if maths doesn't decide to fail on me that is :)) Each of these subjects has 3 modules, each having a separate exam, most of these are at the end of the year, a couple in January (you can also do coursework)
2. You can take orals, depending on your subjects, that is if you are studying any languages other than english you have an oral exam. There are a couple of practical ones for the sciences and music and art, but most are purely written.
That is probably entirely too much information, but you did ask :p!
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Date: 2004-06-07 08:35 pm (UTC)1. Ok, British school system is odd, it depends a lot on your age, compulsory education is up to when you are 16, you take your GCSEs (general certificates for secondary education) At the moment I study A-levels, these are two year courses after the GCSEs you need before applying to Uni with the results. (You can also do college courses and stuff, but it gets a bit complicated there) You do choose what you want to study, generally in ok schools is 4 subjects for the first year of the course, and 3 the second. Me in my insanity am doing 5, and planning to do 4 next year (if maths doesn't decide to fail on me that is :)) Each of these subjects has 3 modules, each having a separate exam, most of these are at the end of the year, a couple in January (you can also do coursework)
2. You can take orals, depending on your subjects, that is if you are studying any languages other than english you have an oral exam. There are a couple of practical ones for the sciences and music and art, but most are purely written.
That is probably entirely too much information, but you did ask :p!