Brits vs Americans: High School
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- Join Tom and Jeff as they pit the UK and the USA against each other once again, for a deep dive into High School life across the Atlantic, in Brits vs Americans: High School.
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americans: we pledge allegiance ....
uk : GOOOOOOOD MOOOOORNIIIING EEEEVERYOOONE
Ughhh sooo true
@@kellyclark8668 I think it's common in other countries like in india we have
morning prayer,
thought for the day,
singing National anthem in the assembly.
What is it like in UK
@@ashishjoseph4710 not the worst but its definitely something "different"
@@ashishjoseph4710 we don't do anything like that, we just do school like normal, i don't think we ever really talked about our country unless it was in geography/history or something related, schools are very anti nationalistic in the UK and we're taught to appreciate a variety of places and not be stuck up our arses about our tea land 😂
I loved wearing a uniform because you didn't have to think about what to wear every day
same. in my school if you had your socks pulled up too high you’d get terrorised 😂
cantbelieveitsnotbutter bruh In my school there are 2 big rules don’t button up ur blazer or clip In ur backpack if u could otherwise u getting bullied lol
Pt.Bourbon who the hell buttons up their blazer anyway? 😂
cantbelieveitsnotbutter you’d be suprised
cantbelieveitsnotbutter Who wears their blazer? It should of been in the bottom of your bag screwed up.
lowkey want to see Americans complete gcses and alevels to see how they can cope...
I live in the US, but I have to take A levels for the program I'm in. I flunked my history last year🤣🤣, so I had to retake it.🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
Nigel Marvin I did the SAT online and I hadn’t done any maths in 2 years and got 1200🤷🏼♀️ the maths was hard bc I hadn’t studied it in years but the English was fine.
@LauraDoesGacha _ they do their SATs when they are GCSE age and we do them in year 6 (10-11) so they're not the same
Sameeeee
@Ginger most of what you've said isn't true. English students still have to do exams during the term, some that may factor into your final grade at gcse/a-level. Coursework has been phased out for most subjects now, but when I did it about 40% of the overall grade was coursework based and then a final exam. Almost all subjects are multiple exams in a very short period of time for gcse. Maths is about 3/4 exams, English is 3/4 again, Science is 9 exams! Overall a 16-year-old student could have upwards of 20 exams within 3 weeks. All of which are now 100% of your final grade. From what I've understood the SAT only covers core subjects and maybe even only English/Math. Also no multiple choice exams in the UK ever. GSCE's and A-Levels only run for two years unlike America where they go for four years. This again makes it harder as you are only learning the content for two years. A-Level can actually only be one year and an exam for an AS grade.
The passing grades are generally lower in the UK as the exams are harder and there is a maximum pass amount. Only X amounts of students are allowed to get the top grades which means the grade boundaries can change very significantly between subjects. If lots of people are getting A's in Art then there will be a high percentage needed but likewise in Advanced Maths there is a smaller amount of people achieving A's so the boundary is lower.
American style education vs English style is known as Breadth vs Depth. Meaning that Americans will cover a wider variety of subjects (think Calculus, Algebra, Trig) whereas English will study fewer subjects (Maths) but in far greater detail.
Definitely dressed as a year 7 with that back pack
Hahaha! Oh my god that's so true! And the older you got the less you carried too, I remember one day I cut a hole in the inside of my blazer so I could put my Journal in and a pen and sometimes a pencil, I don't think I carried a bag on me for my final year lol
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😂😂😂
21samclarke 😂😂 Imma end up doing that to then one day
@@21samclarke I literally just carried everything in my blazer including pens as I was too lazy to take my bag off. I remember that we had a planner that apparently we had to use. In year 7 most people used it but by year 11 I had it stuffed in the bottom of my bag and forgot about it.
Ikr
When Americans think houses are just something J.K. Rowling came up with like no we had to actually do that shit!
Exactly
You looks so cute both of you 😍
@Brian Morgan what with their 7IQ I bet u can't even tell me what it means
@@JDSports12 7IQ means
Bro
I definitely knew it was a real thing that the insufferable TERF didn’t create, but I assume you aren’t all assigned houses based on your personalities, are you?
Who remembers getting really bad back pain from science lessons?
darn schools forgot to pay for the full chair
Damn those stools!
@@deliciator855 Those stools were the entire reason my history teacher thought I enjoyed her lessons because I was always first in the class all because I needed to sit down on a proper damn chair! They were like mini torture devices!
The gum under the table
Faceless Queenie omg yes 😂😂😂
'I feel like a drunk businessman', summing up basically how we drink a shit ton in high school
Shh dont expose us 😂
If you had your tie that short at my secondary school you'd just live in detention
They tried to combat this at my school with clip on ties but people would have them stolen straight of their necks and then you would still end up in detention 😂
7 stripes
@@niamhduffy2012 fam same thing happens in our school😂
I feel you. In America, well at my school. We wear uniforms to and if you don't got that belt. They would do multiple options. Take one of your shoes and/or your phone and give you a belt. You return the belt than they give you your phone. Call home. ISS or OSS. (OSS is really rare). Or if your really lucky they would just tell you to go to the office and get one yourself without humiliation whatch is really rare. Dont forget that belt fam.
@@niamhduffy2012 that was fucking fun to be fair. But the fact I found that fun just goes to show how boring school is in Britain.
Why do Ameriacns have a flag in all classrooms like do they think the kids are gonna forget what country they're in?
because we are patriotic. yes, we know most countries think it's unfashionable to love their countries but we still do. unless they're under like 25 and think it's cool and woke to hate on their country.
They don't. Only some schools do that.
@K Brodini, being patriotic and being cult-like are to different things.
@K Brodini, I see your point, and some people really take it too far, but a lot of us are okay...I hope. 😬😬
@K Brodini, I agree. It seems that our most ignorant are the ones that speak the loudest. A lot of us are more self-aware, but, of course, there are those that refuse to see. They prefer to live blissfully ignorant. I mean, it is kinda weird that kids at my school, considered it an honor to be able to raise and lower the flag at school, and I remember they rewarded us for learning the pledge when we were 5. I have a question. Does your country have anything like the JRROTC, or is that just us? It is like for kids who want to go into the military. They have uniforms, drill, etc.They also shoot blanks from a canon at the football games. Do y’all do something similar?
Wish he’d mentioned how Americans only have to do 1 4hr exam at the end of high school whereas I had to do 21 exams for my GCSE’s and 9 A-level exams which weren’t multiple choice like the SAT’s are😂😂
Some high schools especially California got rid of that exam
People have to do 4 hour exams?? Finals usually last a whole week
wtf
Alpha Solo yeah we also get like end of year exams etc. I heard that the SAT was a four hour exam with breaks?
Abbie Rose oh you’re talking about the SAT. Being really honest that exam is optional but it does help with getting into college. I have yet to take it but yeah we have breaks bc it’s not good for you to be sitting for 4 hours straight.
You mean ‘secondary school??’
ikr
Yesss
We call it high school where I’m from😂
exactly
Yaaa
This is English school tho schools in the other nations are all really different
Scotland has a completely different exam board and qualifications. I think that’s what they mean
Erin O literally all I thought throughout this haha xx
@Joe S my school it supposed to be posh?
Erin O yep we have SQA (Scottish qualification Authority)
My school had eight houses. All named after London guilds, we had the entire rainbow with the addition of pink and grey. The school used its name (old and current) and postcode to pick the houses. I was a Yr10/11 house prefect which was essentially glorified babysitting for yr7.
Ours were named after mountain ranges in primary and in secondary its people who have conquered everest
that’s cool! i’ve never heard of a school that does that. what school did you go to? i go to grays convent in essex and because it’s catholic and all girls we have 4 houses and they’re named after important women in the bible
SnEAkErHEaD I went to an ‘all girls’ school. Although it was a comprehensive academy and generally agnostic with some Christian influences.
@@sneakerhead6625 in Manchester the school I went too yr 7 was split into 8 different groups, then from year 8-11 we were put in to 4 houses based on tree names and each year had 2 forms in that year so it would be like 8E1/8E2. The numbers had no baring on aptitude it was just year 7 forms picked at random, as to which house 1st out was 1 the 2nd 2.
SnEAkErHEaD in my school we had four houses and i think they are named after important families who were connected to the person who set up the school.
I went at a British school and the teachers got drunk at my year 11 prom 😂
Um
do all the teachers go to prom? i have it this year xx
@@katesweeney98 for high school, only like 10 or less. Most can't be arsed 😂😂
@@katesweeney98 I supposedly have prom this year as well (but for college) and I don't think it will happen but I have my fingers crossed 🤞
Who spiked it? 😂
You should have told him the suffers of GCSE !
- the month+ long of exams
- learning 15 poems
- 3 books + extra 2 for drama
- literally everything in history from 1200 to present day
- chemistry, physics, biology and every equation in existence (multiple exams)
- 10 hour art exam
- 2 hour business exams (plural)
- maths.... don't even get me started
- 3 language exams
And those wierd rules on our exams like only writing in black ink
(That's only a few things btw not everything)
I feel you.
I’m a American & jus graduated HS ... the shi u jus listed would have KILLED ME like I’m not even joking I probably would’ve died of stroke
I am Indian and I am shitting myself after reading this
In french you basically have to do 4 exams lol I'm probably gonna fail but oh well
dont forget the whole of romeo and juliet word for word
Differences in schooling:
UK - feels like you learn nothing in geography
US - actually learn nothing about geography outside of North America (even then, pretty sketchy at best)
Some Americans couldn’t even say where America is
In America, while we learn American history, we also learn world history in school as well. While there are some Americans that do lack knowledge of geography or history outside of America, many are knowledgeable. I’m tired of seeing this stereotype. In fact, I don’t know many Europeans that could name more than 10 of the US states that aren’t California, Texas, Florida or New York. There are uninformed people everywhere that lack knowledge of the histories and geographies of places they are not accustomed with. Please stop spreading this stereotype.
where tf did u get that lmao. in world history 2 and AP world history, you learn about the WORLD history. nothing about america. then as a junior you take U.S history which is just U.S. use ur brain big guy it ain’t too hard
Cookies n Creamer it said nothing about history
Maddie M we wouldn’t be able to name states but at least we can name countries
As an American we did the shirt signing thing on field day, but that was in elementary.
Ok so someone got new shoes and had people sign them...Obviously I put my name on it but LIKE-
OH LETS NOT FORGET THE TIME SOMEONE DIDNT GET A YEAR BOOK SO WE SIGNED THEIR SKIN SHALHEOWBSN IT WAS AMAZING
What's field day?
@@emmacheese6107 omg you don’t know what it is. It’s a day where it’s about to be summer and the teachers just don’t care. So everybody puts on a picnic thing with waterslides and chalk and it’s amazing. (It’s like two week before summer when nobody cares any anymore)
@@RedBlueberryAnimates field days were the best
Me: Sees title
Also me: Lol roadmen
Simran Parmar innit 😂
I'll mess you up bruv
@@lepidxptera lol
I wonder what the American equivalent of a roadman is
God Penguin FTW 11 year olds with shotguns
Scottish schools are different again from England and there are major differences within Britain as a whole, I imagine wales and NI are different again
Herman Sanchez Northern Ireland is simular but some differences
wales use different exam boards too
SnEAkErHEaD Yeah Northern Ireland has a different exam board and still has the A to B system
It’s really annoying how they just presume we do the same qualifications
in Northern Ireland we have a different exam board but still use the English one for certain GCSEs. Also something which I don't get is that in England first years are years sevens?? but in n.i high school you start off as a year eight?
I can’t remember who said it, but there’s this quote that says “Twilight is better than Harry Potter because Twilight is more relatable and realistic” or something like that, but in England Harry Potter is more relatable because secondary school, without the magic, is almost exactly like Hogwarts. Like imagine Hogwarts but not in a castle and with Maths and English rather than Potions and Transfiguration, and with GCSE’s and A levels rather than OWL’s and NEWTs, that’s British secondary school.
Edit: Also blazers instead of robes, but that should be obvious.
ecusameh harry Potter is amazing Harry Potter is life
Rt. I love the harry potter universe my favourite concept its animaguses
I live in the same town JK Rowling was born in! And we have guilds just like Harry Potter Houses aswell as guild points!
Americans really out here complaining about multiple choice exams, while we're suffering with GCSEs and A-levels. Like wtf?!
yh im british but i took my sat so that i can go to uni in the us and literally the first time i practised (no revision) i got 65% right
however their grade boundaries are way higher
Multiple choice are broader, while essay is deeper
@Craig 75, I am American, and we don’t get credit for raising our hands, some of us do sports and marching band instead of gym, we don’t get told exactly what will be on the exam, we don’t get cheat sheets, I have only gotten to use a textbook once, not all of our exams are multiple choice. The rest just sounds like unnecessary stress on your school system’s part. Our exams can last up to four hours, and you sound like an outsider looking in. We take several exams for several reasons. It is not my fault you don’t get a Summer break, so stop acting like our lives are so easy in high school.
@@sneakerhead6625 you do know that mean you was 1 question away from failing, right? im mean yeah thats passing but in the usa 65% mean your very close to failing
Sorry, NO that tie is still tooooooo long 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I don't understand these tie comments. School I went to, only the girls wore them really short but it looked absolutely fucking ridiculous on guys 😂😂
Chris I am a girl in the uk that goes to high school we keep our ties like normal size
Our ties have to be at least 7 stripes
@@bangtan809 never knew that jungkook is bananamilk
@@mrzmaker2243 lol jungkook likes banana milk. He isn't banana milk 😂
You have to wind the tie round loads of times and then you dont get the long bit
Or just tuck the long bit into the hole between he button of your shirt?
@@melissafernandes4052 but then it sticks out a bit from your shirt and looks messy
And stick a 50p in the knot so you don't get strangled by someone
@@melissafernandes4052 also the more you wind it, the fatter it looks!
@@lucya3359lol getting peanutted.. those were the days! 😂
I'm Scottish, can't relate. Our schools are different than English ones. But seemingly the internet doesn't know that. Scottish schools don't have reception. We don't have GCSEs. We don't have sixth form and we don't call it "Year 1" etc.
Do people in Scotland also have 13th class in higher secondary???
Ashish Joseph we have a 13th year in school yes, but don’t call it year 13 or 13th class. It’s s6 (secondary 6, 6th year in secondary school, which is high school). Although, you can leave school at the end of s4 at the age of 16, which would be the end of the 11th year of school education including primary years.
Americans: We pledge allegiance to ....
Brits: GOOOD MOOOOOOORNING MISS SMIIIIIITH
Wow thanks for all the likes 🙃🙃
And all the replies 🙃🙃
GOOD MORNING EVERYONE
@@mattyrobinson3851 it's AND EVERYOOOOOOOOOONE not good morning everyone. Or at least in my old school
In primary school for us it was GOOOOOOOD MORNING TEACHERS GOOD MOOORNING FRIEEEENDS
Oh I remember this!
In our assembly's we would start it off with Good morning whoever was doing the assembly then we said Good morning everyone
UK: Private School is expensive, Public school is REALLY expensive
@Paola Ramirez no don’t know what he’s on about
@Paola Ramirez what😂
@@poriccrompton What Americans call Public School is known as Comprehensive or State school in the UK. If you talk about "Public School" in the UK, you're usually referring to the upper echelons of private school, examples being Eton and Harrow
@@JamesLindsayUK in Wales we call ordinary school public school and then paid schools private
@@poriccrompton en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_(United_Kingdom)
I’m an American and I don’t know what multiple choices y’all are taking about. Not every state is the same., my state it’s 93 to get an A and no multiple choice
I don’t know what 93 means, percentage?
@@poriccrompton 93% for an A
Exactly I went to a college prepatory school so everything had to be university level from the start.. so stressful but then in college I never studied 🙌 and was on honor roll on the first try..depends on the states your in and everything...each state has its own rules on how to teach and so do schools
School in Scotland is so different to England
I agree. You would get bullied for having a fat tie here
reception to year 6: primary
year 7 to year 11: secondary school
year 12 + 13: sixth form- but you can do stuff like apprenticeships here
I was waiting for a comment like this. Is there an equivalent to technical school? We attend high school until around age 18 but can also attend a concurrent technical program for trades such as mechanic.
Sam O after a google search, there are University Technical Colleges, which are usually for ages 14+, i don’t know of any personally, but most secondary schools offer at least wood tech, and my school offers engineering
Eleanor this is scotland (or at least what I grew up with)
Nursery- before primary 1 and you don’t have to go
P1- P7- primary
S1-S6- secondary
Then we have free uni
Lauren Rodger ooo thanks, i didn’t know how school works in scotland- you’re lucky with free uni tho
Eleanor yeah, I’m surprised they don’t have that in England tbh
Having gone to both English and American schools, this makes my heart so full....
Isn’t high school in the U.K. called Secondary School? I never went to a ‘High School’
Some ppl call it highschool and some ppl call it secondary
That does make sense. Thank you
I'm Welsh and I call it comprehensive school
They didn’t describe schools in the UK, they described them in England (and Wales I think). The school system in the rest of the UK is completely different.
who misses school? 🥺🥺(british ppl ) xx
edit: i wrote this when we were all in lockdown, i am still at secondary ahah:)
hell naw
no
Very depressing is schoool
Primary school was alright
@@Raguzz i use to HATE primary, until i saw the shithole that was secondary
I'm not from the uk but thats how we wear our uniform ties as well. I was DYING when he described how to tie the tie
Wish Tom was at my school
Same
same
Up in Scotland we have nursery, primary and secondary
English here, we have Nursery/Pre-school, Reception, Primary then Secondary
Americans: we plead allegiance...
Brits: GOOOOOOD MOOOOOOOOORNIING MIIISSISS TEEECHEERRRR
Pledge*
But: 😂
SATs are literally so easy tho 😂. Americans should try taking an A Level.
true😂😂😂
@@rachelmay674 It is hardly a belittlement. As someone who has knowledge of both, American exams are a walk in the park compared to A Levels. Granted many students will still struggle with SATs and their struggle is valid.
Ginger But it’s all multiple choice! I rest my case
@Ginger so the UK tests are harder but a lot less hassle but American stuff is easy but requires a lot of effort. I'm keeping the UK option, I hate coursework.
Ginger
If you’re going to make a comparison between the US and UK, you should take into consideration that the English education system is very different from Scotland’s, wales and Northern Ireland. For a better comparison you should only include years 9- 13 as that’s the equivalent of American high school. If you were to do that you’d find that many A-levels require coursework and mocks that count towards getting accepted into university. You’d also find that a lot of people may have a job to save for university as well.
Also generally speaking it is harder in England to get a higher percentage on a test than most states in the US as it involves more content to learn.
Not only that but nobody expects someone with only five GCSE’s to get a well-paid/ respected job (at least nowadays). I’m pretty sure it’s the law in England to finish A-levels and most people go on to university or a course that will help with their future job.
Not only that but GCSE’s in the past 3 years have in fact gotten harder because of the new grading system so your statement:“it was once the case UK exams were very tough” is incorrect.
Next time try not to be so condescending and patronising when “educating” someone about a specific topic. Especially when you failed to compare the two systems accurately so you are also a bit “clueless”.
For a word of advice, please do not group GCSE’s with A-levels, they are two completely different levels of difficulty.
Hope this helps 😊
This one was just lovely. Funny, friendly and finally directly addressing the mind-fucks I went through with a sibling 14yrs younger than me and obsessed with american tv such as Hannah Montana and High School Musicals (films I know) etc. Witnessing the creeping infiltration of "high school" when we're British: IT'S SECONDARY SCHOOL near broke me.
The part they fast forwarded thru is what I came here for....Thanks
At my school in the US, we would do the signing of shirts on field day. Those are usually in elementary and middle school.
My high school is known for having the best prom in the states. If I hadn't gone to that school, I probably wouldn't have gone to prom...
i had over 50 hours of GCSE exams americans don't know
Today would have been my last GCSE exam. Lowkey sad I’ve missed out on the experience but hey I’ll take it
@@CarpeDiem-vc3gq The "experience" lmao wtf dude, we got out of our GCSEs and you're complaining about it?
BaconLondoner Idek what I was thinking. Our school did the English Lit GCSE in Year 10 and that was hell.
@Brian Morgan How? I mean most roads in America are straight. That's why you can go much faster. As for signs, you just don't understand them because don't live in the UK. I could say the same about your signs being confusing. Most American cars don't even have gears😂😆. Ps, you drive on the wrong side of the road😃
That’s because we do not put everything on one exam at the end of the year they do the same thing in India and it doesn’t make any sense. They test you periodically throughout the semester with quizzes and test to go towards your grade you do not have an end-of-the-year exam That is pretty much the only thing you need to study for. Plus it’s disgusting that a kid at 14 or 15 Have to pretty much decide if he wants to go to science route or the arts route. And that’s based on the score he gets an exam that’s utterly ridiculous
British school is literally crazy, those hi vis vests from teachers, teachers with full on radioes, small benches in primary. Gosh
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Need a part 2!
SAT’S tests in England just decide what sets you are in secondary school and they are in the summer of year 6.
Whereas 11 plus is when you take a test and if you pass you go to a Grammar School which is stricter and they push you more but if you don’t pass you just go to like a state school secondary school which is a little less stricter.
i think they’ve made post-16 education compulsory now.
Yep
Nope, not in Scotland. I'm turning 16 in a few weeks and I'm leaving in July.
Not in Scotland
@@Cal_lum lucky!
@@josephmurray1513 but your national animal is a UNICORN 🦄😍😍😍❤❤
We had the different colour houses in my primary school but for some reason they were never used so i have no idea what the point was🤷♀️🤷♀️
Krystallovesroblox 2006 They were only used for sports day.
@@Wannawatchthis5555 Not in my school, the last one we did we represented different countries (for some reason.) But everything went into points and whichever house got the most points. Sports day was just a part of it but i never remembered the houses having a big part of it.
laughing from Scotland which is sooo different from England
I love how he skips from fourth to sixth grade while counting.
i go to a catholic all girls secondary in london , england and i get annoyed that i don't get to have the normal secondary experience but its kl.
its mostly just extravagant rules about clothing , piercings , hair styles , nail length below certain amount of cm , long skirts , no phones , makeup, not being able to take off blazers without consent, plain black coats ect.
we have to start each of the 5 lessons of the day praying the 'our father' towards the cross in the classroom (sort of like the american pledge thingy.) and end every assembly with a hail mary. there are masses every month and have liturgy reps (liturgy is public worship) who walk towards the alter and do jobs such as that. we have nuns who live in the school and often learn about st angela ,the founder of the ursuline(the teaching of girls). besides this its just a school tbh .. fighting over boys and whatnot , many lesbian couples , loud hallways.
but the one thing love is that everyone comes together to serve one god , there are many nationalities and ethnicities there such as polish , nigerian , latina , jamaican, filipino , spanish , indian and there are even atheists and muslims there who choose not to say the prayers.
however there is a 6th from (basically college) on site which is of mixed genders , there are even trans students , and often just walk through the school while girls fangirl over them
ANYWAYS hope ur educated i guess
Same I’m 26 now and after going to uni I realised how different catholic schools are. Stay strong!!!
Tom & Jeff make a good team. Tom's on so many videos! Remind me of a Storror team-member. You should try the theatre-very descriptive.
In my secondary school we have houses to it’s based on the most popular forests there are: Mercia,sherwood,Arden,Dean. The colours of the ties are : purple,green,red,yellow.
Americans really complaining about having to do a MULTIPLE CHOICE test :((( I wish our GCSEs and A Levels were multiple choice
not all of it is multiple choice, and just because its multiple choice doesn't make it easy, because you have less than a minute per question on average
Alex Bernius The only subjects I would see as being difficult as multiple choice is maths and some areas of science. That being said, I’d much rather have a multiple choice English exam than have to do 3 perceptive essays and a come up with a story in 30 minutes.
Alex Bernius in gcses most subjects there is approximately 1 mark per minute, for example in geography you have to write a nine marker in nine minutes which is like 3/4 of an a4 page
I HATE MULTIPLE CHOICE. You’ll have to read everything v e r y carefully. The words would be the same but one small period or comma could change the entire thing...
A AA well during SAT there’s also a writing essay portion that is optional but highly recommended if you want to attend college because it’s a requirement at many schools.
There’s also a test called the ACT and you can take this exam instead of the SAT.
Wrong! It can be either the SAT or ACT. It depends on the state where you live.
Yeah the curriculum in each state is different. In NYC you take the regents to get high school credit. You can take the ACT or SAT for college admissions. You can also opt to take AP exams in high school.
I’m from AZ in USA and my middle school had houses! I was in house 3 & the house 4. Middle school was 8th & 9th grade.
We only did pledge of allegiance from 1st grade to 6th grade. We signed each other’s shirts from 1st to 9th grade. In high school we had year books
4:47 I had that in primary school. Except it was named after famous London monuments. I was in the blue house, which was called Trafalgar (I was house Captain too) and I think the yellow one was Piccadilly, there was also green and red but I don't remember what they were called.
“I feel like a drunk business man who drank too much “
nO dUh ShErLoCk
The Scottish education system is different and even more confusing so please also do a video on this!
okay so a lot of people are talking about how Brits have it worse because of gcses and alevels. We have the SAT, ACT, AP exams, and in New York there's also regents. Ap exams and Regents are not just multiple-choice and for the SAT there's an optional essay but some colleges require it.
Tom talking about school brings me back to the good old memories. Except uniforms
Me : I’m a Brit and we did a year book
Also me : slaps forehead
Please do one explaining GCSE's to him! It was when he was going on about the 'several hour exam' and it was like yeah, we do that... 27 times over the course of 4 weeks!
in the USA, SATs is just one exam. there are also mutiple exams/finals involved. thats just the one people talk about.
@@amyleigh6515 Yeah, but don't you do all of this at age 18 just as you leave high school? In the UK we sit the GCSE's I mentioned in Y11 at age 15/16 and then have to do the whole thing again with our A-levels in Sixth form at age 17/18. 😂 😭
Helen Banks There is no specific time for someone to take the SATS. It is probably best to take it late Junior year (age 16/17) or beginning of Senior year (17/18). It is important to take it before applying to college Senior year because most, if not all, colleges require your SAT score.
GCSE’s also aren’t multiple choice questions like SATs.
Most of the time, you have to write out essay style answers to get the most marks. For maths, you have to show your “workings out”. Aka, you can’t just write the answer down, you have to show how you got there.
Then there’s also practical “exams”. Exams that aren’t exams exactly but are ones where you have to film, perform, speak etc in front of an examiner or teacher to get your marks. I had a practical “exam” for: Business Studies, PE, Design & Technology, Media Studies, Spoken English and IT.
For some GCSE’s you can have them early but only in specific circumstances like my Media Studies class. All the others (which is a lot btw) get done at the exact same time as everyone else, over the course of several weeks.
The only blessing from this is is that GCSE’s end early before the summer holidays so you finish earlier than every other year (meaning you can take the piss out of every other year that still has to attend lmao).
@@maddiem2727 yes but no one's forcing Americans to take the SAT at 16/17 year's old unlike for GCSEs whereby most pupils have to take them at 15/16 year's old.
To mess up things. Before 2020, we wore uniforms M-W-F, we wore non-uniform during T-Th. We're mixed up. We carry backpack during 1st to 4th grade then fanny pack (Americans)/bumbag (Brits) until graduate at 10th grade but soon the gov't added two-year burden to accomplish until 12th grade.
GCSE is not even the worst. Our exam is at the end of every month. All stuffed in one day, 8 subjects, minimum 200 items, no multiple choice, 100 for identification, 90 for modified t/f and 10 essays and sometimes one or two literaries but the worst are novels. Tight rule like no ERASURE is technically wrong and sometimes minus point.
gcse is actully hard
English system is:
Reception and then you go from year 1 up to 11 (compulsory). After that you go to sixth form which is also known as year 12 & 13 or lower and upper sixth. Some secondary schools have student from 11-16 years old which is year 7-11 and some have kids aged 11-18 which is year 7-13.
If you go to a secondary school which ends at year 11 and you want to continue your studies you can go to a separate school called a sixth form college which will specialise only in years 12 and 13. This is where college comes in and this is often more relaxed where the classes aren't mandatory and you don't have to wear uniforms.
They didn’t even mention AP classes and exams. Those make you wanna pull your hair out
Especially with the way collegeboard handled THAT SHIT this year🤧😖
From what i’ve heard from AP classes, they seem to be on the same caliber as normal (and mandatory) classes in the UK. We have a national curriculum may I add, but american schools create their own curriculum. But our curriculum is harsh and mostly does not take into account students with learning difficulties until you reach the later stages of secondary school (This may just be from what i’ve seen in my school).
@Treavor Alvardo fr lmao
@@icanphotosynthesize1962 no that is not true at all. AP exams are extremely difficult. They are comparable to A level exams. I’d say AP calculus BC is harder than A level maths because AP Calculus BC IS literally all Calculus. And AP physics is also harder than A level physics because there is no calculus in a level physics but AP physics does. It’s so hard. But I agree A level biology and A level chemistry are more difficult than AP bio and AP chem since there is more content especially organic chemistry.
My school's houses were named after tors on the local moorland 😂
When he started the pledge of allegiance all i could think of was the prayer they start with in the purge movies. 😂
To experience graduation is wonderful, it's like a rite of passage from one stage of life to the next .
The main difference is our children don’t get shot at school in the UK.
God damnit don't fucking start with that shit
QWERTYOP80 truth right here
ig but what about stabbed😭
bish wahtt what do you mean
Kate Crossley i do and im from the uk
In my school we had colour groups (Red group, Blue group, Green group, Yellow group) but that was in nursery and reception. In my high school now we have set and tutor groups. the set groups are set 1, set 2, set 3, set 4. 1=Smartest, 4=least smartest. The tutor groups are groups we go to at the beginning of the day for 15 minutes until 9am. They have names but i wont get into that 😂
same with mine
Here in Catalonia, we have the PAU (Proves d'Accés Universitari, which stands for University Access Tests). Which are sort of like the S.A.T.s but you only have to do them if you want to go there, it is not mandatory after high school, and, you can even go to college without doing this exams, if you've done a superior grade of professional formation which we call: "Cicle Formatiu de Grau Superior". Oh! There's another exam you must do, even if you did professional formation if you want to get to an education related college, which is called the PAPs (Proves d'Aptitud Personal, which stands for Personal Aptitude Tests).
Oh! And I could explain how the education system works in my country but you'll might get a bit confused. So I'll leave it there.
Nice video!
Best regards from Barcelona!
Left school over a decade ago (excuse me while I feel old) and I still miss it. My school houses were Angel (green, named after the Angel of the North), Baltic (red, named after the art gallery) and Tyne (blue, named after the river)
Those are amazing house names.
I feel like you must be from the north east with those house names?
@@caitlynwandless8339 indeed
My last day at school (Yr 13) I think at least 65% of my year group were plastered which made for a very entertaining awards ceremony with them all stumbling down the stairs 😂
I thought all British schools had houses? The two I went to did, but I only remember them making a big deal about competition between houses in the second one
Omg the middle part! Hahahah. Our trauma! 🤣
I mean you've just described Year 10
LMAOOOOOOO MY HEARTEU
I’m Scotland it’s a whole other thing 😂
For real. 😂 I'm American, but I lived in Northern Ireland for a bit and was super confused by the education system there so I had someone explain it to me. So I thought I had the education system in the UK figured out, but then I moved to Scotland and it was completely different. 😅
You guys and the Northern Irish really like to be different from us, huh?
AksLeMec no wonder
With so many ginger people in Scotland how do you know who to bully?
In 2013 they changed the law in england, now you have to stay in some form of education until you turn 18.
No you don't your a minor untill 18 i think but i knoow s9mepne who is working after faing thier gsce's at 16 and can't go on untill 18
10:50 it looks great but for some reason, it’s giving me the funeral memorial picture look, with the sky and clouds. And I didn’t get to have a picture like this when I graduated. I didn’t grow up in the U.S. but it was just a normal blue backdrop upper body picture.
I'm from the Caribbean and our schooling system is similar to the British. Our primary school is from kindergarten to grade 6, and secondary school, which is high school is from form 1 to 5 (i.e. grade 7 to 11). So we finish school at age 16.
Right now I am in college for 2 years getting my associates in business administration. I'm in my last year, so I will be finishing at age 19 and I find tht rlly cool😎😊.
PS. I wore uniform but it was a dress. In primary it was a dress and shirt with socks and shoes, and secondary it was a dress with a belt and sock and shoes.
Lol me in Jamaica going "yes yes that's exactly right!" Just former colony things teehee😋🌸💞✨🌈💖⚡❣️
For the uk school he should have worn Nike Air Force 1s
Having graduated from high school, I can confirm SAT sucks, I left mine only a few questions in XD. I then took the ACT and it was much better!
I always liked the uniforms because we were all seem as equals. And I agree with not having to chose your outfit everyday.
"everyone would just sign each other shirts" idk if it's just me , I live in Texas so obviously I'm American. In every school I went to, we would also sign each others shirts on the last day of school but we would also sign each others yearbook-
round of applause to those that passed their IGCSEs, we all know they made ours way harder than the GCSEs. if you know...you know
Cool video! Do you have more with comparisons between USA and UK?
You now have to stay in education until 18 in England (not sure about the rest?), it changed several years ago. My Primary and Secondary school had "houses" of red, yellow, blue and green.
No wayyy even I had those colours
Me, having flashback while watching this: Oh, no.
I want an American to go into a high school in the UK for a term to see if they will cope 👀
I have a question about U. K. schools. Can you answer it? Are grades the only thing that determine if you go to university? I would love to know.
@@avalonsignoraalmas6150 not always the case as a high school student I dont fully know but.. I did read that even if you have bad grades you can get into university, possibly not the highest one but yh
@Nina do I know u, ok. Thanks. I was wondering how it worked in the U. K.
@Brian Morgan I was joking and I wasn't talking about how smart they are I was talking about the people cause with road men, yr7s and chavs loud Yr9 🤨
@Brian Morgan oh and btw my school and I know other schools dont act like they're in cambridge or oxford because this is a high school not college
This is what we mean by Americans not taking jokes .
I’m watching this 2021 and I’m in American high school and most of this stuff has changed 😳 thats crazy how fast it’s changed
4:38 it could also be castles, depending where you live. If you live in wales, you'd have a castle as your class name (usually primary school) the last primary school class I was in was dinas bran, just search up the Welsh castles.
Why in America is it called a yearbook when you use grades
It’s a book summarizing the school year. 🤔
It’s the school year
The fact that any GCSE student always hopes someone has to die during the exam says alot 😂😂😂😂
I don't know where Jeff went to elementary, middle and high school at. But I am 50 yrs old and my son is 28 yrs old and we both went to public schools and had book fees and sports fees and other "class" fees. And high school is by far the most expensive. My son majored in Art and photography and that 1 class alone cost me 300 dollars a semester. And we lived in 4 different states while he was growing up. Everyone of them charged fees for him to go. Just like my school did growing up. Oh we may not have had school uniforms, but we had to have sports uniforms for Physical Education (P. E.) Class. If not you flunked/failed the class right off the bat.
I wore a school uniform all my life living in the U.S., but most uniforms aren’t as formal as theirs. Neckties/bows look different depending on gender (girls can wear any form but have more variety), are optional, and are mainly worn by elementary schoolers who are probably forced to wear them by their parents.
Did anyone remember the songs that the singing teacher used to tell us to sing assembly like,
Jump up and give yourself a thumbs up
Or like
If you’re feeling sad and weary and you’re down in the dumps down in the dumps down in the dumps if you’re feeling sad and weary and your down in the dumpster there’s something you can do!
I hated that come on!
Omg I completely forgot about that second song!
Me: wow you had one 2-3 hour exam! I had 21 exams that ranged from 1-2.5 hours long!!!!
Things are different than how it is said we actually have much more than the sat, the sat is 2 weeks long, about 24 hours of time, but the big ones are the state test every state is different but mine it was 3 week test that's was 84 hours
No we don’t have just 1 exam we have so many finals which is equivalent to gcses.
I’m not sure if it’s different in each state, but in CA you can skip taking the SAT or ACT if you plan on going to a community college after high school. The community colleges don’t need those scores because they take in all applicants and, of course, when you do transfer to a university, you get all your GE’s out of the way and usually the core classes of your major. Cheaper and better option all around, in my opinion. A lot of people I knew that went to a 4 university straight out of high school ended up going to the local community college after failing their first semester. But again, I cannot confirm if it’s the same in all the U.S. states, I only know from experience of living and going to college in California.
My school didn’t have ties, we wore green polo shirts from year 7-9 (black blazers and trousers/shirts) it’s red in years 10/11 (navy for prefects). It’s non-uniform for sixth form too