American Reacts to REAL British High School Curriculum

Today Corry shows me what a real British high school curriculum looks like in Scotland! I am still surprised!

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If you're new to my channel and videos, hi! I'm Evan Edinger, and I make weekly "comedy" videos every Sunday evening. As an American living in London I love noticing the funny differences between the cultures and one of my most popular video series is my British VS American one. I'm also known for making terrible puns so sorry in advance. Hope to see you around, and I'll see you next Sunday! :)

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[carolynbennett]

As a woman, I have no idea where Evan's joke about a period being 3 days long came from. If my period was 3 days I would be in heaven.

[alishajai]

The Scottish school curriculum is still a huge difference from England.

[really-quite-exhausted]

Corry's comment about not knowing the names of maths things is SO TRUE. I was at *university* before I knew what calculus was. I mean, I knew what calculus was - I had been doing it for several years previously. I just didn't know that it was called calculus!

[aimeea]

All the english people complaining about how Scotland's system is different lol, now you know how we feel when everything 'uk' related really means england

[kate]

As someone who lives in England its fascinating to see how different Scotland is!

[definitely.natasha]

School in Scotland is COMPLETELY different to school in wales. I had no idea.

[rebeccanewton]

Okay I need a part 3 where you talk through the Welsh or English curriculum coz I didn’t realise how different they are from the Scottish one!

[vuraxis]

The Scottish system is amazingly different to the English one damn

[TammyJRizzo]

When I was about 13, my dad took a job that brought my whole family from Texas to the Netherlands (Holland) for about a year and a half. I had just been in middle school when we kids were pulled out for the move, with only two weeks remaining in the school year. When we got to the Netherlands, we had a couple of months to get settled in before school started. I had a total of around a dozen classes my first year in the Dutch school system, and perhaps 14 starting my second year there, when we moved back to Texas. I started my Texas high school career as a sophomore, but I already had enough credits that I could pick nothing but electives for my junior year (except for the mandated junior English), and at the end of my junior year, I had enough credits that I only needed to take one semester of a mandatory senior class before I could graduate at the end of the first semester of my senior year, with credits to spare. I got my diploma and everything, because of coming in as a sophomore with the equivilent of 16 credits.

And it was all because of the number of different courses I took in the Netherlands. Each weekday had a different schedule of courses, and even a different number of courses each day, including four different languages (Dutch, French, German, and English) and four different math courses (as in geometry, algebra, trigonometry, and beginning calculus, though I had to show my counselor the kind of problems I was doing for her to identify the courses--I knew what the names were in Dutch, not in English), plus a few other things like health, home economics, music, physical education, art, and I seem to remember the list being longer, but that was four decades ago now. Anyway, the counselor who was helping me get placed for classes was amazed at the class load we had been doing, and told me that "we don't do classes like that until college!"

All I knew was, even though I had to struggle to do my classes in the Dutch language over there, I still felt like I learned more over there than I did "back home" in Texas.

[gracetorrance]

I've always thought the British vs American series is really just English vs American because the way we do stuff in Scotland (and wales I'm sure) is often so different so it's so nice to see Scotland properly represented in one of these videos :)

[missnaomir]

As an English person, I was basically reacting the same way as Evan to the Scottish system. I did not understand it at all

[louisebedford]

In England our GCSEs are each separate qualifications, so I finished high school with 11 GCSEs which is 11 separate qualifications. I am currently doing 3 A-Levels but you can do 4 and drop one or fully complete them. We also have EPQs which is a research project which equals half an A-Level. We used to have AS Levels which you only did for a year which were also half an A-Level. Our A-Levels are also separate qualifications and we need them to get into university. Universities will have set grades like ABB which they want you to achieve in your A-Levels so they will accept you.

[mrz]

As a British High schooler, watching Evan react to the weird stuff that happens in UK schools is the funniest thing to me

Edit: Okay everyone is coming at me for calling it high school and not secondary. Bro it depends on where you are and what school you go to because where I am you can call it either damn /hj

[bremCZ]

The idea of a highschool diploma is stupid. Explaining to people that you pass subjects rather than pass "school" often gets a real light bulb moment when they understand how much better it is to be able to go to University based on your knowledge of the subject you're studying rather than being rejected from studying Physics because you failed Spanish.

[harriet]

Post-16, you have to stay in full time education until you're 18, and in England, it's either A levels (mostly academic), B-tecs (mostly vocational) or an apprenticeship. And in England, the usual amount of A-levels is 3, but some people take 4 (its difficult), and I know one person that has taken 5 A-levels!

[lottie]

the “asked to leave” thing is because (i’m not sure of the detailes) once someone is expelled it makes it MUCH more difficult for them to go to a new school than if they were “asked to leave”

[aislajspence]

As a Scottish high schooler (currently in my last year) I’m happy to see someone talking about Scotland’s system of schooling bc I’ve only ever seen English school system being talked about on YouTube! 😂

[janani]

For alevels the amount you can currently do is technically five however that's only if u feel like torturing yourself...
Most schools won't let you do five but the majority let you do four- they just discourage it cos it is hard

[JamieFrew]

One thing I'd add is you can continue to add to your SQA qualifications after you leave school. If I decided to do a college course in my 30s and I got an HND that would be added to my SQA results from school. I recently did a short course for work and it's been added on, in effect it's a lifelong learning system.

[amethystjean]

Now that I see how you are taught all the different types of math as one it makes sense how you call it maths plural.