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Examinations
The public examinations taken by British schoolchildren are:
GCSEs (the General Certificate of Secondary Education). Pupils
usually take their GCSEs at the age of 16. Some children take three
or four; others take as many as ten or eleven.
Pupils who have passed their GCSEs may remain at school
for another two years and take their «A» (Advanced) level exams.
All grammar and most comprehensive schools have a sixth form,
where pupils study for their «A» levels. Any student who wants to go
to university needs to pass at least two or three «A» levels.
A. Answer the questions.
1. What system of education is non-selective?
2. At what school do children study until they are eighteen?
3. Do you have to pay to go to public school?
4. What school gives you training for a job?
5. What school do children leave at the age of 13?
6. At what age do children take exams?
7. What exams must you pass to enter university?
8. Why do some children take 3 or 4 GCSEs, while others
take 10 or 11?
9. What varieties of schools do you know?
10. In what way do grammar school and secondary modern
school differ from each other?
B. See how well you have understood the British education system.
1. Fill in the blanks with the following words: grammar, nursery,
comprehensive, higher, primary, evening classes, teacher-training
college, grant.
At 5, Nelly Smith went straight to ..... school, because there
were very few ..... schools for younger children in those days. When
she was ready to go on to secondary school, she passed an exam and
so got in her local ..... school. Nowadays her own children don’t do
that exam, since most children go to a ..... school. She left school at 16
and did not go on to ..... education, but she goes to ..... once a week to
learn French. She would like to take up her education again more
seriously, if she could get a ..... or scholarship from the government.
Her ambition is to go to a ..... and become a school-teacher.

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