Yep! They sit exams around November, just like senior high school - senior here being the last three years of high school, and junior being the first two (also different from the US, obviously!) We don't use the words "freshman" and "sophomore" at high school, nor even really at uni, as we tend to just call them first year, second year and third year for bachelor's degree students. There's a lot of other differences with school too, no doubt, as Kindergarten here is pre-school (3-4 yrs old) and school goes from Year 0/1 (depending on whether the child starts before or after mid-year) all the way to Year 13. Typically 1-6 is "Primary" school, 7-8 is "Intermediate" and 9-13 is "Secondary" colloquially called "High School" or "College" depending on which is in the name of your school (my kids and I went to the same high school, while my husband attended a different high school, so we've always called Secondary school as high school, but friends who's school was called "---" College, call all Secondary school college! And uni is never called college here!
Always interesting to learn about other countries - we, of course, get so many movies & TV shows from the US, that we've pretty much learned all we need to guess at equivalents there, whereas you would hardly have been exposed to any NZ shows to show much about our schooling!
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Date: 2025-05-12 01:24 am (UTC)Yep! They sit exams around November, just like senior high school - senior here being the last three years of high school, and junior being the first two (also different from the US, obviously!) We don't use the words "freshman" and "sophomore" at high school, nor even really at uni, as we tend to just call them first year, second year and third year for bachelor's degree students. There's a lot of other differences with school too, no doubt, as Kindergarten here is pre-school (3-4 yrs old) and school goes from Year 0/1 (depending on whether the child starts before or after mid-year) all the way to Year 13. Typically 1-6 is "Primary" school, 7-8 is "Intermediate" and 9-13 is "Secondary" colloquially called "High School" or "College" depending on which is in the name of your school (my kids and I went to the same high school, while my husband attended a different high school, so we've always called Secondary school as high school, but friends who's school was called "---" College, call all Secondary school college! And uni is never called college here!
Always interesting to learn about other countries - we, of course, get so many movies & TV shows from the US, that we've pretty much learned all we need to guess at equivalents there, whereas you would hardly have been exposed to any NZ shows to show much about our schooling!