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[(Anonymous)]

Since we're on the subject, how does the Australian school system work? Grade names/ high education/ living on campus?

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

We have primary school (grades prep-6 (started at 5yo ended at 12)) and secondary school (years 7 to 12, you finish at 18). Prep has a number of different names in different states. Secondary school used to have 'forms' instead of years, which went form 1-6, which you might also hear depending on the age of the person you're talking about (my mother still uses forms). Secondary school is increasingly referred to as high school.

Tertiary education is generally TAFE or University. It's rare to live on campus; most people live with their parents or move out to live near campus (it also depends on where you go, most are pretty central to big cities). At least at my university, there were a few residential colleges that could be lived in, but most people who lived there were from the country/a rural area, or interstate. I think in my six years of university I only ever met maybe half a dozen people who lived in one of the colleges.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, I lived in the colleges and it was 99% rural and overseas students.

[(Anonymous)]

You usually go to pre-school at about 4ish (which you go to for a few hours a week), kindergarten the next year, after kindergarten year 1 etc (though i'm pretty sure they don't have kindergarten in queensland, and maybe another state too). year 1 - year 6 is primary school. year 7 - 10 is high school/ secondary school. years 11 - 12 is college/senior years. most people i know when to a different primary school, high school and college because they're usually separate schools, but i happened to go to a private school that went kindy to year 12.

we call university university. some people go straight after year 12, but a lot of people take a 'gap' year, usually working for a few months then travelling. if you move to a different city for uni you would usually live on campus, but not necessarily. i would say living on campus doesn't seem to be as big a cultural thing as it's portrayed in american college movies - there's definitely social things that happen through residences, but it's not unusual for people to live in share houses instead from their first year of uni and not feel left out of the campus experience.

frats/ sororities aren't a thing and i still have no idea how they work at all in america, lol. individual college residences might have reputations for being 'fratty' or whatever though. it's also not unusual for people to live at home for a few years if they go to university in the same town they grew up in - whereas it always seemed to me that moving out of home for college is portrayed as a rite of passage of sorts in america, correct me if i'm wrong.

all in all, not really that different.

[(Anonymous)]

Ha, see my reply above; we obviously live in different states if I call prep what you call kinder (I went to kinder too, at 4).

I find it very interesting that you separate out secondary school and 'senior/college' years - I've never seen that before. What state do you live in? I'm in Vic.

Interestingly I did go to a school that was 7-10 and then a different campus for 11-12, but that was absolutely NOT the norm in our area, we were the only school that did that. Ever other school went 7-12, except for a couple private ones that were prep-12. I thought the split at my school was very unusual, lol.

[(Anonymous)]

Weird. I'm in ACT so maybe it's a Canberra thing? The Catholic and private schools here mostly go 7-12 but I'm actually struggling to think of a public school here that is 7-12.

[deird1]

Yep, I'm pretty sure that's a Canberra thing. Everyone I've talked to with that school system is from the ACT.