In Japan, school year begins in April and ends in March. Also, students usually wear uniforms up until high school.
This is a picture of my high school's class room.
In Australia, school year begins in January and ends in December. Like Japan, students wear uniforms as well.
Also, one of my friend from Sweden told me this interesting fact in Sweden’s college system. He says school system in America is very different from Swedish system and he thinks it’s very confusing.
According to him, first of all, school tuition is free in Sweden.
Second of, Swedish college students take only one class at a time. Students take one particular course for about a month, take exam and pass it, then take next course for a month and so on.
He says he doesn’t necessary dislike system in America where students take several courses at the same time for about four months.
I think this system in Sweden is unique.
In Japan, people call four years of college life is a summer vacation of your lifetime. Literally, it is very easy to graduate in Japan. Instead, we all have to take this massive entrance examination to get into college. No matter how you did well in high school, if you fail the exam then you cannot get into college.
Also, students take up to about 24 credits per semester. This describes how easy to take classes in Japan. If I take 24 credits in America, I would die of homework.
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