School Exams! British VS American | Evan Edinger & Jack Edwards

Which is harder? GCSE’s or SATs? What about AP Exams and A-Levels? It’s time for a new British VS American about school exams!
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[@evan]

Dang y'all are absolutely living for this video! Thanks for all the interest and support! I'm gonna be filming a video with my token Scottish friend to clear some things up for the angry Scots in the comments and I just invested in an overhead camera rig to film myself taking... a past GCSE paper! Hope you're surviving exam "season:"!

[@eilisminchin1]

You should do Ireland too! On the leaving Cert 👀

[@missallsundayx]

Look forward to the video

[@shanc1532]

Evan Edinger literally have done 11 exams so far , I’ve got 12 left to do in the space of 10 days🥵

[@eleanor1427]

NOW YOU CAN SEE HOW WE SUFFER WHEN WE ARE 15/16 😂😂😂😂

[@shanc1532]

TinyDoughnutElle literally ! Damaging my mental health and no one really understands how hard they are !!

[@thefemaleweszy]

American tests are literally a Kahoot quiz edit: to all the Americans explaining the nuances of their education system, you'd think such 'vigorous' institutions would also teach you how to take a joke

[@sameulahmed2465]

Lmaooo

[@fallenaasimar3878]

LOL 😂

[@fallenaasimar3878]

Were you too fast????

[@trystar-sl1mi]

Lolol

[@Bigdog5400]

Depends where your taking your tests and at what level

[@freezycow89]

Legit I swear if a Brit took an exam in America, they’d be treated as a damn genius

[@dreamerrsss]

True...I agree with that

[@faizalogwell_casual]

My friend who moved to the US is doing basic factorisation in his last year of school

[@freezycow89]

Crikey

[@Lily-xd1tg]

Faizal Ogwell Jesus, if theyre just learning factorising, American high school students would faint if they saw my further maths gcse.

[@nostalgia-2854]

Except the United grading scale are extremely different

[@HannahMcInroy]

"We use pens." "How are they graded?" "...with another pen????" I DIED 😂😂😂

[@BeccaJaneAlderman]

HAHAHAHAHA me too!!

[@charliefern2719]

Same 😂

[@zenko247]

Reminds me of Nasa Spending $10 million ( In the 1960s) on a pen that could write in space in zero G) when asking the Soviets on how they got around the problem , They said "We use Pencils" 🤣😂

[@dylancode]

@@zenko247 It's such a good story... I wish it was true though.

[@epicfail7874]

​@@zenko247not true, NASA only bought the pen for 6 dollars per pen, the pen was made on a budget of 1 million dollars and Soviets bought the pens too

[@Polyglot85to90]

In the UK, SATs are supposed to test how well the school is teaching you. By definition they are of zero use to students, but schools' reputations depend on them so they make them seem more important than they really are.

[@ibbybibby]

Yeah, average grade and in my school your SAT score determines which set you are put in for classes.

[@lou7707]

isn’t that the exam every student in Europe has to take so they can compare the countries?

[@2yeon]

@@lou7707 nope in the UK you take the sat at 10-11 and nobody except your primary school teachers and maybe your high school cares (my secondary school made us take exams at the start of the year and barely mentioned sats) they arent compared since all European countries don't do sats as they have their own rules and regulations in place in there primary and secondary schools (or equivalent schooling systems)

[@precious6727]

In America we have separate tests for that. In the state I live in it’s called PARCC I believe you start taking them in either 3rd or 5th grade, I can’t remember. The older you get the harder they become and then when you enter high school you stop taking them but you have to take a new test called HSA (high school assessments) and if you don’t pass them then you can’t graduate. And then as you probably know we take the SATs in 11th grade in order to hopefully get into a good college although this year and last year most schools have thankfully switched to being test optional because of covid.

[@oscarpeters5309]

that explains why the teachers went around and told you when to change your answer at my school

[@rachelgreenwood6836]

YOU"RE TELLING ME that I had to memorise quotes, characters, important events, structure, etc. of a book, with no cheat sheet and you guys just have MULTIPLE CHOICE ANSWERS

[@lowkeybuckley]

I never personally had a cheat sheet for English class. When we had tests about the book, we had the book with us for the essay portion and we didn’t have it for the multiple choice portion. The essay takes place after the multiple choice part, so either way we’d have to remember everything about the book like you did. The tests usually take my class two to three days because the multiple choice questions have truck answer where it can be more than one but is only one true right answer. Plus we also had matching and had to state what quote belonged to what character. Which is difficult if you don’t remember every tiny detail of the book. The only time I ever got anything like a cheat sheet is a piece of paper with a couple of formulas and maybe two definitions for my math classes. They were no help at all anyways.

[@boulshyte8932]

I took history, omg memorizing every event with the year and duration fml

[@sofh784]

@@boulshyte8932 DON'T I swear trying to remember the names and dates for every single event in the cold war and WW2 almost killed me, I'm sure I calculated I knew 200 dates alone by the end of my exams

[@boulshyte8932]

@@sofh784 😭😭😭 I dropped it

[@ajayannamalai3623]

It mostly depends on your teacher and state here in us of a

[@kyium_]

America: We get cheat sheets. U.K: NO LABELS ON BOTTLES

[@funkyfranx]

Oh my god, so true!!! I completely forgot how dick-ish invigilators would get over labels on bottles

[@yuehagime8302]

Toothless don’t forget how your not able to have the lid on your calculator

[@roche8395]

KYIUM no watches lol 😂 open your pencil cases

[@ferddoesweirdthingsinlife1040]

You also need clear pencil cases.

[@ashaali1237]

LITERALLLLYYYYY

[@daniel_3221]

No one: GCSE exam women: I CaNt TeLL yOu the AnSwER bUt I CaN rEaD tHe QuEsTiOn Ok? .. oK *continues to spit everywhere and not read to you like your 2*

[@lucyclay2724]

Ikkkkrrrr and they split all over your paper and it gets all wet!!! 💀

[@Wondering..]

I HATE THAT SO MUCH, when i was doing my exams so many people including myself asked the teacher for help, and they just said that they would read the question out loud and when i still didnt get it they would tell me to read out loud and think i would get it then, HOW WILL THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE???

[@yogavathanikirubakaran6839]

no this is every teacher in every exams i did its not only the women that do it its also some of my male teachers

[@BubblegumKoi]

Thats just the teachers in the US when you ask them for a hint or something of that sort

[@Mizukisupremaxy]

Americans: These exams are killing me Americans: *Sees Britain. * British: You were saying?

[@thegyloraptor]

@@luffy5246 correct me if im wrong but is the american college the same as British college? As in GCSE/SATs then college then university?

[@lol-bg4wh]

I’m telling u now British exams aren’t that hard

[@kebabz5856]

@@lol-bg4wh compared to USA?

[@lykos..]

@@lol-bg4wh You’re living in a fantasy

[@secretmanPFD]

​@@lol-bg4whive seen you under every comment insisting you have it worse. american school is soft. cope harder.

[@amsalb1354]

wait lemme get this straight for english americans have multiple choice while we have to learn 15 poems 2 plays and a novel without a cheat sheet🤦🏽‍♂️

[@oldlantern4754]

AB not quite. Americans are graded on there performance on every quiz and every homework, in the past three months for English I have analyzed and written a short essay on 2 nonfiction political articles, 2 short stories, three novels (tell the wolves I’m home, the catcher in the rye, and one flew over the cuckoos nest, the last two I read at the same time) created a three part podcast with no rubric, and did an art piece plus essay plus presentation showing my understanding of catcher in the rye. And other stuff like quizzes and notes checks in between. This is for honors English 10 (age 15 usually) all that counts for your final grade in the class and it is very stressful when you have 4 or 5 other classes of similar work load.

[@hannahfarr1852]

AB ikr

[@oppositeofmismatch7864]

Old Lantern sounds like a b tech lol

[@intellectualhybrid2]

​@@oppositeofmismatch7864 XDDDDDDD nah m8 even Btec had more bones than that weak sauce. Take Btec Comp Sci. It's a pussy compared to uni work, but I'll let you compare what Old Lantern said to Btec Business, that shit can be done in your sleep

[@chatshitgetbanned3374]

@@oldlantern4754 Yeah but most Brits have like 10+ subjects/classes at GCSE so it still works out more I guess. I did German, History, Maths, English Literature, English Language, Biology, Physics, Social and Physical factors affecting sport, Art, Religious Studies, Latin and Spanish and the breadth of content means that each subject requires two years to learn the entire course

[@elliejohnstone943]

doing my gcses now and hearing that Americans have basically all multiple choice is making me tear up

[@sebastianmoon7811]

I mean honestly a question would go like this *what year did world war two start?* A. Orange B. Paper C. NASA D. All of the above

[@elliejohnstone943]

Sebastian Moon exactly rip us

[@backupacc8167]

ellie johnstone watching this made me want to move to America.

[@elliejohnstone943]

Dream Candyz can relate

[@whooopsiesssssssss9770]

Yup my problem rn and after my bio exam yesterday m fully done wiv life

[@callmehkatie9518]

I feel cheated with GCSEs. I’m doing 10 subjects with up to 5 exams in each. If there’s any Americans here, let me explain ONE of my subjects: -21 poems to learn, learn all context, background, annotations, and 2 essays on any random ones and some poems we have never seen. We don’t even get the “cheat thing”?? -Macbeth, learn all of the important lines, annotations etc, essay question on any random part of it -Same thing for an inspector calls -Same thing for A Christmas Carol No multiple choice, all 12-40 mark essay questions. -write a letter -write a story And then add all of the other subjects. I’m in pain 😀

[@samcurtis6590]

Same except I'm doin Jekyll and Hyde instead of Christmas Carol. Here we have to write entire essays about the connotations of a word when Americans get *multiple choice*

[@callmehkatie9518]

@@samcurtis6590 we get lucky with one multiple choice on a physics test 🤣🤣

[@mustachioisbae]

You have to learn so much for english man 😭 I dont have as much to learn as you but still. I have 15 poems to learn, the unseen poetry shit, Macbeth, a Christmas Carol, blood brothers (instead of inspector calls), and obviously the 2 really dumb English language exams. Idk if I'm missing something else.

[@callmehkatie9518]

@@mustachioisbae I didn’t even realise until literally 3 days ago that this was only English literature, there’s English language on top of this. I think it’s to do with exam boards, we do Eduqas not aqa

[@mustachioisbae]

@@callmehkatie9518 yeah I do aqa exams for english, at least I get 2 GCSE's instead of 1 I guess

[@stanleycornelius8925]

Hearing that the US don't have to write essays in ENGLISH was actually mind boggling. Literally finished my gcses yesterday and I can't describe to you the pain i went through with English lit and lang

[@toluwalaseadediran9295]

Dont forget the fact that in England you passing depends on how every other person in the country does.🙄

[@mot5919]

It's bad how I want everybody around me to fail

[@giselatipan4884]

I can't believe how true this is and I don't understand why?

[@Antagonist121]

@@giselatipan4884 If 80% of people get 80% in the exam, you can't have 80% get an A*, so you set the grade boundaries to be higher, so you need 90% to get an A* for example. Some exams are easier or harder than others, it's to make sure everyone has the correct grade relative to everyone else

[@giselatipan4884]

@@Antagonist121 I guess is also because of different exam boards=different difficulty of exams

[@user-gy7tp7oh7h]

stupid grade boundaries 😭

[@saff1257]

UK english: analyse word by word, using terminology, structure, plan your answer and include AO1, 2 and 3. also remember 100000 quotes US english: colour a bubble

[@leahj1613]

cheap as chips and here’s one book, one play and one novella

[@oywiththepoodlesalready1790]

cheap as chips and you can’t have the books or poems with you cause you have to have that all memorised

[@liammargetts]

cheap as chips and don't forget the language side of things where you need to write a short story, analyse old text and write 2 of 6 types of persuasive writing, again we won't tell you which.

[@cjbriggs211]

UK English: memorise 15 poems, 2 novels and a play, oh, and don’t forget all of the unseen texts that you have to learn on the spot in the exam UK Biology Paper 1: Bloody Beta Blockers

[@bexter107]

Also me,prise an entire story you wrote just to realise it doesn't fit with any of the titles we provide you with p, have fun

[@jennapercival5383]

Americans: does exam for maths and English Me (uk): does exam for English literature, English language, maths paper 1, maths calculator paper 1, maths calculator paper 2, chemistry,biology,physics,music performance,composition and written, drama performance,coursework and written, art final outcome and a b tec sport exam. Sis bye-

[@ahiliojha6607]

Same here in India. But we aren't allowed to use calculators (not even in competitive exams which are very hard) ...

[@casamity6755]

@@ahiliojha6607 yeah all the science and maths tests for oxbridge uni entrance (uk) are non-calculator (these are also ridiculously hard). tbf though, i take a level maths and there are plenty of questions they can ask you where a calculator wouldn’t even help

[@KMCKLL]

So we do huge exams for those too but they are done at the end of every year in high school for every class you take as well as midway through the year. They usually take about two hours each and you work towards them the whole year with the last month devoted to studying for them exclusively.

[@nahya8723]

RE and Citizenship is mandatory gcse in my school 🥴. I did 3 maths, English literature, English language, the three sciences, geography, German, history and additional maths(half a level and half gcse?). My hand was broken after ✍️

[@amoolakhanshali2972]

I mean that’s just finals and state testing

[@estherowl8075]

Jack: Oh you guys get assessed along the way? Like every piece of work counts? Omg wow I can't imagine that. GCSE students 2020/2021: heheheh

[@goopguy548]

Can't decide if it was worse or better, I had tests for about the last 4 months almost straight, ignoring the holidays, but I also couldn't relax in the holidays because of the course work lp

[@pinkowlcat2125]

Happened for my a-levels too

[@isabellerobey]

One teacher at my school told me about someone in her A level art class and he decided to do nothing for all his mocks and see how well he would do without revising, coursework etc. He failed, no surprise there. Then 2020 came around and teacher assessed grades happened but in the end no matter what the teacher thought he could've got he had to fail because there was no evidence of 'good work'.

[@estherowl8075]

@maus rip

[@puddleduck1405]

hahaha yeah

[@justsomeunicorn9762]

The fact that American students still complain about how hard Highschool is has me miffed

[@_.a.amina_.456]

But then American highschool can be hard depending on the courses you take. Ap classes are meant to be challenging and there exams after you complete the course which are also hard. Also some schools are different so idk

[@rompe-laar]

@@_.a.amina_.456 No one gets retakes or atleast you shouldn't you don't get retakes in job interviews and first impressions

[@justsomeunicorn9762]

_.a.amina _. Damn that makes me wish I was born in America lol. Idk if this is the case for every school but mine didn't make me take geography, our core subjects which were mandatory was science, maths, English and one language. How long do you do you study for for your exams? I'm gonna be trapped in doors revising from Christmas to July for mine lol.

[@_.a.amina_.456]

just some unicorn I study for a long time for my exams when needed and I’m not saying everything is easy in the US schools😂 however it definitely is easier then British schools

[@tyhall9530]

geography is not compulsory in England either

[@TGMowatt]

Learning that a “cheat sheet” is a thing is actually disturbing.

[@littleangpao1322]

Right? Our pencil boxes had to be clear or just carry as many pencils in each finger as possible and theres's such thing as a cheat sheet??

[@shipsarebeautiful]

@@littleangpao1322 in my school, you can't even have that. Legit, you can take ONE thing into the exam hall with you and that is a clear bottle of water with no label. The school supplies all stationary during the exam, because apparently they can't even trust us with our own basic equipment. I get it for maths, since no one is gonna have tracing paper on them and a protractor/compass is rare, but you basically only need a pen in every other subject, which we all have a basic responsibility to bring in yet we're still crossing the line there?

[@brandonbeck823]

US student here, was never allowed a cheat sheet in my four years of high school. And as for the standardized testing like the SAT or AP exams the testing regulations seem similar to British schools

[@samanthal2763]

As an American student I can say that I have never gotten a cheat sheet. It really depends on the school u go to and where u live. My exams are so different then what he is saying

[@WhatDayIsItTrumpDay]

A cheat sheet usually contains formulas that you can quickly acquire while taking tests in math related subjects.

[@bevq2246]

It sounds like american education values complete accuracy and memorisation of the content taught, whereas uk seems to put more emphasis on demonstrating an ability to think around the subject

[@emma70707]

It really depends! All of my AP courses and gifted ("Differentiated") courses were very much about thinking through the problems. Only the larger general ed classes with teachers who we're mostly there to get a paycheck used rote memorization and things like multiple choice for grading. I think largely the problem is that teaching is relatively underfunded in the US. If you're in a poor area and you have huge classroom sizes, it's literally not possible to grade homework regularly (again, graded homework actually matters in the US) if you want to emphasize creative thought because that usually takes 4 to 5 times as long to create and grade as something with multiple choice options. But broadly creative thinking is something that the US values so in private schools and magnet schools, and for the higher-tier classes that are taught by teachers that tend to have their masters and thus are paid better (not taking on a second job) and have smaller class sizes, you really do get more assignments that emphasized creative thought.

[@namk0163]

That’s probably why the British education is a bit more effective.

[@Sam4G0d]

This is by far your best British vs American, because Jack's sarcastic, confused responses are just BRILLIANT. You should film more with him once allowed.

[@madeleineedwards665]

I was always so confused why American high school dramas showed kids never studying but getting good marks, but now it makes more sense lol.

[@waqtiyao8834]

Yh, if you didn’t study and especially when you reach high school and don’t have your credits you don’t graduate and that’s your problem. In elementary and middle school they don’t count credits and not every thing you see in a(n) American T.V show is not the way it’s like. Trust me I wish it was like that. If you ask an American is nothing like you see on T.V.

[@gabblebabbles2017]

I never studied for anything but I usually passed all tests, exams, and quizzes. Except for literally every science class I took. I failed science basically my whole school career because of one not being at all interested in the subjects but also teachers who didn't make it all interesting. Like no science experiments or lab days. Just papers and textbooks for an hour.

[@abishannon]

and when they all groaned and looked defeated when the teacher announced a pop quiz

[@goopguy548]

@Some annoying person that's not true, you need to have a knowledge of chemical reactions and it shows your ability to learn and develop a knowledge off the basis you have in science, atleast that's what it is in Britain

[@HouseMDaddict]

In New York, they have state tests (Regents) and kids takes 2 in 9th grade, 3 in 10th, 3-4 in 11th, and potentially 2-3 in 12th depending on if you continue with math/science. Then you can do AP/IB as well. Those regents exams are scores by people who are not your teachers.

[@drawde_064]

America: Exams UK: you mean year 7 quiz?

[@anna.t._7224]

Drawde_064 literally truee

[@zjewel2348]

Drawde_064 lol

[@annabotham2401]

Deep dive assessment

[@illhelphelpwithautumn1950]

😂 true

[@cian2198]

Oml yes

[@user-vd2jk7dl3p]

Are other countries sitting back scratching their heads? We are over here in the U.S.A taking tests with cheat sheets and we spend an inordinate amount of time in school doing ...well , pep rallies, painting ourselves up for spirit week, getting excused absences so we can go to cheerleading competitions and planning for prom. Meanwhile, everyone else in the world is buckling down. But every year its like "And the Nobel prize goes to..oh ....another American." Is everyone else like HOW!!!!????

[@GMAMEC]

Cheat sheets were worthless for me, especially since the test were timed. You either knew the material or you did not. I usually found that the my instructors made the exams more difficult if cheat sheets were allowed. Furthermore, I believe that there may be a misperception regarding cheat sheets. They were never used for spelling tests, specific math problems, or specific questions.

[@goopguy548]

Because the ones who win the Nobel prize went to private schools then universities who both cost hundreds of thousands in expenses maybe even reaching 1mil. So that's probably why, more money based lol

[@user-vd2jk7dl3p]

@@goopguy548 Disagree. A lot of the most successful Americans come from nothing.

[@user-qp6ts2dp5g]

That’s better in my opinion (coming from a Brit). Children should be allowed to be children, you’re only young once. Life shouldn’t be focused around grades lol

[@shutupworkid9735]

Very large population, significantly more funding and academic freedom. Countries like the UK however still have more winners per capita.

[@Justazraa]

Me a German sitting here like: what is a gcse ? Wha- 👁👄👁 And i feel we and the Brits(?) are similar because in the end we‘re all alcoholics by the age of 15 And praying to god that exams will end. 🤠

[@x6621]

GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) is the equivalent of Mittlere Reife, but you can choose certain subjects and the level of knowledge required is usually at an 18 year old’s level even though you take the exam at 15/16. A level (Advanced Level, sometimes called ACSE- Advanced Certificate of Secondary Education) is the equivalent of Abitur, and it comes after you finish GCSE, but the level of knowledge required for this exam is usually the level of a 2nd year university student, even though you take the exam at 18. It’s very, very stressful.

[@Justazraa]

@@x6621 ahh I see! Thank you so much for explaining! Yeah it really is very, very stressful I have to chuckle when I see some country’s with multiple choice questions.

[@mychemical_sunshine5879]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@marilenapolkehn9062]

Crying in Abitur

[@emilylacey7838]

“No we use pens” “How are they graded” * awkward silence * “... with another pen?”

[@rhiannasaglani7404]

I DIED

[@redbullandspite]

They get scanned lol, blue ink doesn’t get picked up by the scanners

[@matildas3177]

@@redbullandspite All ink colours get picked up by scanners. That's just a common and convenient "truth" that get spread around about many different things that gets scanned.

[@magdalenaarias3753]

@@redbullandspite Blue ink does get picked up by the scanner. I know this because in IB exams, which are also scanned, you have to use blue or black ink because when they scan the exams those are the darkest colors and hence easier for the examiner to see

[@virtualarmageddon6232]

@@magdalenaarias3753 well its not our fault that teachers, examination boards etc have lied to us about blue ink not being picked up by their scanners. We HAVE to write in black ink *only*. This sounds like it's the case across England and I can testify it's also the case in Northern Ireland. Tell them to stop lying to us about blue ink.

[@cathas7454]

The UK be like: So memorise these 15 poems, quotes from a 19th century book, a 20th century book, Shakespeare's Macbeth, 30 or so science and maths equations, these 5 or so German paragraphs on useless topics like marriage in four different tenses, learn the whole timeline of the cold war, 20th century America, the development of medicine from 1000 AD to the present day, the Elizabethan era, about 100 Italian musical terms about structure, melody, rhythm, tonality, intervals, keys, ornaments, whatever else, arguments for the existence of God, and the different views of people on creation and whatever, learn useless calculations that really shouln't need to be taught unless you're doing further maths, and also, we'll give you loads of pointless homework that keeps you up until 2:00 in the morning but then tell you off for sleeping in and not being on time for school, and we'll give you loads of tests that you have to do loads of revision on, so you can lose even more sleep and your social lives, having breakdowns most weeks, because the tests you take at the end of the year define a large amount of your future, and if you fail them, you've completely failed he whole subject, and even passing doesn't guarantee you a place in sixth form or university. But remember to get plenty of sleep and exercise and social time with your friends and look after your mental health xxx

[@idrisahmed5094]

Word

[@theosb9632]

Truest shit😂

[@Joe-hj1ou]

So true

[@t.4861]

PREACH UR FACTS !!! :')

[@jayb7154]

Jesus Christ you wrote a whole fucking essay on the UK education system

[@mrpepero]

When americans see our grade boundaries like “70+ is an A” not knowing they change depending on have my people did well so if more people the did well the higher the grade boundaries and if less people did well they’ll lower it. IT ISNT A FIXED NUMBER.

[@shannon81726]

wait so everything is curved? in america, while the grades are fixed ex. 93-100 is an A, 86-92 is a B, etc. a good bit of final exams are curved, so everyone’s grades are based off the person who did the best. if a person got a 85 and that was the highest score, that ends up as a 100 and everyone else’s are graded accordingly

[@rachaelevans8351]

@@shannon81726 oh yeah it’s kinda like if the questions are harder and they expect more people struggled to get higher grades across the country, then they make the grade boundaries lower to make it look like they’re doing their jobs. My English GCSE was the first year with the number grades rather than letter grades and our teachers warned us they’re gonna give you a more difficult exam so they can give lower grade boundaries and make it look like the new system is getting more people to pass English. But usually a difficult exam year is followed by an easier exam year, but the easier the questions the harder it is to get higher grades - my year for maths a 70% was an A* and a C was 20% but a couple of years before an A* was 66% and a C was 14/15%

[@Lauren-mu9cw]

That makes me so anxious because having a 70 on anything will immediately reduce me to tears I can’t imagine being ok with it 😭😭😭

[@ivylangdon93]

@@shannon81726 Starting my month long GCSE hike in 5 days, basically they have to ensure that 30% of all people who take GCSE's Fail in each subject (30% fail Maths, 30% fail physics etc...)

[@Mr_Horror]

The main reason behind Britain's lower grade boundaries is due to the fact that the UK does harder exams, yes this is true. This explains why 60% is a B, and for America 80% would be a B.

[@aedwards5166]

Fun fact - The reason we have to use black pens for exams in the UK is because blue in won't always show up when a paper is photocopied. Really envying all those multiple choice tests in the states though! Any one know what exams are like in Canada? Are they more similar to the UK or the US?

[@ma_kal]

Both actually. Some teachers will set completely written questions while others ia a mixture of both but that's my school. I don't know about the others

[@aedwards5166]

@@ma_kal oh interesting! Sounds like a nice balance (if exams can ever be nice 😅)

[@ma_kal]

@@aedwards5166 ikr?? Considering canada is the middle child between the states and the uk

[@archiehenderson9529]

In Scotland, it's black or blue, no gel pens (they smudge)

[@nadismolina]

@@archiehenderson9529 in mexico for elementary and secondary (since the government doesn't control high school) you have to use pencil, its all multiple option and sometimes you can find the answers online

[@chinkydetemps4043]

*school shooter is mentioned* “This is the UK that’s not an option”

[@xygenplasma3715]

😂😂😂🤣

[@Kjfletcher1985]

I hope. Yet. Our local primaries are practising their lockdowns so maybe it's not too far off.

[@harleyoyelade9988]

Katie Fletcher yeah my class did it and all the girls were screaming and messing around if it does happen we’re all fucked

[@marianhartley3809]

@@Kjfletcher1985 Every school has started doing lockdown drills. Not as often as fire drills though

[@alphaslash]

@@marianhartley3809 wait when did they start this? And whats the lockdown drills for?

[@bigguy4002]

american kids: "omg exams r so hard" british education system: *"let me introduce myself"*

[@packet4382]

I’m Finna move to America.Theyre gonna think I’m a genius

[@melissavaz4379]

@@packet4382 ikrrrr 😂😂

[@user-gk6nt5gi5n]

@@packet4382 i wish I did this but i finished exams 2 years ago

[@packet4382]

@@user-gk6nt5gi5n how’d they go?

[@user-gk6nt5gi5n]

@@packet4382 fine passed everything with mostly 6s and 2 7s

[@reallifekat]

"you only take 3 or 4 at max" *looks at my 11 AP tests* that was probably a bad idea

[@nothingtoseeherefolks6911]

Did you take them over 2 or 3 years!

[@reallifekat]

@@nothingtoseeherefolks6911 I took the classes in one year, but I ended up spreading out the tests over 2 years because of scheduling conflicts. Some of the tests weren't held in the same place and I couldn't make it to the different location

[@nothingtoseeherefolks6911]

@@reallifekat oh, wow. That’s crazy. How did you do anything but study?

[@reallifekat]

@@nothingtoseeherefolks6911 I didn't

[@ashhabimran239]

I think you should also do an updated version of this with the 9-1 spec, and see how many exams the average GCSE student needs to take

[@bradcoxon6525]

My mate studied Romeo and Juliet for 3 years then wrote about Macbeth in the exam

[@horsenuggets1018]

He's defo an absolute don

[@ethantran8286]

What mark he get? lmao

[@bradcoxon6525]

Ethan Tran He got a U

[@lakishansivakumar6785]

Brad Coxon of course he did. the teachers are so shitty

[@MrGtasan123]

My friend did America 1950 1990 history, wrote about 1920 1950 America for exam 😂😂😂 thank God it was a mock though

[@katiebarnett3313]

not trying to sound controversial but American "tests" sound sooo much easier than the 30 exams I would have had to sit

[@adambarton2864]

Good luck 🙏🏾💯

[@flyingpigacorn6669]

Jesus Christ, 30?! Wtf do u take? I thought I had it bad with 28 exams. Also, I completely agree. The American schooling system sounds like a dream

[@pinkgiraffe378]

Omg ikr!

[@adambarton2864]

Not anymore 😂😂😂

[@CookiesAreNoice]

@@adambarton2864 As an American the schooling system is ok.

[@Lorentari]

For nearly all exams in Denmark you are allowed to bring everything, notes, books, your PC, the internet. When is a "closed book" exam (no aids) ever gonna help you other than for trivia at the dining table.

[@davidsalterego4481]

GCSE History includes 4 periods of time in history (each multiple decades long) that each have a 1 hour essay style exam. All for a single grade.

[@meekotheotter2801]

ik im doing that rn history, the worst part is, for the cold war, they chose all the parts that i dont remember

[@parsnip1]

@@meekotheotter2801 no. The worst part is china if you do it (it’s a paper 2 topic and I wanted to cry in the exam. I’m predicted a 9. I’ll be happy to get a 7).

[@wtfjackaboy]

UK: *three years of never leaving the house or socialising or hAviNg a cHiLdhOoD, learning how to write university-level essays and working out maths equations that shouldn't exist and having a mental breakdown every other week, no guarantee of getting into university* US: *studies five minutes for multiple choice questions well done you're in college now*

[@ashryvern6485]

Twenty Øne Cheers for Sweet REEvenge honestly the UK sounds like school hell but in my us school, most of the upper level students are in college or university level classes

[@davidzeibert1324]

Literally every college requires immense studying, the vast majority of tests are not multiple choice once one leaves high school

[@karissa6560]

Honestly so true, half the time when are teachers provide quizlet for studying, I take like 10 minutes before the test starts, and I'm good.

[@Catani99]

Karissa Nickels What year are you in?

[@bfbvouabeorbvoaervure963]

David Zeibert I studied five hours a day for my A levels. For two years. Every goddam day.

[@WidthTomJones]

*British exam hall* School shooter: *enters* Pupil: Wrong country, mate! Teacher: YOU ARE UNDER EXAM CONDITIONS! NO TALKING!

[@xavigoeswild6827]

Slytherin to the TARDIS Teachers aren’t even allowed in the exam halls lol

[@WidthTomJones]

XaviGoesWILD Our invigilators are the teachers (but not the ones of the particular subject)

[@xavigoeswild6827]

@@WidthTomJones wow, really? I thought everyone had to have invigilators lol sorry

[@tiktokcentre9829]

XaviGoesWILD yea they are 😂

[@realchestro2986]

@@WidthTomJones same in South Africa; we have invigilators but no teacher/lecturer can invigilate his/her module. Physics lecturer will do, for example, Anatomy 🤷‍♂️

[@adam.r3351]

Just to add a side note here; Something that was missed is in the UK in secondary schools mainly; there is general assessments that would take place after big topics to view your progress in each subjects, which would be done throughout the school year and then an assessment at the end of the year for each subject again to show you have understood everything but also to see what sets you would be put into when you went up into your next year. So from year 7-10 that would happen. But obviously year 11,12,13 will have bigger exams which goes towards more and mean more as this helps you get jobs and be able to go too University. However there are different paths for example, What I am doing which is BTEC which I started after year 11 (You obviously have to complete GCSEs though; which I did. They are mandatory) where I started my first year of BTEC which was a Level 2 in travel and tourism which is a little step back before going foward again from an academic point of view. I have DONE a Level 2 in Travel and tourism which is 1 year and NOW I am doing a level 3 in Travel and Tourism which is 2 years; year 1 being just the diploma for basic level 3 then the year 2 being the extended diploma which at the end will mean you have equivalent to four A levels. So BTECs is just more off a specific education that will be set too one industry/job type which for me was Travel and Tourism as a whole industry which in basic means it will cover everything in Travel and tourism.

[@namk0163]

Bro BTECs sound way better, it’s sad how everyone assumes any BTEC student is a set 8. But then again, most BTEC students I’ve seen are a bit thick in the head.

[@adam.r3351]

Thanks for ur reply. I mean fair enough, it’s true there are some out there that are really silly and don’t take the system seriously but then again a lot of people do. It’s been 3 years since my comment and I am now in an amazing job and progressing really well. If BTEC wasn’t an option then I have no idea how I would be doing one of my dream jobs currently and also getting even closer to getting to my ultimate dream job. I work in the aviation industry now and work in Airport operations for context

[@ellah2368]

oh god this is kinda scaring me now lol I was looking into studying to be a vet in the UK (I'm from US), but like all those essays, tests, standards, etc....idk if i'm prepared

[@alphaslash]

Nah you’ll be fine. If you know what you are doing then you should be fine as long as you revise

[@judeh8160]

The exams you take will certainly be hard in the UK, but the harder part will be getting accepted here. Any medical courses are very competitive and the good Universities for medicine only accept the best of the best. If you can get accepted, I'm sure you'll do perfectly well, but make sure to put the work in now by finding practice UK exams online and doing a LOT of extra reading around your subject.

[@siine]

i had to memorize people's names, geographical places, dates of events and america had MULTIPLE CHOICE ANSWERS? bruh

[@haleyhutchinson9353]

It depends on where you are. My history class we had to remember stuff and label it on the map. Had to remember who create what, when was it created and other important things. We had to translate something(I can’t remember what it was) I can’t remember if it was from the Romans or the Mediterranean’s but it was complicated. Also all of our test are not multiple choice. It depends on the teacher. Standard class test teachers can decide whether they want multiple choice. A lot of my teachers did short responses and essays. Test like the ACTs and SATS is a mixture of both. AP exams are usually more short responses and essays. Also all schools are different here. My school was definitely not like his

[@bookdear]

Well, you still needed to know the right answer in a multiple choice :)

[@siine]

@@bookdear you have the answer right in front of you, all you have to do is choose bruh, don't compare yours to mine💀

[@siine]

@@bookdear btw do you just circle out the answer or you've gotta show the working?

[@bookdear]

@@siine haha I'm sure it does make it easier to have choices as a reminder. Also, I've been to school in both America and England (briefly), so I'm a bit familiar with both systems. We get tested all the time with fewer large tests at the end, and you get tested massively all at once. It makes me think that there must be some sort of compromise between the two systems so kids don't feel such pressure.

[@purpl3qu33n6]

From what I gathered in this video a brain surgeon in America could only have the qualifications for a post man in the UK 😂😂

[@arooj7329]

LMAOOO, THIS COMMENT REMINDED ME OF POST MAN PAT

[@abeersyed1250]

@@arooj7329 POST MAN PAT POST MAN PAT AND HIS BLACK AND WHITE CAT

[@arooj7329]

@@abeersyed1250 YESSSSSSSS

[@lavenderaqua2655]

Guess you forgot about med. school...

[@purpl3qu33n6]

@@lavenderaqua2655 no, no I didn’t

[@petecroker]

As a Durham alumnus I want to wish Jack all the best if he's still suffering with exams .... This video was amazing. It has literally transformed every American education reference I never understood growing up ... multiple choice English tests blew my mind! Thank you!

[@maebhnoone5795]

I'm Irish and our school system is soooo different. We have standardised tests every year from 1st/2nd class to 6th class, and then in secondary school you have Christmas tests/week 10s, end of year tests, class tests, and sometimes midterms. and if you are in an exam year (leaving cert/ 6th year or junior cert/ 3rd year) you have your mocks, which are practise exams in January/ February. we also have CBA's (which are new, they were only brought into effect with this years 3rd years). CBA's, or classroom-based-assessments are just projects that you have a set amount of time to work on 9 it depends, anywhere from 4-8 weeks is standard.) So yeah, Irish school is fun.

[@lykos..]

I’m in a British school and we also have end of term tests, end of topic test, end of year tests, tri weeklys. I think may be more? Yeah dude I feel sorry for your. My friends in Ireland and she’s done bio already for gcse in yr ten? I’m not sure what that means, do you?

[@itsgoldenlikedaylight2674]

US high school sounds like a dream Multiple choice ENGLISH Cheat sheets Own clothes Like 3 exams???

[@hichimichanga8405]

School shootings

[@staraspect1118]

Hi Chimichanga balanced

[@urgay9102]

@@hichimichanga8405 worth it

[@kingabrezgiel1436]

imagine doing multiple choice english omg 🥺

[@billiejoness]

Hi Chimichanga I’ll take that deal

[@cakepopzz]

MULTIPLE CHOICE?! NO INVIGILATORS?! CHEAT SHEETSSS?!?! WTF Im moving to America now...

[@f.p1758]

Eh no thanks it'll make me dumber

[@milkandduckrailway323]

haha

[@monval37]

in all the schools that i’ve been to in america we don’t have cheat sheets and we have weekly essay test, meaning that the testing “standard” that evan talks about ultimately depends on your teacher. heck i’ve even had a test in which we had to memorize like 4 pages of a book and write it down word for word 🤷‍♂️

[@m3g4n12]

that must've been for his school bc a different school marks our finals and SATs and we have people that watch us take our tests

[@anchalm248]

We are not even allowed highlighters lol

[@reaganr7518]

I’m from the US and had a completely different experience, we never really go cheat sheets and the majority of in class tests were open answer. I did do the IB dimploma which might have affected my experience though

[@janwb2141]

IB is a European qualification tho isn’t it? I know it’s popular in France and Germany.

[@ahuman652]

@@janwb2141 Yeah I think it is, at my school (public, in california) going for the IB Diploma/classes is recommended if you want to attend a college in the UK or europe. I really wanna do school in the UK, but i’m also not sure, so i’m going to be taking a mix of IB HL and AP classes junior and senior year and yeah taking IB makes your high school experience different. In 10th grade I took advanced classes and for most of them on tests I was allowed to use cheat sheets, but not for my AP classes. So I guess it just depends on the difficulty of the class itself, IB is definitely the most difficult course offered in high school since it’s more in depth.

[@janwb2141]

@@ahuman652 v interesting!

[@queenelizabeth8145]

@@janwb2141 IB is taught in every continent but is european style since it's created there. I did IB diploma in the US as well

[@queenelizabeth8145]

I did the diploma as well but even before the diploma program my experience was far different from his. I've never had cheat sheets and the only exams that had some multiple-choice were science ones. I was genuinely surprised by his experience, I didn't realize the more stereotypical American education actually held true

[@johnmcdonald219]

I'm 50 so it's been 30+ years since I went to school. I remember in primary school we sat with our desks in a horseshoe shape. Half way through primary 3 (8 years old) the teacher took each child individually and did a memory test, none of the pupils knew about this test beforehand. The next day the pupils were told to move their desks to create groups. Unbeknown to me at the time I was part of the second to last group. Over time I realised that my friends, who were in different groups from me, where performing different work from me and getting more time with the teacher. It was extremely difficult, if not impossible, to move up a group because the teachers weren't sure if you would be capable of performing more challenging work, even if you had proved yourself proficient in the work you were doing within your group. The pupils in the higher groups had a distinct advantage going into high school. At high school we were again in a combined class, I sat beside my friend who I hadn't sat beside since I was eight. The pupils were given the same class work but the pupils who had been in the lower groups at primary school found the classwork difficult because we had never been challenged where as the pupils in the higher groups found the work very easy. Towards the end of the first year the pupils were again separated into academic abilties. Unsurprisingly the pupils in the lower groups at primary school went into remedial class and the pupils who were part of the higher groups attended advanced class. My friends who were in advanced high school classes left school with good qualifications and confidence but unfortuantly the remedial class pupils did not. My whole life I've felt like school failed me, not that I failed school, all because the teachers took no interest in me since I failed a memory test at 8 years old. I really hope the school system has changed in the last 30 years.

[@louisaw5969]

Finally getting some credit for all the hard work we do in England 😂☹️

[@laurenj796]

i just finnished my biology exam and it was harddddddd

[@ishuika]

lauren j yup what boards do you do?

[@Jonny_spl]

hey, only a week to go (bit more for some) :)!!

[@hilz______2528]

IKR - live in Australia but very similar to the England's curriculum

[@kaiprice4991]

It aint much better over here in Wales, we got the WJEC beating the crap out of us.

[@neelimaalim]

As if the GCSEs weren’t already hard enough... the government decided to bring out the 1-9 system

[@JoJo-og6nk]

Neelima Alim like me in year 7 with target grade 9 in everything! Everyone who is doing their GCSE’s is panicking saying they are failing like sis imma failll..... might aswell hibernate now!

[@Pholki]

Jo Jo It’s ok, I’m in year 10 and I’m starting to hit 8/9’s already, as soon as you get to year 9 and above you can start getting high grades.

[@JoJo-og6nk]

NightEchoz thnxs. Good to know it is possible

[@maxrides6880]

Yeah don’t bank on your predicted grades , they can fluctuate massively from year to year and subject to subject. Did my GCSE’s last year and got all 11

[@elisesimms3489]

Neelima Alim only good thing is if you get 30% on a higher paper it’s a pass

[@CB-dy1he]

The point about coursework being just as much a part of your final grade as exams is very accurate. I remember I was on track to hopefully get a B in my final maths grade, but because my teacher lost one of my final courseworks but never told me and claimed that I was the one who never handed it in afterwards(yeah)... I went down to a D as a final grade. I wasn’t great at Maths in the first place, but I’m still quite pissed about it even to this day.

[@bambiunicorn602]

It’s so crazy to me (German) that you have to pay for your tests it’s just such a wild thought to me. And in all my school time I did not have any multiple choice test, only now in Uni we have some. And cheat sheets were never a thing here, only in your Abitur which is the last big exam at the end of 12th grade you get a standardized cheat sheet for maths

[@bambiunicorn602]

Also I wrote a Full essay for all my major German exams like we didn’t learn like the meaning of specific words instead it’s more if you can interpret something in a poem or famous books from i.e. Goethe or Schiller

[@parsnip1]

By “cheat sheet” do you mean you got some formulae etc., because we get that in the UK too.

[@jack_edwards]

evan: "when the school shooter comes i-" me: "wAIT WHAT"

[@oletamary187]

oh

[@delicatestyle1330]

How do you only have 1 reply lol?

[@Adam-yu5zj]

You go to Durem University! Nice I’m trying to get into Cambridge because my dad works there. If I cannot get in I’m going to Durem

[@fh4599]

Gallade wanna go Cambridge but you say “Durem” it’s Durham 😂

[@Thea-pt9dy]

Fas huss ikr

[@daisym971]

UK exams are brutal. Before your GCSEs it is a straight month of hibernation when you are revising

[@maisharahman3685]

You revised a month beforehand? I’ve done all my exams just revising the night before

[@ginadonaldson1123]

Daisy M in a levels that month becomes a year

[@foolmeg]

Maisha Rahman me too bro

[@lewisc556]

@@maisharahman3685 last year I expected to revise 3 months beforehand and I literally lost all motivation and revise the day of the exam

[@whybother4156]

We don’t sit GCSE in Scotland when I was at School in was Standard Grades and ints think it’s still different I guess the person who made the video meant England

[@minleeha286]

All British teachers ever said was to always be in a single filled line and it is actually so frustrating

[@jasonsomers8224]

My mind is blown by the single file line thing. The halls at the school I went to were not organized. It wasn't chaotic or anything, it just wasn't controlled by teachers.

[@nylasagna]

honestly think i get stressed just hearing the word “exam”

[@millyadshead-grant1378]

WAIT AMERICANS DON'T HAVE OLD MEN WALKING AROUND THE EXAM ROOM STARING AT YOU SUSPICIOUSLY?

[@mariah3686]

we do lol

[@ashejarvis5957]

Dude, all through my biology higher tier exam this old man at the front always stared at me whenever I so much as looked around the room.

[@arshtewari7075]

@@ashejarvis5957 i feel you dude

[@murdershe......7378]

@@arshtewari7075 Or the slow walk they do around the exam hall, I always got one with a squeaky shoe.

[@TheHesK9]

I had a women with really loud shoes walking around

[@ameliahall6951]

imagine if he mentioned the 10 hour art GCSE or the 15 hour A level art exam lol

[@anabiasaif1433]

Amelia Hall yeet i did it last year for gcse and cried the whole twhile munching on m&ms for 10 hours

[@septicboop2947]

I did a clay project for mine this year... absolute hell

[@realcheesybob20]

15 hours? What do you even do?

[@realcheesybob20]

Or wait do you have to like make a sculpture or painting...?

[@kou3459]

@@realcheesybob20 yes you have an exam book for a few months and then make the final piece in the 15hr exam

[@user-es7ui5mc1m]

Evan thinks 50%, 30% and 20% at university is scary, Germany be like: the final exam is 100%

[@staceyburge8598]

I’m from Missouri and we almost never were allowed to use a cheat sheet. If you had one, it was usually a 4” x 6” index card.

[@vishanthfishy]

The basic UK C grade student could probably be the smartest person in an American school

[@lilyjohnson420]

Vishanthfishy .R I’ve gotta go to America damn

[@thesuncollective1475]

The emphasis is on testing in the UK which as a Brit I always thought was wrong cause its just a memory test ...I'd bulk dump and forget everything after a test US system seems more natural ..it concentrates on Maths and English only gets serious when it needs too.

[@kimmry9406]

@@thesuncollective1475 a lot people know the us system is bad. They generally aren't more focused on maths and english than the brits, as they also don't need to know grammar or sentence structures to strive. Although the uk system uses a lot of memorisation, we still generally apply what we memorize. For example, I applied what I learnt from literary devices to my english lit and language paper, as did many others. And that increased my chances of getting better grades than others who didn't remember much devices. Memorisation can be handy when your put on the spot, and allows you to work faster.

[@-PP859]

WOW I'm American thanks...(¬_¬)ﾉ

[@morganconsoli2830]

Wow y’all that’s harsh nice to see you think I’d be a C grade student 😂

[@ParadoxNerdHLM]

"You guys have 14 exams" No, we're examined in 14 subjects. We have like 30 exams (Edit) Ok, so apparently this blew up. I guess it was more relatable than I first realised

[@mjprice8364]

Ok 1 200 likes 2 I'm really dreading my exams I'm in year 10 and we have not done any of the Yr 9 work and it really shows in our work

[@mjprice8364]

Like in my English most people had 1 or 2 but some had 3 and this guy and I had 5

[@helstok178]

@@mjprice8364 I am feeling so old rn 😂😂 I have now finished university and as such had the old A* - E system. What does 1-9 even mean? Which are good and which are bad? Just seems confusing to me

[@raffie_exe]

@@helstok178 yeah it’s confusing lol. 9 is an a* and a 4 is a c , anything below isn’t a pass

[@helstok178]

@@raffie_exe Wow, okay that is confusing 😂

[@noahpalmer6653]

I'm in the uk and we have 6 sets of exams a year (one is end of years) to assess whether we do well in topics. But I go to a grammar school so it's very focused on academics and a lot of the normal state schools dont do that.

[@sadieblack149]

“you only take about 3 or 4 [ap classes] max” that one kid in my grade taking 7: 👁👄👁

[@eleanor1427]

EVAN YOU SHOULD DO A VIDEO WHERE YOU TRY A GCSE PAPER there are past papers online for most subjects edit: thanks for the likes :) i have never gotten this many before 😂😂 EDIT 2: I KNOW EVAN POSTED THAT HE IS DOING THIS, so ya

[@user-fn1nt1su5m]

aqa english lit and lang, cie extended maths and add maths LMFAO

[@virtualarmageddon6232]

Evan should seriously sit a CCEA English Lit or Language exam.

[@eleanor1427]

Samantha Innocent that would be so hard 😂😂

[@eleanor1427]

Samantha Innocent trueeee

[@isabellafinley5197]

Yes. Yes. Yes

[@jomama368]

Americans: we have a cheat sheet English: cries internally

[@angiolettaantuonette5074]

I’ve been like laughing / crying since I heard about how bloody easy American tests are - like sign me up I’m going to America.

[@alexandrab7215]

Most tests don’t have cheat sheets. Like that was something you had maybe when you are younger.

[@trishalopez3932]

Lol. I’m an American (ew), and yes some teachers in my freshman year were very generous and let us have cheat sheets, but not many.

[@alexandrab7215]

Trisha Lopez yeah, it’s not really that common and we would never be allowed to have cheat sheets for important tests.

[@laurenh3343]

Alexandra B ironically the only time I’ve ever had a cheat sheet was a notecard on a final and no other time

[@tosynariyo2427]

The SATs we do in England are normally taken in the equivalent of 5th grade and for Comprehensive school students, it is generally used to put them in academic sets but for us students in in grammar schools, they basically don't matter; for Grammar school students they are just a formality. They are also only taken by state (public) school students; private school kids have their own internal tests.

[@timbuyoti1198]

In Zambia, being a former British colony, the exams are pretty similar. We have two papers mostly for each subject exam. The first one is multiple choice and the second could comprise essays, one word answers or short sentence answers. That's for the junior secondary leaving exams and the final High school exams.

[@fay-qp7cn]

To top it off, we're NOT ALLOWED THE BOOKS ANYMORE FOR ENGLISH. Had to memorise 15 poems and quotes from 3 novels in one night...Hell still got an 8 tho so its all good

[@mrdictator7030]

... Or you can just take the risk and do a passage question instead of the essay one

[@Omie01]

bye. U can just make the quotes up, lol.

[@tayladawe8451]

I can still remember quote from blood brothers, a Christmas Carol and othello 😭 I took GCSEs 2 years ago

[@princessas7950]

i remembered 2 quotes for like 2 poems and 3 quotes for each book. You dont really have to revise for english. I got a 9

[@TheDropdeadZed]

Didn't have to do it in one night. You had 2 years to do it.

[@mayajoy7248]

I knew the American system was different, but I didn't realise it was THAT different!! I'm in the middle of my 27 written exams this exam season🙃

[@Sushigabby]

when I complain about it exams its only 2 days long cut into half days and they're only an hour and multiple choice ..... i thought it was really hard but hearing about y'all makes me feel like a 1st grader

[@phil-jaywhyte6503]

I'm Jamaican and we basically have the same educational structure as the UK. The most subjects I had to do in one year was 17 and we'd get several tests, projects and presentations every month for each for 10 months, then 34 exams at the end of the year in that specific year. I'm in my last year, about to step out of my 18 final exams, including bio, physics and chemistry because I'm doing 10 subjects now. It's hard in these streets. Americans really have it lucky in that department.

[@maggierowland9914]

Maya Joy same good luck

[@elenamccracken544]

Ikr? I’m in the middle of GCSEs (I have human geography today) and I saw this and I was so surprised at how different America schools work. Sorry if this offends anyone but... Americans have it fucking easy

[@louiseclarke8948]

I had 26 exams with the 2 day art exam

[@uo.2103]

I was just exploring this guy's channel and was absolutely whammed when I saw Jack Edwards in it. Looking so fresh before covid

[@annab4978]

American School system sounds like how British GSCEs were graded in lockdown 😂

[@petersavill5749]

I moved to the US when I was 15. I went from failing maths in the UK to being a Mathathalete and competing for my US school against other kids

[@petersavill5749]

Melissa Allison maybe in Math and Science. I found they were way ahead of me in Social Science and English but that could just be my experience

[@melissaallison2103]

@@petersavill5749 yeah maybe but the american system sounds so much easier than the British system.

[@anonymous-iu4th]

Brilliant

[@aijsdijdni3401]

Melissa Allison Americans aren’t stupid that’s just the public school system. They don’t care about enforcing and encouraging you in your studies, but other schools, such as Charter Schools, Private Schools, and Performing Arts are extremely academically competitive. Same thing goes for college. Many community colleges have people who don’t take things seriously, but then you have universities such as Ivy Leagues that are the most competitive schools in America. It all just depends on the person. The school system is fucked and doesn’t care about enforcing education and leaves it all up to the students to force themselves. It’s very split between intelligence and stupidity, with not really an in between.

[@jasonbyrne8487]

@@melissaallison2103 They did, however, land people on the moon so they're obviously not stupid...

[@BeccaJaneAlderman]

Also in the UK all of our tests, we had to take clear pencil cases to ensure we didn't take any notes in with us to ensure we weren't cheating.

[@twayna1234]

The Caribbean too 😢

[@hasoonnine]

I never used a pencil case, just stored everything in my pocket xD

[@James-yp6lu]

The US education system is very well structured it’s only a shame that the level of education is very low in the system compared to other countries’s education systems

[@chloechan2953]

15:07 "Do you guys have to use no. 2 pencils on everything?" "No we use pens" "Then how are they...graded?" "...?" "....?" "With another pen?"

[@Skyebright1]

Chloe Chan yeah brits and Australians going wtf???

[@ruderalph916]

We write with a blue pen it is checked /graded with a red pen and the principal uses a green pen we can write with a black pen as well it's usually an option but sometimes not

[@Aml_07]

@@ruderalph916 just a quick correction: it changes. Some schools accept black and some also grade in green (although mine tends to only use green for peer assessment)

[@zozoey_0537]

for us we have to use black ballpoint pen because the marking for gcses is like scanned or something and only black can show up properly.

[@ruderalph916]

@Megan Rose we can only write with black if it's +1,+2 (year 12,13 ) or uni but some ICSE schools allow it

[@fran5237]

Multiple choice????? I had to create a story in 35 minutes today

[@missallsundayx]

Memories from GCSEs omg, I remember listing down all the acronyms fo writing techniques so I made sure I used all of them- good luck

[@fran5237]

@@missallsundayx I mean at least it's done now

[@missallsundayx]

Fran says sorry true- regardless, hope you get good results

[@fran5237]

@@missallsundayx Thanks!

[@smackmyassandcallmecharlie4579]

honestly if I don't get full marks in question 5 I'm gonna personally hunt down my examiner and hurt him/her

[@mrstambourinegirl397]

omg how have i just found this now! im English and did the typical exam route and then i went to uni. However, as part of my uk university BA degree i actually went to the States to study for a while. Big up LSU Geaux Tigers!!!! However, i actually found the multiple choice question tests i had to do in the USA much more difficult than the essay type exam questions i was used to. I am so used to analysing and basically talking shit and waffling on, i really did find it difficult to answer multiple choice. However i did get the highest mark in the "Rural Crime in Louisiana" class thanks to it being an essay based exam (that they very kindly gave us a week before the test)- it was like christmas had come early considering we never get to see the exam questions in the uk. :)

[@JacobMaximilian]

Yeah, I'm American and I've always had much harder exams in my classes; I'm genuinely surprised that some people go through school with cheat sheets at every exam

[@niamhkelly6859]

Shows why mental health issues in teens in the UK is so bad, it doesn't have to be the way it is, but for some reason the government feels like it does

[@leilanicatrose3576]

Niamh Kelly Yh like Americans have it so easy!!

[@ivanna3111]

This way does work better it's just more stressful

[@thelorax2908]

I think it's good that they're trying to raise the education standards higher in the UK. They're trying to to make it more academically challenging for GCSE students like year 11s. I mean, look at East Asia. We're stupid in comparison to them 💀

[@stillirise9705]

@@thelorax2908 yes, but their is to much pressure and lots of kids do not cope. European countries don't do it like us and they're near the top of the leader board of education, so they must be doing something right

[@bens1335]

theres no stress it doesn't cause mental heath shit people are bitches now like crying in exams their is no marks for crying bitch

[@Rae-zb1wb]

I swear a British person would do soooooo well in America !

[@hunterm9]

@G Walker To be honest the GED is much easier than the SAT/ACT, and unless you are educationally challenged (most who take the GED in the US are, or they had extenuating circumstances as a child) most can pass it with 3-5 months of study. I'm only basing my knowledge of the GCSE on videos and old exams, but if you have a good memory you are likely to do fairly well. The SAT is multiple choice but it will have more complex problems that require precision.

[@hunterm9]

@G Walker Absolutely, I wasn't trying to make your accomplishment seem insignificant, I was just giving everybody some comparison. The GCSE's sound like an absolute nightmare. Most of the world needs education reform.

[@etebarekteklay8826]

I get good grade on the test and my class works but exam kills my grade.

[@lizzyforsdyke3833]

I'm year 8, I could pass my A.P exams.

[@Aml_07]

@@hunterm9 as a brit the SATs are the most easy test ever

[@carolinaguzman1936]

At my public high school in America there were tons of people that didn’t care and if you did you had it kind of hard. Not all my test were multiple choice and I had like 4 finals on the same day . Also they changed the grading for SATs the year I took it. Majority of my AP classes had no multiple choice questions .It was all written even quizzes. Rarely if ever did we have a cheat sheet. I had quizzes at the beginning of the week and a test at the end of it. Some snobbish teachers gave 2 question quizzes so if you got one wrong you failed this was also a written test with no cheat sheet .

[@chronos5882]

This is giving me flashbacks, I remember specially in maths (they did this for science too) you'd have to write down how u came to the answer u chose and sometimes if u didn’t write them down u'd either just get 1 point for that question or none at all.

[@rhiannonwoonton2381]

relate to Jack saying “we treated our teachers like SHIT” 😂😂😂

[@111111hakar]

The life of a supply teacher is hell on earth.

[@111111hakar]

Not nearly masochistic for that friend, but when I went to school supply teachers may as well have been dogs for the amount of respect they would get.

[@bakeymykakey]

once had a supply teacher storm out in the first 10 minutes because someone flicked a condom and it slapped her in the face

[@EllieJean]

Evan: “Wow you have an exam on a book” Jack: ... Jack: ... Jack: ... Jack: um Jack: ... Jack: that is my whole degree

[@Kub44682]

Yeah I can't stress this enough, it's usually a hobby and point of pride for many British people to make their teachers cry in and/or leave the classroom ... being working class in Britain means you're fluent in sarcasm and irony before you're double digits and if you don't have a thick skin living here.. well people have actually killed themselves over taking comments too seriously ... though that could be because some kids do go too far with their jokes because they haven't learned boundaries

[@someguyusingyournetflixaccount]

Just came out of this year’s (2022) GCSE exams and I’ll update the rough amount of exams based on certain GCSE publishers (mainly AQA and Edexcel) Maths: 1 non calculator + 2 calculator English literature: 3 English language: 2 Biology: 2 Chemistry: 2 Physics: 2 You then choose a humanity subject (geography or history); 3 for each subject A language is heavily encouraged with different schools varying in availability but generally it’ll be Spanish or French; 1 speaking exam + 2 written You have an additional 2 option courses (eg drama, art, design and technology, economics etc) that will vary in every school. Most of these will have 2 exams to do but more creative and artsy ones may have portfolio work compiled from your last 2 years of GCSE and possibly won’t include a written exam at all Personally speaking, I had 19 cause I swapped a language for art but ik others who had up to 24

[@pikahet314]

"that just sounds like your constantly studying" ... Isn't that what school is?

[@souhridyobose4362]

Yes, Americans got it real ez

[@bluexephosfan970]

In the US "studying" is more used to specifically mean preparing for an immediate exam as opposed to generally studying, so a lot of what called studying in other countries would be called just like 'doing homework' in the US

[@sillywatch558]

@@souhridyobose4362 well except for math you usually have to remember everything for math.

[@orlaisntcool7907]

75% multiple choice??? I’m moving to America wtf- edit: MULTIPLE CHOICE ENGLISH EXAMS I- KDNEKAMDBEKSK

[@Tiernan422]

Yeah. It’s really easy 😂

[@ChelCoh]

orla isn’t cool Yeah but in my exams they have tons of writings. Plus the multiple choice goes back to everything from the beginning of the year.

[@l_aura4411]

Chelsea Divel our questions go back to the start of the year aswell, if not the last 2 years and they’re not multiple choice 💔

[@qwertyninjapizza9513]

Yah it’s true I’m taking a Algrabra 1 regents and out of 32 questions 24 are multiple choice! I’m not graduating high school but it’s still a important test

[@Hydratiun]

I’m just wondering if Americans know how to analyse language at all? Like that’s basically all of our English lessons

[@amandavega5359]

As a brit this hurts my heart to see how Americans have it so much easier. I'm tearing up.

[@zenko247]

But how you know why so many voted Trump🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 A term ending in" as Pig S**t "comes to mind

[@gemmacritchison1909]

I love watching this and comparing this to my experience in Australia

[@evasharkey2786]

aSsEmBliEs Jack: “the ones about sexual assault weren’t too fun” Evan: “ours were about rainforests”

[@ilonaestrin5046]

Red Sharkie I’m in America and we had one about sexual assault

[@delicatestyle1330]

I’m in england too. We had ones like jack

[@amymarshall790]

i’m in england and every single one of my assemblies is about crime and rape and littering, they even bring in the police to threaten us.

[@ilonaestrin5046]

Well our ones about rape and sexual assault were stupid. There was this whole thing about tic-tac-no-go, just like tic-tac-toe, which was the three places no one should touch you.

[@nif3853]

Uk English: in a 4 page essay, explain and describe how the mood and atmosphere is presented throughout the novel Us English : colour in

[@nif3853]

Esmeralda Huizar yeah but the majority are where as in the uk you have to compose two essays and write two two page extracts in 2 hours. I think English lit is harder

[@JuliannaK1597]

Honestly when it comes to English, an essay is probably the less annoying way to go. There were constant debates in my classes about one option being "more correct" than the other. English does not work well with multiple choice.

[@samy3936]

Us English: color* in

[@nif3853]

Julianna Kocsis it seems easier though there's like a 50% chance of getting it right

[@nif3853]

Samantha Y us English colour* in

[@pureemma2337]

This has really helped me with my comparative essay for my university course. It's due tomorrow and I haven't had a class in this module in a month. Thank you lmoa

[@zachrichardson7099]

SATs in the uk are used as a measurement for the teacher’s teaching ability, the reason the teachers push you so much for them, it will most likely not affect the secondary school you’re going to unless you are second appealing for a grammar school in either kent or Buckinghamshire. They test comprehesion, maths and SPaG (spelling, punctuation and grammar) and each subject is scored out of 120, not out of 5. The 11 plus on the other hand is a test you can take in either kent or bucks and iff you get 121 or higher (roughly 1/3 to 1/4 of people pass), you can apply to a grammar school which will have better teaching staff and far fewer delinquents for better learning experience.

[@floalice8324]

Brits: so we have to read the whole book , learn all the quotes for any possible question we might get , and write a 7-9 page essay and repeat for two books and a Shakespeare play. Americans: wait you had to read a book

[@fabx725]

We have the same in South Africa. Im about to pack my bags and move to America😂

[@andreagomez9530]

I live in the US and we had to read two Shakespeare plays, a book, and follow it up with all you pointed out; such as quizzes and essays. Plus we had to memorize a quote and present it

[@caramelcupcake1275]

@@andreagomez9530 at least you guys do all that as your going through the course so can potentially get loads of help and teacher bias which is great for bumping up a grade when you don't deserve it. Try doing all that when it's 100% exams at the end of the course, and no participation grades or pop quizzes count, plus you have an anonymous examiner marking your work and no cheat sheets are allowed in the exams.... That's our GCSEs and A-levels are even harder with the new rules. I will say though as easy as the American system of schooling sounds, it seems like a far more effective way of learning since you guys get tests along the way which is better for retaining knowledge in the long term memory

[@lotuswolf1518]

@@fabx725 , in india its much worse

[@fabx725]

@@lotuswolf1518 I doubt it😂 but how so?

[@emilyleighton9817]

Anyone else just wanna go to America so they’d feel really clever ?

[@dominiquewilliams2783]

I'm in 3rd Form in the British WI suddenly not scared for that transfer anymore.

[@atinyblackrose8938]

yeh lmao

[@avah8078]

Honestly if you come to America with an English accent all of us Americans would think you’re the smartest person ever lol.

[@aikaterineillt9876]

Come here and try it then.

[@EricW800]

@@aikaterineillt9876 they're clueless. Let them live in their little world thinking Americans are given answers to their exams.

[@natl5692]

"That just sounds like you need to study " NO KIDDIN That's education!

[@Melisa-xl1rt]

Here in Germany, the education system differs between the states (which is quite unfair tbh, because at the end the certificates are considered to be equal)...A student in Northern Germany only has to take 2 AP classes & a few courses (which are more likely to be easier), instead of that here in the Southern part we had to take 5 APs + 7 extra courses + seminar etc. & the difficulty level ist higher.