High school lasts 3 years in France. The first year is the same for everybody :

- French litterature : 4h30

- English : 3h

- Another language (in my school German, Spanish or Italian) : 2h

- Maths : 4h

- History/Geography : 4h

- Physics : 3h30

- Biology : 1h30

- Sports : 2h

- And then a speciality : 2h. It can be physics and computer, economics and sociology, biology...

- Options : art, sport, another language... : 3h

 

At the end of the year we choose between 3 courses : litterature (L), sciences (S) and economics and socilogy (ES). I can't tell about the others but in ES the first year is like this :

- French litterature : 4h

- Maths : 3h

- English : 2h30

- Another language : 2h

- History/geography : 4h

- Economics/sociology : 5h30

- Biology : 1h30

- Sports : 2h

- "Speciality" : you choose between maths, political sciences and English : 2h

- Options : 3h

- We also have what we call "TPE" and it's 2 hours a week from October to March. It's work by little groups and it counts for the big exam at the end of high school.

 

Then we do another year in the same course. I don't know the number of hours for each but it's pretty much the same. We already had the exams for French, Biology and "TPE" so we don't have these subjects anymore ; and now we have Philosophy (about 3-4 hours a week).

its a while ago so my memory is a bit rusty :lol:

 

when i did my GCSE's these were compulsory:

Science (as individual subjects or combined)

Maths

English (Literature & Language)

1 language (i think French was compulsory & then could add others if you wanted)

History or Geography (had to include one of the 2. I wanted to do both but the timetable didn't fit in with my wanting to take German)

 

PE - but not for exams, just to get the exercise.

7th, 8th and 9th grade (12-14):

History

Math

Portuguese

Natural Sciences

Geography

E.V. - Visual subject, drawing and stuff

E.T. - technologies subject, so like art with materials and fabrics (just 7th and 8th grade)

Project

Civic subject/Religion sub.

English

French

P.E.

 

10th, 11th and 12th grade (15-17):

 

Sciences Stream: (mine!)

Biology/Geometry

Maths A (the hard one)

Portuguese

English (just 10th and 11th)

Physics and Chemistry (just 10th and 11th)

P.E.

Civic subject/Religion sub.

Project (just 12th)

Chemistry (just 12th)

Physics (just 12th)

Psychology (just 12th)

Informatics (just 12th)

(on 12th you can choose 2 out of the 4: Chemistry, Physics, Psychology and Informatics)

 

Arts Stream:

Drawing

Math B (the easier one) (just 10th and 11th)

Portuguese

English (10th and 11th)

Geometry

Materials and Technologies (12th)

Project

Civic subject/Religion sub.

P.E.

 

Economics Stream:

Maths A

Economy

Geography

Project sub (12th)

Portuguese

English (10th and 11th)

P.E.

Civic/Religion

Project (12th)

Informatics (12th)

4 years of english

um 3 years of math I think

3 years of science?

2 years of history/geography?

1 year of computer, unless you're in certain advanced classes (the computer class is retarded)

1/2 year PE and health both, stupidest shit ever

1 year humanities, or you can take TOK instead (in both you don't learn anything)

 

Most of the individual classes that are required have to be easy so that everyone who doesn't give a shit about anything at my school can pass.

 

and the administration wants to make everyone take 1 AP/IB class before graduating, but I don't think they'll get away with that

But do the teachers take subjects like Health seriously?

Here we do SPHE (social, personal, hygiene education ) until you are 15/16 but it's not examined. So the teacher showed us some videos from the 90's about safety, anorexia and bullying....and I can't remember much else from 3 years of those classes.

 

Oh and CSPE ( civil social political education ) is compulsory for the first 3 years of highschool. But the exam is piss easy and majority of people get an A.

But do the teachers take subjects like Health seriously?

Here we do SPHE (social, personal, hygiene education ) until you are 15/16 but it's not examined. So the teacher showed us some videos from the 90's about safety, anorexia and bullying....and I can't remember much else from 3 years of those classes..

 

Haha that's odd, we used to call it PSHE :awesome:

and yeah, the only thing I can really remember from those lessons was a game we played where we were all given a plastic cup that was filled with milk, but one person had a cup filled with cloudy starchy water.

We were all given a character to play and we had to go around and talk to random people in our class and decide whether our characters would have sex if they where real and if we decided they would we would pour some of our liquid into that persons cup.

In the end the teacher came and poured iodine into all our cups to see how many of them had been infected by the starch water.

 

so yeah it was supposed to represent how easily HIV and sexual diseases are spread around. /cool story

In your third year of high school here there are exam thingys. You have to pass Level 1 Maths, English and I think Science. It's optional to continue them. everything else is optional.

 

In the first year you do everything (rotating between things like music, art, fabrics etc) but in my year you do all core subjects (maths, english etc) and 4 optional subjects. I do Music, Art, Graphics and Digital Media.

At the moment, for me,

-Malay

-English

-Modern Maths

-History

-Moral

 

Yep. Moral. Lol.