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Anonymous wrote:Follow the rules=graduate on time without problems.
Right because we all know that
18-21 year olds always follow the rules.
British students are usually a year older and significantly more mature than Americans
Where on earth did you get this assumption from? Unless they've done a gap year, they're the exact same age as U.S. students.
England and Scotland have different systems. England is 13 years of school (thru upper 6th form) then 3 years at an English university.
Scottish system is the model for the US, 12 years of school from grade 1 and then 4 years of a Scottish university.
"British" really is incoherent in this narrow context.
The US also has 13 years of schooling if you include kindergarten. In England, they call kindergarten year 1 so the equivalent of the US grade 12 is the English year 13. My DD is a teacher at a public school (US definition) in London. She confirmed this for me when I was confused.
If one is counting K, which now is called "reception year" in many English schools, not usually called "year 1", then England normally has 14 years of school.
It is still 1 more pre-college school year in England than is typical in the US. An upper 6th form student in England usually is 19 or almost 19 yo, vice most US HS seniors being 18 or almost 18 yo.
As noted earlier, the Scottish education system is different.