@@ReyJ I think it's a bit older than that, when I was in first year they had curriculum for excellence and that was about 6 years ago. I think they had just brought that into place though because as it seemed, no one knew how it worked
@@LaurenSpaceTV the new exams as they are known now have only been going on for a few years (3/4, depending on how you count). That's why when you look up past papers, there is discontinued Higher and advanced higher, and then the new higher and advanced higher, which only have three past papers each, as they have only been going on that long. The new curriculum for excellence change meant that H and AH qualifications are worth a lot more now than GCSE, AS and A level.
@@ReyJ ah okay, I mean maybe the didn't have the exams in place when I was in first year bc y'know in first year you don't really do any important tests. I just remember when I started was when they changed it all to National 5 and all that. To be completely honest I don't remember
Basically... Nat 5s - slightly harder than GCSEs Highers - easier than A Levels but done over one year not two Adv Higher - university level course, harder than A Level
ALA_Legend 02 well I mean they are according to actual content and how universities view them. Maybe your cousin thought that because you cover things that we don’t and vice verse and you do more exams, but GCSEs in terms of actual difficulty are in between our nat5s and nat4s (Nat 4s are an easier version of national 5 with no end of year exam)
Cameron Beattie maybe the actual content is easier, but the exams arent they are a lot stricter with the marks and they are quite often really time pressured, english and history in particular
ALA_Legend 02 I guess I’d agree with that. For history in Scotland (at Higher) we have to do three essays for the first paper, which evens out at about 45 mins for the long essays and 20 mins for the shirt one and i found that quite difficult to finish
Ikr. Now it's still a little different Nat 4 - no exam unit tests 5- up to 7 exams Nat 6/higher - up to 5 exams Nat 7/advance Higher (kinda like 1st year of uni) - up to 3 exams
@@rimideol3738 I like how u explained this in one tiny comment but they took the whole video and still missed out literally everything hahahaha (love them both though 😂)
Emory-Ephraim Docherti no it’s not SAAS makes it free because they pay for you. It’s not a student loan (on a separate note you can get a loan from them that you need to pay back)
Nebulix Network no, there’s more GCSEs, but they’re not as difficult. I’ve taken gcse maths and gcse further maths and it doesn’t even compare to national 5.
@@arcadianico yeah but with alevel when going to a scottish uni, you can skip first year there, so it turns into a english 3 year degree so Highers can 't be alot harder than alevels, I only have experience with alevels though so... meh. (source : doing alevels and going to a scottish uni (second year entry)
In the English Exam this year (I’m a third year) we had to write about “An issue we felt strongly about” and about 90% of people wrote about how awful our system is
But you don’t need advanced highers to get into uni! We use our higher results to get into uni so uni offers require 5 grades because you take 5 highers! :)
I went to the University of Strathclyde to do a chemistry degree and we had to take like a first year maths class, which I had a B in advanced higher and it was around 80% - 90% of the stuff I learned in advanced higher before, so you don't need to do advanced highers to get into university but they could make you skip first year more in the sense that you already proved you have that knowledge, it might be different for different subjects but I don't think it is since it set by the SQA. I also had to biology and physics in my first year for a reason I didn't really understood since they never really corrolated together. You don't need to do the advanced highers to get into university and just do the higher courses but in some sense it gives the admission workers a sense of you could have a better understanding from other people due to this. It just kinda gives you a slight leg up but once to get into university everyone is on a level play field and no one has an advantage, its more helping the person get into university and that's about it. Saying that I only had advanced maths a highers on the rest of the subjects, so it only really helps if you have advanced highers in multiple subjects related to the degree you're applying for.
@@tenma353 If it was me you were talking too, I did two maths and chemistry. For an MChem course at the University of Strathclyde, you need 3 advanced highers of maths, chemistry and biology/physics but since I didn't do a second science so I entered first year.
EmmaDraws mate, as someone who is in 6th year doing advanced higher I am qualified to say that you literally can’t do AH in S4. You HAVE to complete nat 5 and higher first and you aren’t legally allowed to sit nat 5 until S4 so stop trying to smart you twat 😊
A huge thing that I think is great about the Scottish system is that if someone wasn’t ready for Nat 5 maths or failed it, they have two more tries to redo it. So in a nat 5 classes there are often s4s, s5s, and s6s. I just think that that is so good because it’s a big advantage to have particular Nat 5s so people that struggle in school can still get it over even three years if the teacher thinks it’s the right thing
On SQA marking - Teachers choose to do it, and get paid extra. They have to do a training course I believe to learn how to mark the exams. And they aren't allowed to get papers from their school. Also everyone in Scotland does the same exam at the same time as we had one exam board for the whole of Scotland.
Just to describe the newer Scottish system as someone who went through it from 2016 - 2018 In 4th year you can choose between National 4 and National 5 in the different subjects. When appropriate, people can also sit lower National’s (2-3), but this is usually for special cases with additional learning needs. A National 4 is below the standard of a GCSE and the National 5 is regarded as the same level or higher depending on the subjects. For most National 4s there is no end of year exam so your grade is fully reliant on course work and tests through out the year. For National 5s, you usually sit at least one exam per subject but also have the course work and tests for the National 4 work to fall back on if you don’t pass the National 5 level. After 4th year, you can leave school or stay on to 5th Year. In 5th year you sit “Highers” which are just below an A Level. If you sat National 4 in some subjects, you can sit National 5s in them in 5th year instead of Highers. Highers tend to be made up of a portfolio and a final exam, although the format changes depending on the subject. The results of your Highers are the grades that your university application usually relies on, allowing Scottish students to gain “unconditional” entry to their University course if they achieve good grades. If you achieve the grades you need, and don’t want to sit Advanced Highers, you can leave school and go to uni or college instead of doing 6th year. In 6th year, you can choose to sit the National 4s (rarely), National 5s, Highers and Advanced Highers you need to get your chosen job, apprenticeship or to get into your university or college course. Advanced highers are made up of a portfolio and at least one exam, although more emphasis is usually placed on the portfolio than had been at Highers. As mentioned in the video, if you do well in your Advanced Higher subjects, and they directly align with your course at uni, you can skip the first year. Advanced Highers are widely accepted as being harder than an A Level which allows this transition to occur. However, this is only applicable to certain courses and few people tend to do this (in my experience). (Please comment any corrections if anything has changed!)
Mouse Mac I’m not 100% sure if they were replaced or are equivalent with Nat 4’s and 5’s as I’m not really too familiar with the old system but I can say that int 1 and 2 are no longer taught in Scottish schools.
Mouse Mac As far as I was aware when sitting National 5s, they were the same level as int 2 as some of the work we were given by teachers were old int 2 past papers and unit tests.
@@Emerald__Ace NI's system is much the same as that for England and Wales, just we've got a local exam board - and we can still sit AQA/OCR/Edexcel courses/papers
My school accidentally got given welsh papers a year or two ago and there was a huge scandal because they were “easier” - they got the wrong WJEC one Idek 😂🤷🏽♀️
Which one was that again? The one with the crocodile? I seem to remember it not actually being terrible, but people just weren't expecting the format of it.
@Heavens I'll need to have a proper look at it. Had a quick check there and I do remember the second part of the croc question looked like it wanted differentiation with the chain rule (which is [or at least, used to be] advanced higher) but I guess you could use interpolation to get it.
I did this exam! I remember everyone in fits of laughter afterwards so we didn’t cry. 😂 My teacher told me I passed by 1.3% even after the lowered pass mark. 😂
I think people were annoyed because in the England vid he was saying British exams and the Scottish exam system is different tho. But I get where ur coming from he will never make everyone happy hahah
The good thing about Scottish exams is they are all sat at the same time, I think English exams are a lot more spread out. For example higher English is done in one day and you do a close reading, a set text and a literature essay and for sciences you sit multiple choice and written in the same day which I think is a lot better
I'm from the U.S., but have watched a ton of British TV shows and TH-camrs growing up (Skins, Charlie McDonnnell, etc.), so I have a pretty good knowledge of the English school system (as much as an outsider can have), but didn't realize it was so different from Scotland (and probably Wales and Northern Ireland as well?). I love these videos.
You should do one for Wales as well. Our system may also have GCSEs and A levels, but there are a bunch of differences and additional stuff that Wales has compared to England.
In Wales, it's slightly different too but not as different compared with Scotland and the rest of the UK. We have the Welsh exam board WJEC (or CBAC if u want the Welsh translation) and some other differences compared to England and Scotland
S4 (fourth year) 🏴 = Year 11 🏴 = Grade 10 🇺🇸 S5 (fifth year) 🏴 = Year 12 🏴 = Grade 11 🇺🇸 S6 (sixth year) 🏴 = Year 13 🏴 = Grade 12 🇺🇸 SCOTLAND: In S4, you usually complete either 6 or 8 National 5 subjects and exams are in May In S5, you usually complete 5 subjects, consisting of either Higher or National 5 level, exams in May In S6, you can take a variety of levels of subjects, usually 4, at both Advanced Higher or Higher (or even N5), exams in May National 5 is equivalent to GCSE’s in England, and Advanced Higher is equivalent to A Levels, but we only have one year to complete all our 3 levels (N5, H and AH), whereas A levels are over 2 years. Most exams for Higher and AH are split into 2 papers. Most schools also have prelims (preliminary exams), which are mock exams that happen usually after the winter holidays in January/February, but can occur in December. For universities, they usually focus on your Higher results only, however if you do well in your AH they’ll definitely take it into account. ENGLAND (general info, I’m not from England so not completely sure): In Year 11, you complete your GCSE’s In Year 12, you begin your 2 year A level courses and continue into year 13 In Year 13, you finish your 2 year A level courses Year 12 and 13 are known as sixth form in England. A level is much like Advanced Higher in that they’re both very similar to university level. Scotland has primary school (Primary 1-7) then Secondary School (S1-6). England has primary school also (Year 1-6) but then start Secondary a year earlier than Scotland (Year 7-13) Hope this helps anyone confused, feel free to comment how the USA compares to this cause I have no idea!
Emma W i’m an international student whose course is supposedly based off of the english gcse (hence the name igcse) and gcse’s seem completely different from what us international kids do
GSCE people do more content than Nat 5 people but they’re not as difficult so it cancels out. Also, correct me if I’m wrong but I’ve spoke to a few English people before and they were like (example) “I have 3 English exams, 4 maths exams, 2 history exams etc” whereas we regard all exams in the same area as the one exam.
So i am also from Dundee and id like to point out that the majority of people do 6 national 5s. The only people who do 8 are those from dundee high school (the private school)
All you need is 2 highers, leave in s5 and go to college for 2 years for an HND and then progress to 2nd or 3rd year of uni depending on the course/uni. Easily the best path for people living in Scotland. Obviously not applicable if you want to be a doctor but a perfectly viable option that most teachers don't even discuss/tell students. At best you will leave Uni with a degree when you're 20 by doing less work.
I really like these type of videos! I find it fascinating learning about different exams in different countries, every thought of doing the Irish Junior Cert/Cycle and Leaving Cert? I will be sitting the Leaving Cert next year! Honestly hate the points system they have in place but hey I still have to get the points! 🇮🇪🇮🇪
1, What about Wales??? 2. Some exam boards, like WJEC, are all marked online now. Teachers can apply to be an examiner and a certain number are invited to a conference to learn about how to mark fairly. Instead of one teacher marking a complete exam paper, each teacher will mark a certain question of someone's exam paper (so that not one person is marking a student's paper). I've found this to be a fairer way to mark. Also, to make sure teachers are marking accurately, double marking often occurs - this is where other teachers/examiners mark a percentage of questions that one teacher has already marked to ensure everyone is in agreement and are marking the questions in a similar way.
What isn’t discussed here is that we do three types of exams: National 5s, Highers and Advanced Highers. But most people don’t go on to sit Advanced Highers because most Scottish unis don’t want them unless it’s a really competitive course (Medicine,Accountancy) so most people either leave or do more Highers. Highers are easier than A Levels so if you would want to go to a English Uni you would need higher grades to get in. What’s different is that we sit 3 exams and we are younger when we sit them (15,16,17) when in England it is (16,18) we also only learn a course in a year when in England it is two. But GSCE is harder than National 5 and A Level is Harder than Higher. We leave school at 17 when the English leave at 18.
During my Higher Maths exam I had a silent breakdown & one of the invigilators came over & put a packet of tissues on my desk. Scottish university exams were a whole new level of stress (payment seeing uni is free I guess), but in university if you failed the exam but had 40% or more on all coursework and good attendance you got a compensation pass which overall let you pass the year if you only failed one module that year.
Basically: Nat 5 is around high GCSE to AS level. Higher is around A-Level but depending on the subject can be a bit easier. Advanced Higher is around high A-level to HNC level.
Also we dont get appeals or remarking now because it cost the school like £30 per paper if they send it back to try and appeal it. So my school just said that no one was getting appeals anymore. Which was rubbish!!!
i only had 6 national 5s and the great thing about sqa exams is you only need about 70% to get an A and it doesn’t matter if you get 70% or 100% an A is an A but in england it’s so much harder to get the top grade
In my school you are not allowed to take your phones into exams and if you take it in and it is found I can effect not only the exam you used your phone it but possibly all the others.
“Offices full of teachers grading” is how the AP tests are graded in the United States. My teacher was complaining about a conference he was going to for the the purpose of grading tests.
Highers are the main thing that get you into Uni though - folk do 5 highers in 5th year which you apply to uni with and maybe and advanced higher or 2 in 6th year
this comment made me remember how behind i am with my welsh bacc like I'm behind on 2 of the challenges but i can't be bothered to catch up because its just welsh bacc 😂
Welsh Inc it’s like the parts of the welsh bacc course the ones i’ve done are the ‘community challenge’, ‘global challenge’ and ‘enterprise and employability challenge’
The funny part about highers effectively being your entrance exam is that some people (like me) do their highers and then get an unconditional offer for university and even though I took three advanced highers I didn't need to pass to get into my course at university. I failed two out of my three exams that year
Willing to volunteer for the Irish perspective cause it is SO different! Just commented on the UK video of this and my mind is being blown! The Irish exam system makes absolutely no sense to even Irish people sometimes
In dundee we only have 6 nat5s corry went to private school so they can do 8. And in some other cities they have 8 nat5s. I'm not trying to be pissed at corry because he wouldn't have necessarily known that, I'm just clarifying for anyone wondering :)
9:57 some schools have a sixth form attached whilst others don't. There's also separate sixth form colleges which is what he meant by leaving school to go to sixth form
I've just finished my sqa exams and yes I know Cory hasn't been to school in a while, and some things could've been explained better, and something's have changed but at least we've been recognised I appreciate it
I had a rubbish time in secondary school and ended up leaving 1 and a half years early because of mental health. When I came back to take my English language and Maths GCSE I was so happy with my invigilator because she allowed me to talk to her about random things while I was doing the exam to try and calm my anxious energy. I found English super difficult and have done until last week which I hope will be my last time doing it, but my invigilators for college have been super nice as well. Shoutout to Sheila for making me feel so comfortable in my exams in 2017, especially with new spec!!!!!!
I’m a Scottish student who studied National 5’s and Highers at secondary school (I’m now awaiting confirmation of a Uni place having left school three years ago) so I though I’d try and break it down a little bit better than Corry did, since I actually sat these exams. In Scotland, Secondary School is broken up into six year groups, and in the last three years (4th year, 5th year, 6th year). In 4th year, you sit up to six National 5 exams. In 5th year, you sit up to five exams. From 5th year, you can sit Higher exams, or you can sit the National 5 exams that you didn’t get in 4th year, or a mix of the two. In 6th year, you sit up to four exams, and you can start studying Advanced Highers. For example, I sat four exams in each year. In 4th year, I sat Nat 5 RMPS, Nat 5 Computing Science, Nat 5 Modern Studies and Nat 5 Accounting, but I didn’t get good enough grades in Nat 5 Maths or English to sit the exams in those subjects. In 5th year, I sat Nat 5 Maths and English, and Higher Accounting and Modern Studies. I studied Higher Computing Science, but again didn’t get the grades to sit the exam. In sixth year, I sat Higher Maths, Higher English, Higher Music and Higher Computing Science. That might be different for different schools. My school (Dyce Academy. Anyone else suffer through that shit hole of a school?) also had the Aberdeen City Music School attached to it, and students of ACMS were taught at a higher level, so they could do Nat 5 Music in 3rd Year, Higher in 4th year and Advanced Higher in 5th
In Ireland during the leaving cert all phones are put in a box which is kept outside the room with a student (or at least in my school it was just a student) from another year minds them and also has to go to and from the bathroom with people to make sure they don't cheat.
There are the Nat 5s, which are effectively the same as GCSE's. If you are doing well at the highest level of those (Credit (1 & 2), Standard (3 & 4) and Foundation (5) are the respective highest to lowest levels), then you can end up actually sitting the Intermediate 2 (introductory college level) exams. If you are exceptionally bright, your school can put you forward to sit a higher exam on top of your nat 5/Int 2 in the same academic year, but it is not common and usually reserved for incredibly bright pupils. A friend of mine in school ended up sitting 3 highers in the same year as her Int 2's, and then completed her advanced highers the following year at the end of secondary 5 with a clean sweep of A's throughout. Her workload was insane.
as someone who’s just finished week 3 out of 4 of GCSE’s seeing you guys try and understand the school system is hilarious. granted i really should be revising for maths and history on tuesday but....
Our test are on computers because the school gives us computers. Also we have EOGs and Final Exams in Middle School and then we can take PSATs in either Middle or High school and the we take more Final Exams and Finals (two different thing on thing is for the state and one is for the county) and SATs
In England, we legally can leave school after GCSEs at 16, but have to stay in some kind of education until 18, so either sixth form, college or apprenticeships etc.
Another note is that Advanced Higher subjects are largely self study. You meet up with the teacher 2/5ths of the week for a taught lesson, teaching you how to do certain stuff (Geography for example, was teaching a couple new formulae, how to use them, etc), and the rest of the time, you can study wherever you want in the school. Such as the library, another advanced higher classroom for a completely different subject that your friend was taking, or if its free, the teacher's room.
As a Scot I approve. Bring him back for more America vs Scotland! 🏴
Bangtan_Infires_Me I second this!
His info is very outdated and I think it's because curriculum for excellence is only three to four years old
@@ReyJ I think it's a bit older than that, when I was in first year they had curriculum for excellence and that was about 6 years ago. I think they had just brought that into place though because as it seemed, no one knew how it worked
@@LaurenSpaceTV the new exams as they are known now have only been going on for a few years (3/4, depending on how you count). That's why when you look up past papers, there is discontinued Higher and advanced higher, and then the new higher and advanced higher, which only have three past papers each, as they have only been going on that long. The new curriculum for excellence change meant that H and AH qualifications are worth a lot more now than GCSE, AS and A level.
@@ReyJ ah okay, I mean maybe the didn't have the exams in place when I was in first year bc y'know in first year you don't really do any important tests. I just remember when I started was when they changed it all to National 5 and all that. To be completely honest I don't remember
"Dundee is a place in Scotland, believe me."
*looks out my bedroom window to see Dundee City Centre*
Nah don't believe you.
Looks outside window to see Dundee tenement flats
@@rossstephen2568 home to scabertay university
Looks out window to see giant building blocking the v&a
Lived in Forfar for a year. Immediately outside my window were scagheads, the horizon was 50% Highland peaks. Loved Dundee.
Mon the Loons!
*looks outside to see law hill*
Basically...
Nat 5s - slightly harder than GCSEs
Highers - easier than A Levels but done over one year not two
Adv Higher - university level course, harder than A Level
Cameron Beattie no way are nat 5s harder my cousin was so surprised at how hard our english exams were and he is scottish
ALA_Legend 02 well I mean they are according to actual content and how universities view them. Maybe your cousin thought that because you cover things that we don’t and vice verse and you do more exams, but GCSEs in terms of actual difficulty are in between our nat5s and nat4s (Nat 4s are an easier version of national 5 with no end of year exam)
Cameron Beattie maybe the actual content is easier, but the exams arent they are a lot stricter with the marks and they are quite often really time pressured, english and history in particular
ALA_Legend 02 I guess I’d agree with that. For history in Scotland (at Higher) we have to do three essays for the first paper, which evens out at about 45 mins for the long essays and 20 mins for the shirt one and i found that quite difficult to finish
Cameron Beattie we have to do 8-12 per exam with 2-3 longer ones in 2 hours
Finally!! Someone acknowledging Scottish exams
they exist
Ikr!
Ikr. Now it's still a little different
Nat 4 - no exam unit tests
5- up to 7 exams
Nat 6/higher - up to 5 exams
Nat 7/advance Higher (kinda like 1st year of uni) - up to 3 exams
All within the space of 3 years, some people leave without any aswell
@@rimideol3738 I like how u explained this in one tiny comment but they took the whole video and still missed out literally everything hahahaha (love them both though 😂)
“Why are the UK so mean to the teachers” 😂 soz Evan, it’s just our personality 😂😂😂
Rhiannon Woonton especially if there a supply god help them
Zebras 724 i know, we are terrible 😂
Rhiannon Woonton Because we don't need to suck up to them 😂😂😂
Apologies to my old Spanish teacher who had a genuine nervous breakdown and left for months lmao
Rhiannon Woonton it’s the culture
Finally, Scotland is recognised as different from England.
Ahaha ik thank god. I hate when English ppl are like "yeah this is so British". No, that's English mate.
@@abigailhyde2697 Well Yeah but I think even us Scots can agree that tea is god tier
@@abigailhyde2697 and how many 'British' stereotypes are actually English stereotypes
THIS VIDEO CHANGES EvErYtHiNG
YASSSSS england can suck it
I can't believe that he didn't mention the free uni fees in Scotland! I love this country so much 🏴🦄
You guys are so lucky
Yeah I'm so jealous :'(
darcie tfw I live in broke moray and the only upside to eduction is free uni
I know right, it’s great. The way the marking and percentages for stuff are in American for high schools are so much better tho
aha ik
‘TWO exams per subject’
evan you can have 4 exams per gcse subject
for a level further maths i have 7
6 science, 4 english, 3 maths, 3 history, 3 german etc
bobbi xo 4 german
9 science for me
9 science papers if you pick separate sciences
Yeah im doing a level maths and further maths so have 7 for the 2 subjects plus another 3 for chemistry
Who else should be revising rn
not me
Only like 4 GCSE’s left its ok
Year 12 A levels finished
Just finished my exams woohoo
Maths tomorrow
Let’s not forget the important thing- Scottish uni is FREE
Laura Young no it’s not, it’s called a loan, which you pay back
Emory-Ephraim Docherti no it’s not SAAS makes it free because they pay for you. It’s not a student loan (on a separate note you can get a loan from them that you need to pay back)
Scottish uni is not as good
@@AR25326 is prince William not good enough?
@@AR25326 Wdym, we have some of the highest ranking unis like Glasgow and Edinburgh
From what I understand, in terms of difficulty it goes
Gsce
Nat5
As level
Higher
A level
Advanced higher
University
B Scott exactly
Didn't he say Nat5s are easier than GCSEs?
Nebulix Network no, there’s more GCSEs, but they’re not as difficult. I’ve taken gcse maths and gcse further maths and it doesn’t even compare to national 5.
I think technically Advanced Highers are first year university level (or so our teachers like to say)
@@arcadianico yeah but with alevel when going to a scottish uni, you can skip first year there, so it turns into a english 3 year degree so Highers can 't be alot harder than alevels, I only have experience with alevels though so... meh. (source : doing alevels and going to a scottish uni (second year entry)
Can we get Irish next? I need someone to acknowledge how stupid the Junior Cert/Cycle is.
YES
Such a bad system
WE LITERALLY HAVE TO WRITE ESSAYS IN IRISH ABOUT THE EDUCATION SYSTEM AND HOW BAD IT IS
In the English Exam this year (I’m a third year) we had to write about “An issue we felt strongly about” and about 90% of people wrote about how awful our system is
i live right on the other side of the border and my friends always show me paper and stuff for their junior cert whilst i’m doing gcses
But you don’t need advanced highers to get into uni! We use our higher results to get into uni so uni offers require 5 grades because you take 5 highers! :)
Georgia Rose I got into my second year of university because of my two Advanced Highers so it is considered
I went to the University of Strathclyde to do a chemistry degree and we had to take like a first year maths class, which I had a B in advanced higher and it was around 80% - 90% of the stuff I learned in advanced higher before, so you don't need to do advanced highers to get into university but they could make you skip first year more in the sense that you already proved you have that knowledge, it might be different for different subjects but I don't think it is since it set by the SQA.
I also had to biology and physics in my first year for a reason I didn't really understood since they never really corrolated together.
You don't need to do the advanced highers to get into university and just do the higher courses but in some sense it gives the admission workers a sense of you could have a better understanding from other people due to this. It just kinda gives you a slight leg up but once to get into university everyone is on a level play field and no one has an advantage, its more helping the person get into university and that's about it. Saying that I only had advanced maths a highers on the rest of the subjects, so it only really helps if you have advanced highers in multiple subjects related to the degree you're applying for.
I started uni when I was 16, my highers got me in
How many advanced highers do you take?
@@tenma353 If it was me you were talking too, I did two maths and chemistry. For an MChem course at the University of Strathclyde, you need 3 advanced highers of maths, chemistry and biology/physics but since I didn't do a second science so I entered first year.
Ok but why didn't they mention highers, literally the most important test. It's how you get into uni
Alison Good exACTLY and the jump from nat 5 to higher is ridiculous
@@otto6756 wth yall on about, I do all advanced higher in school since 4th year
EmmaDraws mate, as someone who is in 6th year doing advanced higher I am qualified to say that you literally can’t do AH in S4. You HAVE to complete nat 5 and higher first and you aren’t legally allowed to sit nat 5 until S4 so stop trying to smart you twat 😊
Thats wrong i started doing nat 5 in s2
@@LargeSlime you can crash higher
A huge thing that I think is great about the Scottish system is that if someone wasn’t ready for Nat 5 maths or failed it, they have two more tries to redo it. So in a nat 5 classes there are often s4s, s5s, and s6s. I just think that that is so good because it’s a big advantage to have particular Nat 5s so people that struggle in school can still get it over even three years if the teacher thinks it’s the right thing
You should get an irish person for this
Hunter344370 yes!! I’m pretty sure the leaving cert is one of the hardest
@@grainneocruhuir6383 Yesss FUCK the bellcurve
As someone mid-leaving cert currently (maths tomorrow) I fully agree.
Yes, the leaving cert is ridiculous
CNVN Canavan good luck
Get an Irish person to talk about the Junior and Leaving Certs!!!
I just commented that! Glad to see other people want to see that too!
Glad that he’s like “yeah Scotland’s exams are so much harder” coz they legit are
On SQA marking - Teachers choose to do it, and get paid extra. They have to do a training course I believe to learn how to mark the exams. And they aren't allowed to get papers from their school. Also everyone in Scotland does the same exam at the same time as we had one exam board for the whole of Scotland.
Do Wales. Because although we have the same system as England, a lot of it is different!
YES! The WJEC does exist and is so.. so much worse than AQA and EdExcel
@@lunarlakes Are you in year 11? If you are what did you think of them screwing us over with the Welsh speaking exam in year 10?
How about Northern Ireland?!?!
@@lunarlakes omg don't get me started on the WJEC
@@bethjolie338 I'm in year 11 and every welsh teacher in my school were so angry and complained to the exam board, they're still angry now
Pls do an Irish version are tests are very different
exactly
Just to describe the newer Scottish system as someone who went through it from 2016 - 2018
In 4th year you can choose between National 4 and National 5 in the different subjects. When appropriate, people can also sit lower National’s (2-3), but this is usually for special cases with additional learning needs. A National 4 is below the standard of a GCSE and the National 5 is regarded as the same level or higher depending on the subjects. For most National 4s there is no end of year exam so your grade is fully reliant on course work and tests through out the year.
For National 5s, you usually sit at least one exam per subject but also have the course work and tests for the National 4 work to fall back on if you don’t pass the National 5 level.
After 4th year, you can leave school or stay on to 5th Year.
In 5th year you sit “Highers” which are just below an A Level. If you sat National 4 in some subjects, you can sit National 5s in them in 5th year instead of Highers.
Highers tend to be made up of a portfolio and a final exam, although the format changes depending on the subject. The results of your Highers are the grades that your university application usually relies on, allowing Scottish students to gain “unconditional” entry to their University course if they achieve good grades.
If you achieve the grades you need, and don’t want to sit Advanced Highers, you can leave school and go to uni or college instead of doing 6th year.
In 6th year, you can choose to sit the National 4s (rarely), National 5s, Highers and Advanced Highers you need to get your chosen job, apprenticeship or to get into your university or college course.
Advanced highers are made up of a portfolio and at least one exam, although more emphasis is usually placed on the portfolio than had been at Highers. As mentioned in the video, if you do well in your Advanced Higher subjects, and they directly align with your course at uni, you can skip the first year. Advanced Highers are widely accepted as being harder than an A Level which allows this transition to occur. However, this is only applicable to certain courses and few people tend to do this (in my experience).
(Please comment any corrections if anything has changed!)
MorganEatsYou I believe they removed the fallback system from Nat 5 to Nat 4.
@@ImagineThinking so are intermediate 1 and 2 gone now then? Replaced with national 4 and 5?
Mouse Mac I’m not 100% sure if they were replaced or are equivalent with Nat 4’s and 5’s as I’m not really too familiar with the old system but I can say that int 1 and 2 are no longer taught in Scottish schools.
Mouse Mac As far as I was aware when sitting National 5s, they were the same level as int 2 as some of the work we were given by teachers were old int 2 past papers and unit tests.
nat 5's are easier than GSCE's i beleive
Please do an Irish one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We need someone to acknowledge the bloody bell curve
You have two in Ireland has two in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland.
I'm in the middle of the fecking leaving cert I need to hear someone complain about it on the channel
@@Emerald__Ace NI's system is much the same as that for England and Wales, just we've got a local exam board - and we can still sit AQA/OCR/Edexcel courses/papers
@@PeterReidUK Ok I didn't know what was the same and what is different.
you should definitely have a look at welsh exams. it’s wild.
eve I agree I’ve had 23 gcse exams I’m so close to death
eve there are so many welsh exams I’m dying
23???
A k I think I have 29 overall 😂
My school accidentally got given welsh papers a year or two ago and there was a huge scandal because they were “easier” - they got the wrong WJEC one Idek 😂🤷🏽♀️
I will happily guide you through the irish exams that i am sitting right now
If you want to try a Scottish maths exam do the 2015 higher paper (good luck!!!)
Soo-min Lee ahahahahha
That 32% pass mark 👌
Which one was that again? The one with the crocodile? I seem to remember it not actually being terrible, but people just weren't expecting the format of it.
@Heavens I'll need to have a proper look at it. Had a quick check there and I do remember the second part of the croc question looked like it wanted differentiation with the chain rule (which is [or at least, used to be] advanced higher) but I guess you could use interpolation to get it.
I did this exam! I remember everyone in fits of laughter afterwards so we didn’t cry. 😂 My teacher told me I passed by 1.3% even after the lowered pass mark. 😂
Evan, posts English exam vid
Viewers: DO SCOTLAND
Evan, posts Scottish exam vid
Viewers : WHERE THE F IS WALES
Edit: AhHHHH EVAN LIKED THANK YOUUUU
I think people were annoyed because in the England vid he was saying British exams and the Scottish exam system is different tho. But I get where ur coming from he will never make everyone happy hahah
Everyone is talking about Irish exams in this Vid. XD
To be fair, Wales is pretty much the same as England, with the exception of exam boards with only one board, WJEC
The good thing about Scottish exams is they are all sat at the same time, I think English exams are a lot more spread out. For example higher English is done in one day and you do a close reading, a set text and a literature essay and for sciences you sit multiple choice and written in the same day which I think is a lot better
Do Irish Cause they are completely different
Yes
Finally, some acknowledgment of the Scottish system!
Also, if you are from England going to a Scottish university, if you get a high enough grade in your A-levels you can go straight into second year.
only if your grades are like A's only. If you have C's and D's then its first year.
I'm from the U.S., but have watched a ton of British TV shows and TH-camrs growing up (Skins, Charlie McDonnnell, etc.), so I have a pretty good knowledge of the English school system (as much as an outsider can have), but didn't realize it was so different from Scotland (and probably Wales and Northern Ireland as well?).
I love these videos.
You should definitely do an Irish system comparison, but make sure you find someone that sat the Irish Leaving cert in the last 5 years!
Daniel McCarthy or someone doing the new junior cycle and someone who did the junior cert because they are so different
Omg this makes me so happy, finally someone talking about how exams are in Scotland! I am Scottish wooh!
Please do the Irish version of this!
In Ireland teachers are also the people who mark the papers, and it's also randomized and anonymous
You should do one for Wales as well. Our system may also have GCSEs and A levels, but there are a bunch of differences and additional stuff that Wales has compared to England.
The Irish exam system is so different to the UK’s exam system
Calum Byers and so much more stressful
There isn't a UK exam system. Each part works on a different one
trying to find an advanced higher music paper coz sqa is useless and now i’m watching this and it’s 6am and the prelim is in 6 hours 😭
Try an A-level paper Evan :)
Preferably further maths or history since they're regarded as the hardest
I think chemistry, further maths and physics are considered the hardest
He should! Try something really difficult like further maths 🤣
@Freddie of course it depends on your skill set. it's just a generalisation
@Freddie I didn't know, but it would definitely be stupid to tell someone who wasn't good at maths to try a further maths paper
Do a gcse biology or psychology a level and see how stupidly the papers are written 😂😂 never seen such nonsense in my life 😂
Me, a Scottish person, Learning about what hell I’m going to have to go through within the next few years.
Ik aha I feel like they don't really tell you what your doing within the next couple years until your literally there lol.
In Wales, it's slightly different too but not as different compared with Scotland and the rest of the UK. We have the Welsh exam board WJEC (or CBAC if u want the Welsh translation) and some other differences compared to England and Scotland
Is no-one going to talk about how they described the invigilators
Are they all little old ladies
....no no no they are also little old men too
We always had one little old man who had squeaky shoes
S4 (fourth year) 🏴 = Year 11 🏴 = Grade 10 🇺🇸
S5 (fifth year) 🏴 = Year 12 🏴 = Grade 11 🇺🇸
S6 (sixth year) 🏴 = Year 13 🏴 = Grade 12 🇺🇸
SCOTLAND:
In S4, you usually complete either 6 or 8 National 5 subjects and exams are in May
In S5, you usually complete 5 subjects, consisting of either Higher or National 5 level, exams in May
In S6, you can take a variety of levels of subjects, usually 4, at both Advanced Higher or Higher (or even N5), exams in May
National 5 is equivalent to GCSE’s in England, and Advanced Higher is equivalent to A Levels, but we only have one year to complete all our 3 levels (N5, H and AH), whereas A levels are over 2 years. Most exams for Higher and AH are split into 2 papers. Most schools also have prelims (preliminary exams), which are mock exams that happen usually after the winter holidays in January/February, but can occur in December. For universities, they usually focus on your Higher results only, however if you do well in your AH they’ll definitely take it into account.
ENGLAND (general info, I’m not from England so not completely sure):
In Year 11, you complete your GCSE’s
In Year 12, you begin your 2 year A level courses and continue into year 13
In Year 13, you finish your 2 year A level courses
Year 12 and 13 are known as sixth form in England. A level is much like Advanced Higher in that they’re both very similar to university level.
Scotland has primary school (Primary 1-7) then Secondary School (S1-6). England has primary school also (Year 1-6) but then start Secondary a year earlier than Scotland (Year 7-13)
Hope this helps anyone confused, feel free to comment how the USA compares to this cause I have no idea!
The Irish system is a WHOLE other story
Emma W i’m an international student whose course is supposedly based off of the english gcse (hence the name igcse) and gcse’s seem completely different from what us international kids do
I hope this series thingy never dies because I love it
And I'm here with 22 gcse exams :')
I have 27 plus two drama performances.
i have 20 plus an art exam a speaking and three practicals for sciences
How long are your exams?
They're over a period of 4 weeks.
GSCE people do more content than Nat 5 people but they’re not as difficult so it cancels out. Also, correct me if I’m wrong but I’ve spoke to a few English people before and they were like (example) “I have 3 English exams, 4 maths exams, 2 history exams etc” whereas we regard all exams in the same area as the one exam.
I'm doing my Irish exams right now (also do the irish system :))
If you do well in A-levels, you can also go straight to 2nd year of Scottish universities
Yesssss Scotland 🏴🏴
So i am also from Dundee and id like to point out that the majority of people do 6 national 5s. The only people who do 8 are those from dundee high school (the private school)
Yeah, private schools mainly do 8 national 5’s, i go to a private school
Some posh state school will have you do 8 NAT5s.
All you need is 2 highers, leave in s5 and go to college for 2 years for an HND and then progress to 2nd or 3rd year of uni depending on the course/uni. Easily the best path for people living in Scotland. Obviously not applicable if you want to be a doctor but a perfectly viable option that most teachers don't even discuss/tell students. At best you will leave Uni with a degree when you're 20 by doing less work.
When your sixth form still has a “fancy” blazer…… no trainers here 😭😂
Also when teachers mark for an exam board they get paid a certain amount like £3 each paper
I really like these type of videos! I find it fascinating learning about different exams in different countries, every thought of doing the Irish Junior Cert/Cycle and Leaving Cert? I will be sitting the Leaving Cert next year! Honestly hate the points system they have in place but hey I still have to get the points! 🇮🇪🇮🇪
do wales with Kim!!
1, What about Wales???
2. Some exam boards, like WJEC, are all marked online now. Teachers can apply to be an examiner and a certain number are invited to a conference to learn about how to mark fairly. Instead of one teacher marking a complete exam paper, each teacher will mark a certain question of someone's exam paper (so that not one person is marking a student's paper). I've found this to be a fairer way to mark. Also, to make sure teachers are marking accurately, double marking often occurs - this is where other teachers/examiners mark a percentage of questions that one teacher has already marked to ensure everyone is in agreement and are marking the questions in a similar way.
You should do an irish one, it's so different
What isn’t discussed here is that we do three types of exams: National 5s, Highers and Advanced Highers. But most people don’t go on to sit Advanced Highers because most Scottish unis don’t want them unless it’s a really competitive course (Medicine,Accountancy) so most people either leave or do more Highers. Highers are easier than A Levels so if you would want to go to a English Uni you would need higher grades to get in. What’s different is that we sit 3 exams and we are younger when we sit them (15,16,17) when in England it is (16,18) we also only learn a course in a year when in England it is two. But GSCE is harder than National 5 and A Level is Harder than Higher. We leave school at 17 when the English leave at 18.
“Is it all just little old lady’s”
“Eh, no. It’s little old men aswell”
During my Higher Maths exam I had a silent breakdown & one of the invigilators came over & put a packet of tissues on my desk. Scottish university exams were a whole new level of stress (payment seeing uni is free I guess), but in university if you failed the exam but had 40% or more on all coursework and good attendance you got a compensation pass which overall let you pass the year if you only failed one module that year.
Basically:
Nat 5 is around high GCSE to AS level.
Higher is around A-Level but depending on the subject can be a bit easier.
Advanced Higher is around high A-level to HNC level.
Also we dont get appeals or remarking now because it cost the school like £30 per paper if they send it back to try and appeal it. So my school just said that no one was getting appeals anymore. Which was rubbish!!!
How did he forget to mention highers which tbh are the most important.....
i only had 6 national 5s and the great thing about sqa exams is you only need about 70% to get an A and it doesn’t matter if you get 70% or 100% an A is an A but in england it’s so much harder to get the top grade
In my school you are not allowed to take your phones into exams and if you take it in and it is found I can effect not only the exam you used your phone it but possibly all the others.
Sophie Kay it’s not your school it’s like a rule for everyone, if you are found to have your phone you get disqualified for the exam season
louise c it’s just how he mentioned about how it was easy to cheat so I mentioned it.
Honestly, there's a thing now where even if you have your phone in one pocket and its battery in the other you can still get disqualified.
“Offices full of teachers grading” is how the AP tests are graded in the United States. My teacher was complaining about a conference he was going to for the the purpose of grading tests.
In gcses u get like 20 multiple choice over all 25 exams combined
Soo true
True - most of them are in biology 😂🤷🏽♀️
Highers are the main thing that get you into Uni though - folk do 5 highers in 5th year which you apply to uni with and maybe and advanced higher or 2 in 6th year
Next should be Irish representation! :)
I'm from Wales, but my history teacher used to grade papers and he would do them at pubs and get drunk while he did them
Maria Casey 😂😂😂
Evan needs to know about the joys of Welsh Bacc
this comment made me remember how behind i am with my welsh bacc like I'm behind on 2 of the challenges but i can't be bothered to catch up because its just welsh bacc 😂
Nia Jones wait, there are challenges now?
Welsh Inc it’s like the parts of the welsh bacc course
the ones i’ve done are the ‘community challenge’, ‘global challenge’ and ‘enterprise and employability challenge’
Don't get me started with Welsh bacc
The funny part about highers effectively being your entrance exam is that some people (like me) do their highers and then get an unconditional offer for university and even though I took three advanced highers I didn't need to pass to get into my course at university. I failed two out of my three exams that year
Willing to volunteer for the Irish perspective cause it is SO different! Just commented on the UK video of this and my mind is being blown! The Irish exam system makes absolutely no sense to even Irish people sometimes
In dundee we only have 6 nat5s corry went to private school so they can do 8. And in some other cities they have 8 nat5s. I'm not trying to be pissed at corry because he wouldn't have necessarily known that, I'm just clarifying for anyone wondering :)
Northern Ireland is a bit different from England too
Slightly, now we've got the old system left over - with AS levels A2 levels, and A-E rather than the numeric system used in england.
9:57 some schools have a sixth form attached whilst others don't. There's also separate sixth form colleges which is what he meant by leaving school to go to sixth form
Wooooh! I need to know how different they are! 💕🥰✨😂
Awwww, you're a Hufflepuff! I just want to hug you and give you ice cream!
😂😂💕
In my school, we take 6 Nat 5s, 5 highers and 2 or 3 advanced highers, or a mixture
When we did our math exam for standard grade we had to sit 4 exams calculator and non calculator for the general exam then for the credit exam
I've just finished my sqa exams and yes I know Cory hasn't been to school in a while, and some things could've been explained better, and something's have changed but at least we've been recognised I appreciate it
Your friend has a very attractive face... And hair... And accent... Just putting it out there. 😂😅
I had a rubbish time in secondary school and ended up leaving 1 and a half years early because of mental health. When I came back to take my English language and Maths GCSE I was so happy with my invigilator because she allowed me to talk to her about random things while I was doing the exam to try and calm my anxious energy. I found English super difficult and have done until last week which I hope will be my last time doing it, but my invigilators for college have been super nice as well.
Shoutout to Sheila for making me feel so comfortable in my exams in 2017, especially with new spec!!!!!!
Yes Scotland! Although national 5 and standard grade are very different so some of this was out of date 🙈
I’m a Scottish student who studied National 5’s and Highers at secondary school (I’m now awaiting confirmation of a Uni place having left school three years ago) so I though I’d try and break it down a little bit better than Corry did, since I actually sat these exams.
In Scotland, Secondary School is broken up into six year groups, and in the last three years (4th year, 5th year, 6th year). In 4th year, you sit up to six National 5 exams. In 5th year, you sit up to five exams. From 5th year, you can sit Higher exams, or you can sit the National 5 exams that you didn’t get in 4th year, or a mix of the two. In 6th year, you sit up to four exams, and you can start studying Advanced Highers.
For example, I sat four exams in each year. In 4th year, I sat Nat 5 RMPS, Nat 5 Computing Science, Nat 5 Modern Studies and Nat 5 Accounting, but I didn’t get good enough grades in Nat 5 Maths or English to sit the exams in those subjects. In 5th year, I sat Nat 5 Maths and English, and Higher Accounting and Modern Studies. I studied Higher Computing Science, but again didn’t get the grades to sit the exam. In sixth year, I sat Higher Maths, Higher English, Higher Music and Higher Computing Science.
That might be different for different schools. My school (Dyce Academy. Anyone else suffer through that shit hole of a school?) also had the Aberdeen City Music School attached to it, and students of ACMS were taught at a higher level, so they could do Nat 5 Music in 3rd Year, Higher in 4th year and Advanced Higher in 5th
lol wales has the exam board WJEC which gave us chicken farms, pasta and killer whales as our yr 10 bio exam...
Holly Chan and nothing about the heart 😂
In Ireland during the leaving cert all phones are put in a box which is kept outside the room with a student (or at least in my school it was just a student) from another year minds them and also has to go to and from the bathroom with people to make sure they don't cheat.
Oooh Nat 5 is not easier than standard grade I will FIGHT
There are the Nat 5s, which are effectively the same as GCSE's. If you are doing well at the highest level of those (Credit (1 & 2), Standard (3 & 4) and Foundation (5) are the respective highest to lowest levels), then you can end up actually sitting the Intermediate 2 (introductory college level) exams. If you are exceptionally bright, your school can put you forward to sit a higher exam on top of your nat 5/Int 2 in the same academic year, but it is not common and usually reserved for incredibly bright pupils. A friend of mine in school ended up sitting 3 highers in the same year as her Int 2's, and then completed her advanced highers the following year at the end of secondary 5 with a clean sweep of A's throughout. Her workload was insane.
We had an invigilator who looked like Mary Berry and honestly it was amazing 😂
National 5s sounds like a boy band.
This whole comment section is full of English people trying to make it out as if they have harder exams. I have to laugh.
as someone who’s just finished week 3 out of 4 of GCSE’s seeing you guys try and understand the school system is hilarious. granted i really should be revising for maths and history on tuesday but....
TAKE AN A LEVEL MATHS PAPER! I think thats the maths you learn in the foundation year of scottish/ 1st year of American uni
WAIT, take a further maths a level
Advanced Higher maths would be the equivalent to first year uni (ish)
@@vomitdev YESSS
@@arcadianico I think thats further maths
haha imagine him watching the Hitler reacts meme after the exam he does
Our test are on computers because the school gives us computers. Also we have EOGs and Final Exams in Middle School and then we can take PSATs in either Middle or High school and the we take more Final Exams and Finals (two different thing on thing is for the state and one is for the county) and SATs
Wales have WJEC which is a welsh version of AQA
Liam Andrews Wales also have AQA (or at least they did when I did GCSE’s), it just depends on what exam boards your subject head/school chooses
We do wjec english and we‘re an english grammar school- literally makes no sense 😂
In England, we legally can leave school after GCSEs at 16, but have to stay in some kind of education until 18, so either sixth form, college or apprenticeships etc.
Great, now you just have Wales and Northern Ireland.
Another note is that Advanced Higher subjects are largely self study. You meet up with the teacher 2/5ths of the week for a taught lesson, teaching you how to do certain stuff (Geography for example, was teaching a couple new formulae, how to use them, etc), and the rest of the time, you can study wherever you want in the school. Such as the library, another advanced higher classroom for a completely different subject that your friend was taking, or if its free, the teacher's room.
You should do Wales, the WJEC is a special system
Squiggly Syd VERY special 😂
WJEC is just on another level
As someone from New Zealand, this video just left me more confused than the last one.