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:"!
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
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.
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
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" 🤣😂
@@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.
@@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
@@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.
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
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 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
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.
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.
@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
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.
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
@@AnonymousM1001 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)
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
Yes but you're actually learning and being tested on your comprehensive knowledge. The US is just like, colour a bubble and hope you're right without any context. At least in the UK, based on your results, you know the detailed answers you gave were fully read and graded accordingly. There's a reason so many US citizens seem uneducated. Because they're not actually learning anything of value.
i go to a somewhat prestigious private high school in the US and I on average around 1 or 2 essays a week between my english, law, history, french, and rarely even physics classes (ignoring the ones some teachers make you do with no prep at all during the period which serve as test grades). Though that is not the case for many public schools (from what my friends told me) probably write 1 essay a month and are required to write an essay for most AP exams (multiple for some). I don’t know what type of odd high school this man attended, but that is not representative of the general American High school experience.
@@WidthTomJones same in South Africa; we have invigilators but no teacher/lecturer can invigilate his/her module. Physics lecturer will do, for example, Anatomy 🤷♂️
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 😀
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*
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.
@@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
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
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
@@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.
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.
@@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
@@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
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.
@@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?
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
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
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*
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???
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
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
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.
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
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 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
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.
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 ✍️
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.
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*
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
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
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'.
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
In Scotland, if you need the bathroom in the middle of the exam, an invigilator has to escort you there. And it is very very very common for people to be sobbing in an exam because it’s so hard, but no one is allowed to do anything. You just sit there trying to see past your tears while you complete the last half hour of an exam.
We have this same rule in Singapore. Also, we can't go in the first hour and last half hour for some reason. At least at A Levels, not sure about O Levels.
@@sriramhrishikesh9844 in the US alot of teachers use the 20-20 rule for going to the bathroom during a normal class. You can't go to the bathroom in the first 20 minutes or last 20 minutes of a class. The theory being you should have gone to the bathroom before class started and in 20 minutes you will be changing classes so you can go in the passing time of 4 - 5 minutes.
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
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.
Yet in English Lit we are told to memorise quotes from a 3 separate books/plays and poems, whilst also remembering the context the books were written in and the techniques the writers used
@@elyssiathegood1555 idk but I would rather have a 25% of getting it write than writing like 4 pages for one question and only getting like 15 marks or something
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!
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
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.
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?
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
@@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
@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.
@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.
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.
SAT nowadays is 100% multiple choice, the essay is optional I think it servers as a replacement for a college entrance essay for some universities if I am not mistaken
And to think here in the Caribbean (We're kind of in between Not as difficult as the U.K but more difficult than USA by far) we fight for validation by the U.S. It should be the other way around.
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.
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.
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
ARMY BTS people in set 1 are always really nice to their teacher (unless they're a dick), but then people in set 2 and below literally bully the living shit out of the teachers skksksj
connor cookie lolllll come to our school i mean our teachers are actually quite nice ngl but i’m in top set and they all hate us honestly 😂 i mean they hate like set 3 and that more but still
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.
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
@@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%
@@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...)
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.
And to think it’s not even the hardest nor the most challenging exams in Europe, Italy’s, Austria’s, the Netherlands’s Education Systems are much more rigorous and demanding than the UK’s.
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.
@@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)
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.
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!!!!????
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.
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
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
Oskar Curtiss it’s chill you finish topics early so it’s like 3 months of just revising. Only ones that have it bad is geography and history because there’s hardly any revision time
@@maisharahman3685 yup I'm yr11 and our geography teacher has decided to make us learn about 20% of the course and we still will only get 3 revision lessons. Fuck
i don't even know if you can compare british and american high school exams,,, sats sound so much easier than gcses and that's not even factoring in a levels
Answer that guy called name because not only that but of course its easy you do sats when you're 11 and to a 11 yo it might be a bit challenging and GCSEs are supposed to be harder why would you give a y11 student y6 work
@@Name-gt7lf i mean american sats for uni admissions!! they're taken at the same age we take a levels but they're easier even than gcses so it seems kind of redundant to compare schools. hope that clears up what i'm talking about :D
you do SATs at like 16-17 which is general knowledge stuff for english, math, and writing. Before that you have a Psat it doesn't count for anything but it measures your progress and gives insight into how you might do on a SAT. Throughout grade school you do standardized testing every year for about a regular school week, these are different for every state. Where I'm from we called them I -steps.
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.
This is honestly such a mood, it's currently 11.30pm and after reading that comment and laughing I was like oh no I should be studying! (knowing full well I should've been studying all day and my brain chooses now to AnXIeTy)
@@duckky2443 OH NOOO!!! My massively important exams were cancelled because of Covid-19 so I'm suddenly free from all work, it's weird, less fun than you might imagine, still more fun than schoolwork though, poor you :(
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
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 💀
@@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
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
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.
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?
At my American school, we had assemblies on bullying, "don't do drugs", "join the military". When I was at sixth form, we had assemblies on unions, HIV awareness, the housing market, and a presentation by one of the researchers on a team that won a Nobel prize in physics.
Our assemblys are fairly fixed. Start of term: new beginnings. Basically telling everyone to not be an arse if they were last year Followed by anti bullying week. Then when the new year rolls around, another assembly about new beginnings. All other weeks are on a rotor talking about: tolerance, British values, books = good, maybe politics, or some other bollocks motivation. The best thing to come out of Corona is the fact I don't have them anymore and it is absolutely glorious.
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
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. 🤠
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.
@@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.
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!
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
I remember in my GCSE they gave me the wrong exam paper, I got the English Lit paper the week before everyone else, so I was put in solitary confinement for three hours and made to sign a form stating I'd keep the exam topic and questions completely secret otherwise I'd lose all of my exams, they'd wipe everything 😂😂 and because I never got to do the English Language exam I got an automatic A. Literally the best luck I've ever had. Also I remember the fire alarm going off in my maths GCSE and we were told to stay put... we could've died, but our lives aren't as important as a world wide timed exam :)
@@etherealcat69 true but 99% of school fire alarms are done by a student, it's entirely possible they wanted to confirm it was genuine before evacuating. In my 7 years of secondary school we only had one genuine fire but probably had 50+ alarms go off. It got that bad that the fire brigrade turned round and said if it goes off again we'll charge the school, to which the school said if we catch you doing it your parents will be sent the bill 😅 it was weird how not many happened after that! 😏
@@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
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.
John John it’s sad that I can remember the books I read for my GCSE’s over 6 years ago as well as the poems I learned. I hated my exams mostly because of the room we had to be in it was always more scary to go into the hall for my exams I’d rather have the tests in the classroom like my mocks
Kind of the same in my country. Also, I don't know if you have that in English speaking countries, but we have A LOT of oral exams. Have to remember a whole analysis of for ex. a book.
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 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.
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
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.
UK: * Sits 27 exams at GCSE, studies 4 exams at AS and at least 3 at A-level, and are told that if you don't get 5 grades between A and C including maths and English you will fail at everything and die by the time you are 30 * America: "Quizzes are terrifying" btw that Tinder profile caption for Jack was amazing XD
Yeah but you still have to remember most physics equations. You get like 2 questions on the equation sheet on the back but paper 1 physics was just rearranging equations so was lucky there
@@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
Bee Lily An invigilator fainted in one of my exams and we were all kinda just like uhh wtf is he ok and he came back in five minutes before the end of the exam and just kept invigilating
@@some_city.girl.x it's bad. If they knew it was a real fire they'd let us out lol but if they know it's a drill or THINK it's a drill we have to stay because if we don't do it then the entire country has to re sit a brand new exam and the exam boards have to make new papers. Otherwise ppl could discuss the answers
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.
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.
@@ahmedelmogi5113 I don't know, for some reason I just find differences between cultures really interesting. Even though the US and the UK aren't that different, I like learning about how they do these simple, everyday things slightly differently. I'm from Norway myself, which means that I can compare with my own culture as well. I'm not sure why I find it so interesting, but I just do
@@tsu371 just remember to breathe. It's actually not too bad, just exhausting, also I would recommend reviewing everything you do at school, at home, this way it'll stay in your brain and it will really help you in the future, I wish I could have had someone tell me that. Don't stress out, remember they'll be an answer to everything, you just have to recollect your thoughts and approach it in another way, hope this help, good luck in the future ✨
Weemo Tsumiki//mia when you’re taking GCSEs you really start to wonder why you didn’t just revise the things when you first learnt them or why you didn’t make notes sooner. The quicker you understand and know things (start off with simple stuff honestly) it’s easier by gcse. Also I would advise buying the CGP textbooks for science that are based on your exam board bc it has everything in there that you need to know. Also, by gcse they actually split the topics into paper 1 and 2 so it isn’t as stressful as revising it all like my skl made me do for yr 10 and mocks :/ lol soz I went on forever
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 🤷♂️
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:"!
You should do Ireland too! On the leaving Cert 👀
Look forward to the video
Evan Edinger literally have done 11 exams so far , I’ve got 12 left to do in the space of 10 days🥵
NOW YOU CAN SEE HOW WE SUFFER WHEN WE ARE 15/16 😂😂😂😂
TinyDoughnutElle literally ! Damaging my mental health and no one really understands how hard they are !!
America: We get cheat sheets.
U.K: NO LABELS ON BOTTLES
Toothless don’t forget how your not able to have the lid on your calculator
KYIUM no watches lol 😂 open your pencil cases
You also need clear pencil cases.
LITERALLLLYYYYY
KYIUM you know
evan: "when the school shooter comes i-"
me: "wAIT WHAT"
oh
How do you only have 1 reply lol?
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
Gallade wanna go Cambridge but you say “Durem” it’s Durham 😂
Fas huss ikr
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
cheap as chips and here’s one book, one play and one novella
cheap as chips and you can’t have the books or poems with you cause you have to have that all memorised
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.
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
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
"We use pens."
"How are they graded?"
"...with another pen????"
I DIED 😂😂😂
HAHAHAHAHA me too!!
Same 😂
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" 🤣😂
@@zenko247 It's such a good story... I wish it was true though.
@@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
doing my gcses now and hearing that Americans have basically all multiple choice is making me tear up
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
Sebastian Moon exactly rip us
ellie johnstone watching this made me want to move to America.
Dream Candyz can relate
Yup my problem rn and after my bio exam yesterday m fully done wiv life
“No we use pens”
“How are they graded”
* awkward silence *
“... with another pen?”
I DIED
They get scanned lol, blue ink doesn’t get picked up by the scanners
@@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.
@@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
@@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.
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
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.
I took history, omg memorizing every event with the year and duration fml
@@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
@@sofh784 😭😭😭 I dropped it
It mostly depends on your teacher and state here in us of a
Americans: These exams are killing me
Americans: *Sees Britain. *
British: You were saying?
@@luffy5246 correct me if im wrong but is the american college the same as British college? As in GCSE/SATs then college then university?
I’m telling u now British exams aren’t that hard
@@lol-bg4wh compared to USA?
@@lol-bg4wh You’re living in a fantasy
@@lol-bg4whive seen you under every comment insisting you have it worse. american school is soft. cope harder.
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.
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.
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.
and when they all groaned and looked defeated when the teacher announced a pop quiz
@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
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.
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?"
Chloe Chan yeah brits and Australians going wtf???
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
@@AnonymousM1001 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)
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.
@Megan Rose we can only write with black if it's +1,+2 (year 12,13 ) or uni but some ICSE schools allow it
US high school sounds like a dream
Multiple choice ENGLISH
Cheat sheets
Own clothes
Like 3 exams???
School shootings
Hi Chimichanga balanced
@@hichimichanga8405 worth it
imagine doing multiple choice english omg 🥺
Hi Chimichanga I’ll take that deal
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
omg right
Yes but you're actually learning and being tested on your comprehensive knowledge. The US is just like, colour a bubble and hope you're right without any context. At least in the UK, based on your results, you know the detailed answers you gave were fully read and graded accordingly. There's a reason so many US citizens seem uneducated. Because they're not actually learning anything of value.
i go to a somewhat prestigious private high school in the US and I on average around 1 or 2 essays a week between my english, law, history, french, and rarely even physics classes (ignoring the ones some teachers make you do with no prep at all during the period which serve as test grades). Though that is not the case for many public schools (from what my friends told me) probably write 1 essay a month and are required to write an essay for most AP exams (multiple for some). I don’t know what type of odd high school this man attended, but that is not representative of the general American High school experience.
@@AdeleD79this is also not generally true, it largely depends on the teacher you have. You can look at my response to the original comment
My mate studied Romeo and Juliet for 3 years then wrote about Macbeth in the exam
He's defo an absolute don
What mark he get? lmao
Ethan Tran He got a U
Brad Coxon of course he did. the teachers are so shitty
My friend did America 1950 1990 history, wrote about 1920 1950 America for exam 😂😂😂 thank God it was a mock though
*British exam hall*
School shooter: *enters*
Pupil: Wrong country, mate!
Teacher: YOU ARE UNDER EXAM CONDITIONS! NO TALKING!
Slytherin to the TARDIS Teachers aren’t even allowed in the exam halls lol
XaviGoesWILD
Our invigilators are the teachers (but not the ones of the particular subject)
@@WidthTomJones wow, really? I thought everyone had to have invigilators lol sorry
XaviGoesWILD yea they are 😂
@@WidthTomJones same in South Africa; we have invigilators but no teacher/lecturer can invigilate his/her module. Physics lecturer will do, for example, Anatomy 🤷♂️
american kids: "omg exams r so hard"
british education system: *"let me introduce myself"*
I’m Finna move to America.Theyre gonna think I’m a genius
@@packet4382 ikrrrr 😂😂
@@packet4382 i wish I did this but i finished exams 2 years ago
@@user-gk6nt5gi5n how’d they go?
@@packet4382 fine passed everything with mostly 6s and 2 7s
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 😀
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*
@@samcurtis6590 we get lucky with one multiple choice on a physics test 🤣🤣
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.
@@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
@@callmehkatie9518 yeah I do aqa exams for english, at least I get 2 GCSE's instead of 1 I guess
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
Lmaooo
LOL 😂
Were you too fast????
Lolol
Depends where your taking your tests and at what level
i had to memorize people's names, geographical places, dates of events and america had MULTIPLE CHOICE ANSWERS? bruh
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
Well, you still needed to know the right answer in a multiple choice :)
@@bookdear you have the answer right in front of you, all you have to do is choose bruh, don't compare yours to mine💀
@@bookdear btw do you just circle out the answer or you've gotta show the working?
@@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.
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🤦🏽♂️
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.
AB ikr
Old Lantern sounds like a b tech lol
@@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
@@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
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.
Learning that a “cheat sheet” is a thing is actually disturbing.
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??
@@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?
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
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
A cheat sheet usually contains formulas that you can quickly acquire while taking tests in math related subjects.
Us kids : YH OUR TEST IS 75% MULTIPLE CHOICE
UK set 8 kid : Hold my last Brain cell🥴
There are only 4 sets
Lysa Ali na. it depends what school your in
Lysa Ali my school had 5 sets for ever subject, minus English which had 4 but it depends on the size of the school
@@lysaali50 my school was massive and they had 2 blocks of 4 sets to basically block 1 had set 1-4 and block 2 had set 5-8
I'm in year8
*school shooter is mentioned*
“This is the UK that’s not an option”
😂😂😂🤣
I hope. Yet. Our local primaries are practising their lockdowns so maybe it's not too far off.
Katie Fletcher yeah my class did it and all the girls were screaming and messing around if it does happen we’re all fucked
@@jaspercandoit Every school has started doing lockdown drills. Not as often as fire drills though
@@marianhartley1 wait when did they start this? And whats the lockdown drills for?
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*
Ikkkkrrrr and they split all over your paper and it gets all wet!!! 💀
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???
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
Thats just the teachers in the US when you ask them for a hint or something of that sort
Americans: we have a cheat sheet
English: cries internally
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.
Most tests don’t have cheat sheets. Like that was something you had maybe when you are younger.
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.
Trisha Lopez yeah, it’s not really that common and we would never be allowed to have cheat sheets for important tests.
Alexandra B ironically the only time I’ve ever had a cheat sheet was a notecard on a final and no other time
UK exams are brutal. Before your GCSEs it is a straight month of hibernation when you are revising
You revised a month beforehand? I’ve done all my exams just revising the night before
Daisy M in a levels that month becomes a year
Maisha Rahman me too bro
@@maisharahman3685 last year I expected to revise 3 months beforehand and I literally lost all motivation and revise the day of the exam
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
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🙃
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
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.
Maya Joy same good luck
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
I had 26 exams with the 2 day art exam
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-
Same here in India. But we aren't allowed to use calculators (not even in competitive exams which are very hard) ...
@@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
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.
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 ✍️
I mean that’s just finals and state testing
aSsEmBliEs
Jack: “the ones about sexual assault weren’t too fun”
Evan: “ours were about rainforests”
Red Sharkie I’m in America and we had one about sexual assault
I’m in england too. We had ones like jack
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.
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.
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*
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
Literally every college requires immense studying, the vast majority of tests are not multiple choice once one leaves high school
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.
Karissa Nickels
What year are you in?
David Zeibert
I studied five hours a day for my A levels. For two years. Every goddam day.
Next video: Jack brings an English Lit GCSE paper and explains it to Evan.
Evan- Wha...
Jack- I Do aN EnGLisH LiTErATurE DeGrEE
Love this video idea!
Bringing in SAT and GCSE example papers to try would be sooooo good, they should try this!
Yes. Yes. Yes
Do it
Wait didn't Evan take a degree in English or math. Like in the US and UK
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
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
Happened for my a-levels too
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'.
@maus rip
hahaha yeah
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
... Or you can just take the risk and do a passage question instead of the essay one
bye. U can just make the quotes up, lol.
I can still remember quote from blood brothers, a Christmas Carol and othello 😭 I took GCSEs 2 years ago
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
Didn't have to do it in one night. You had 2 years to do it.
America: Exams
UK: you mean year 7 quiz?
Drawde_064 literally truee
Drawde_064 lol
Deep dive assessment
😂 true
Oml yes
In Scotland, if you need the bathroom in the middle of the exam, an invigilator has to escort you there. And it is very very very common for people to be sobbing in an exam because it’s so hard, but no one is allowed to do anything. You just sit there trying to see past your tears while you complete the last half hour of an exam.
Same at my school in England 🙋♀️ both my physics and maths papers were stained with my tears...
We have this same rule in Singapore. Also, we can't go in the first hour and last half hour for some reason. At least at A Levels, not sure about O Levels.
@@sriramhrishikesh9844 in the US alot of teachers use the 20-20 rule for going to the bathroom during a normal class. You can't go to the bathroom in the first 20 minutes or last 20 minutes of a class. The theory being you should have gone to the bathroom before class started and in 20 minutes you will be changing classes so you can go in the passing time of 4 - 5 minutes.
Not to mention the gits the SQA are... i started crying doing my higher prelims last year
you’re allowed to go to the toilet in the middle of the exam??
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
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.
That’s probably why the British education is a bit more effective.
not trying to sound controversial but American "tests" sound sooo much easier than the 30 exams I would have had to sit
Good luck 🙏🏾💯
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
Omg ikr!
Not anymore 😂😂😂
@@adambarton2864 As an American the schooling system is ok.
Evan: “Wow you have an exam on a book”
Jack: ...
Jack: ...
Jack: ...
Jack: um
Jack: ...
Jack: that is my whole degree
"75% is multiple choice"
"But-"
"Even in English"
"???????????????????????"
Holy shit
Yet in English Lit we are told to memorise quotes from a 3 separate books/plays and poems, whilst also remembering the context the books were written in and the techniques the writers used
Oof yeah English multiple choice questions are the hardest. How is it allowed to grade students on something so subjective?
@@lucasburnett4422 You mean like everyone else, but with multiple choice?
@@elyssiathegood1555 Multiple choice on subjective questions sounds like such a pain
@@elyssiathegood1555 idk but I would rather have a 25% of getting it write than writing like 4 pages for one question and only getting like 15 marks or something
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!
There’s always that convo between people “who’s gonna take one for the team”
Yoooo fellow queen fan!!
LITERALLY
amber like who’s gonna die in the gcse so we all get full marks
Unoooo
Now I'm here in A levels like💀
"because we all take the same exams"
"Ooh, I'd love that, you guys can bond over how much you hate it."
True
The best thing was coming out of the exam and seeing stuff like "AQA Music out of context" and its just a picture of a dog
Uk English: in a 4 page essay, explain and describe how the mood and atmosphere is presented throughout the novel
Us English : colour in
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
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.
Us English: color* in
Julianna Kocsis it seems easier though there's like a 50% chance of getting it right
Samantha Y us English colour* in
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?
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
@@ma_kal oh interesting! Sounds like a nice balance (if exams can ever be nice 😅)
@@aedwards5166 ikr?? Considering canada is the middle child between the states and the uk
In Scotland, it's black or blue, no gel pens (they smudge)
@@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
I swear a British person would do soooooo well in America !
@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.
@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.
I get good grade on the test and my class works but exam kills my grade.
I'm year 8, I could pass my A.P exams.
@@hunterm9 as a brit the SATs are the most easy test ever
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
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
@@peterfromscotland yeah maybe but the american system sounds so much easier than the British system.
Brilliant
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.
@@melissaallison2103 They did, however, land people on the moon so they're obviously not stupid...
America: Multiple choice for almost everything
Britain: write 50 essays in 2 hours go
SAT nowadays is 100% multiple choice, the essay is optional I think it servers as a replacement for a college entrance essay for some universities if I am not mistaken
And to think here in the Caribbean (We're kind of in between Not as difficult as the U.K but more difficult than USA by far) we fight for validation by the U.S. It should be the other way around.
Bruh for my school almost for every of my exams except math we need to write and essay
Not even 2 hours it’s like 1 hour 30 minute was the standard time when I did GCSEs
@Parl Kilkington same haha i can't even understand England's way
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.
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.
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
WAIT AMERICANS DON'T HAVE OLD MEN WALKING AROUND THE EXAM ROOM STARING AT YOU SUSPICIOUSLY?
we do lol
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.
@@ashejarvis5957 i feel you dude
@@arshtewari7075 Or the slow walk they do around the exam hall, I always got one with a squeaky shoe.
I had a women with really loud shoes walking around
imagine if he mentioned the 10 hour art GCSE or the 15 hour A level art exam lol
Amelia Hall yeet i did it last year for gcse and cried the whole twhile munching on m&ms for 10 hours
I did a clay project for mine this year... absolute hell
15 hours? What do you even do?
Or wait do you have to like make a sculpture or painting...?
@@realcheesybob20 yes you have an exam book for a few months and then make the final piece in the 15hr exam
8:40
"We treated our teachers like sh*t"
That's a British thing I think lol
ARMY BTS people in set 1 are always really nice to their teacher (unless they're a dick), but then people in set 2 and below literally bully the living shit out of the teachers skksksj
people threw grapes at our chemistry teacher and one person put whiteboard cleaner in a teacher's coffee
The amount of teachers my classes made cry or quit is tragic lmao
@@gnookie-9333 ours were the opposite actually. Top sets were ruthless and lazy
connor cookie lolllll come to our school i mean our teachers are actually quite nice ngl but i’m in top set and they all hate us honestly 😂 i mean they hate like set 3 and that more but still
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.
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
@@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%
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 😭😭😭
@@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...)
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.
Watching Evan freak out about how hard UK exams are is the highlight of my day 😂
And to think it’s not even the hardest nor the most challenging exams in Europe,
Italy’s, Austria’s, the Netherlands’s Education Systems are much more rigorous and demanding than the UK’s.
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.
Yeah, average grade and in my school your SAT score determines which set you are put in for classes.
isn’t that the exam every student in Europe has to take so they can compare the countries?
@@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)
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.
that explains why the teachers went around and told you when to change your answer at my school
"that just sounds like you're constantly studying" yeah. Pretty much 😂
Daisy Smith lol yeah. Playing ps4 24 hours a day before the exam, totally studying xD
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!!!!????
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.
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
@@goopguy548 Disagree. A lot of the most successful Americans come from nothing.
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
Very large population, significantly more funding and academic freedom. Countries like the UK however still have more winners per capita.
As a Brit about to do GCSE's I am more than offended
Oskar Curtiss it’s chill you finish topics early so it’s like 3 months of just revising. Only ones that have it bad is geography and history because there’s hardly any revision time
@@maisharahman3685 yup I'm yr11 and our geography teacher has decided to make us learn about 20% of the course and we still will only get 3 revision lessons. Fuck
Go revise get off TH-cam 😂
Jonathan Cochrane better than my school some classes had to teach some of the content to themselves because they were so behind
Eva Cassidy dont stress, year 9 is a chill year tbh
i don't even know if you can compare british and american high school exams,,, sats sound so much easier than gcses and that's not even factoring in a levels
Alexa Campbell You take sats when you’re like 11 so I’m confused as to why you’re saying it’s easy when it’s supposed to be easy.
Answer that guy called name because not only that but of course its easy you do sats when you're 11 and to a 11 yo it might be a bit challenging and GCSEs are supposed to be harder why would you give a y11 student y6 work
@@Name-gt7lf i mean american sats for uni admissions!! they're taken at the same age we take a levels but they're easier even than gcses so it seems kind of redundant to compare schools. hope that clears up what i'm talking about :D
you do SATs at like 16-17 which is general knowledge stuff for english, math, and writing. Before that you have a Psat it doesn't count for anything but it measures your progress and gives insight into how you might do on a SAT. Throughout grade school you do standardized testing every year for about a regular school week, these are different for every state. Where I'm from we called them I -steps.
I’ve been doing a-levels since september and EVERYONE wants to die
Legit I swear if a Brit took an exam in America, they’d be treated as a damn genius
True...I agree with that
My friend who moved to the US is doing basic factorisation in his last year of school
Crikey
Faizal Ogwell Jesus, if theyre just learning factorising, American high school students would faint if they saw my further maths gcse.
Except the United grading scale are extremely different
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.
Evan: It sounds like you are always studying
Jack: Yeah
Me: Laughs in procrastination
This is honestly such a mood, it's currently 11.30pm and after reading that comment and laughing I was like oh no I should be studying! (knowing full well I should've been studying all day and my brain chooses now to AnXIeTy)
@@rowanwatts3936 Oh lord, why did you remind me that I have 16 homeworks overdue, 6 homeworks for the weekend and like 4 essays to do. Whyyyy
@@duckky2443 OH NOOO!!! My massively important exams were cancelled because of Covid-19 so I'm suddenly free from all work, it's weird, less fun than you might imagine, still more fun than schoolwork though, poor you :(
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
Niamh Kelly Yh like Americans have it so easy!!
This way does work better it's just more stressful
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 💀
@@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
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
💀💀💀A CHEAT SHEET?!?!? WE’RE NOT EVEN ALLOWED THR BOOKS ANYMORE 😭😭😭
M. A right! And I live in America! Dang cheat sheets where????
As someone who wholesomely cheated in my english literature exam by marking quotes with coloured dots for different characters. I can say i’m proud
I sweaaaaarr
M. A and this is why i’ve failed gcse i forgot all the quotes i needed
EXACTLY😭 AND WE HAVE 3 BOOKS TO LEARN
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
Finally getting some credit for all the hard work we do in England 😂☹️
i just finnished my biology exam and it was harddddddd
lauren j yup what boards do you do?
hey, only a week to go (bit more for some) :)!!
IKR - live in Australia but very similar to the England's curriculum
It aint much better over here in Wales, we got the WJEC beating the crap out of us.
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
Word
Truest shit😂
So true
PREACH UR FACTS !!! :')
Jesus Christ you wrote a whole fucking essay on the UK education system
Finally people are aware of the difficultly it is to do about 20 exams in a month
25 actually
24 for me lol... 7 left
27. In 4 consecutive weeks ;)
@@sophiaallwright4212 same here, except I have 24 exams
People were already aware
I think you mean Americans
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.
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?
At my American school, we had assemblies on bullying, "don't do drugs", "join the military". When I was at sixth form, we had assemblies on unions, HIV awareness, the housing market, and a presentation by one of the researchers on a team that won a Nobel prize in physics.
I’m from uk and I had about 1000+ assemblies about the same cyber bullying since y2 which is first grade (?) i think
@Isa Shahid ummm to prevent it😅🤷♀️
@Isa Shahid we learnt that in yr 5 then more in yr 8
Our assemblys are fairly fixed.
Start of term: new beginnings. Basically telling everyone to not be an arse if they were last year
Followed by anti bullying week.
Then when the new year rolls around, another assembly about new beginnings.
All other weeks are on a rotor talking about: tolerance, British values, books = good, maybe politics, or some other bollocks motivation.
The best thing to come out of Corona is the fact I don't have them anymore and it is absolutely glorious.
@@joeogle7729 omg how have I never noticed the pattern but have always been like this is the same rubbish they bring up each year
"that just sounds like your constantly studying"
...
Isn't that what school is?
Yes, Americans got it real ez
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
@@souhridyobose4362 well except for math you usually have to remember everything for math.
Would love to see Evan try a GCSE/A-Level Physics or maths exam for a video!
Deffo A-level 😂
CCEA exam board hahahaha that would be torture. I want to see him do a CCEA Further Maths A level paper
I would love to see him do a further maths a level omg
@@amritha_r03 or a chemistry or physics one, they're pretty nasty haha
@@JudeKennedyATCL I've never heard of CCEA before. Just been doing Edexcel and AQA
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. 🤠
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.
@@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.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Crying in Abitur
As if the GCSEs weren’t already hard enough... the government decided to bring out the 1-9 system
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!
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.
NightEchoz thnxs. Good to know it is possible
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
Neelima Alim only good thing is if you get 30% on a higher paper it’s a pass
I remember in my GCSE they gave me the wrong exam paper, I got the English Lit paper the week before everyone else, so I was put in solitary confinement for three hours and made to sign a form stating I'd keep the exam topic and questions completely secret otherwise I'd lose all of my exams, they'd wipe everything 😂😂 and because I never got to do the English Language exam I got an automatic A. Literally the best luck I've ever had.
Also I remember the fire alarm going off in my maths GCSE and we were told to stay put... we could've died, but our lives aren't as important as a world wide timed exam :)
luckiest person in the world 😭
@@etherealcat69 true but 99% of school fire alarms are done by a student, it's entirely possible they wanted to confirm it was genuine before evacuating. In my 7 years of secondary school we only had one genuine fire but probably had 50+ alarms go off. It got that bad that the fire brigrade turned round and said if it goes off again we'll charge the school, to which the school said if we catch you doing it your parents will be sent the bill 😅 it was weird how not many happened after that! 😏
i would have 100% told my friends the exam details
Ah I was just scrolling through and saw Yoongi and screamed so loud! Hey Army 💜
The fire alarm was probably planned, when it is scheduled at my school and we are doing something important we just get told to stay
Dont forget the fact that in England you passing depends on how every other person in the country does.🙄
It's bad how I want everybody around me to fail
I can't believe how true this is and I don't understand why?
@@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
@@Antagonist121 I guess is also because of different exam boards=different difficulty of exams
stupid grade boundaries 😭
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.
UK a levels are harder than most US university exams by the sound of it
@John Saunders My Computer Science degree exams (UK) have maybe 10 out of 100 marks at the start for multiple choice at most
@John Saunders You should know that certain majors, like biochemistry and other stem majors, are not like that (it is also depends on the univ).
No they’re not. AP is equal to IB or A levels.
@Lel E This is speaking as a student who has done both IB and APs. The difficulty of both are about the same
@Lel E Well, in university, AP is equal to IB HL but I think they are somewhere between SL and HL
Evan: do you have to use no. 2 pencils
Jack: no, we use pens
Evan: how do you grade them then?
Jack: with another pen....
In England we gotta memorise 15 poems, 3 novels/Shakespeare plays and then we gotta analyse them in an essay all from our head
John John it’s sad that I can remember the books I read for my GCSE’s over 6 years ago as well as the poems I learned. I hated my exams mostly because of the room we had to be in it was always more scary to go into the hall for my exams I’d rather have the tests in the classroom like my mocks
I did it last week
Lool everyone who had edexcel and got Porter scene for macbeth
In California i only had to do an essay about Romeo and Juliet that was it.
Kind of the same in my country. Also, I don't know if you have that in English speaking countries, but we have A LOT of oral exams. Have to remember a whole analysis of for ex. a book.
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
IB is a European qualification tho isn’t it? I know it’s popular in France and Germany.
@@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.
@@ahuman652 v interesting!
@@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
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
Not allowed to bring the books into your English GCSEs anymore 😢😂 have to memorise quotes
you can at a-level but it has to be a clean copy
I had to memorise quotes for GCSE too. Never saw the point of it, seemed needlessly stressful.
Luka Cherriman no they don’t ^^
Luka Cherriman They don’t?
04nbod completely agree
"the ones about sexual assault aren't fun either"
"OuRs ArE AboUT RAinFoResTs"
That made me giggle
US: I brown-nose my teacher to boost my grade
UK: NO LABELS ON WATER BOTTLES!
And UK people end up smarter
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.
UK: * Sits 27 exams at GCSE, studies 4 exams at AS and at least 3 at A-level, and are told that if you don't get 5 grades between A and C including maths and English you will fail at everything and die by the time you are 30 *
America: "Quizzes are terrifying"
btw that Tinder profile caption for Jack was amazing XD
This is so true.
@@slywata7780 No, their education system is awful, that's a stereotype. Course there are dumb americans, there are dumb people everywhere.
Exactly....now imagine, if you're finding exams in the UK so hard, just imagine the plight of us Asian kids. Just double the work UK kids do.
Sreej ohh yea I’ve never thought of that. My hear goes out to you. Those exams must be hard as heck
no one even typed colour!
"we use pens"
"how are they graded"
"..."
"With another pen"
red pen
Sometimes purple, then we go over them in green
Person 753 eeh?!
Also no more open book exams
No equation sheet for any science subject
GCSE = memory test
Julie what about physics
You get an equation sheet for physics
Yeah but the equation sheet is only a fraction of the ones you need to know and they are all the useless ones
Yeah but you still have to remember most physics equations. You get like 2 questions on the equation sheet on the back but paper 1 physics was just rearranging equations so was lucky there
Charlotte Dreemurr sorry for basically copying your comment my phone didn’t show it for some reason 😂
"you only take 3 or 4 at max"
*looks at my 11 AP tests*
that was probably a bad idea
Did you take them over 2 or 3 years!
@@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
@@reallifekat oh, wow. That’s crazy. How did you do anything but study?
@@nothingtoseeherefolks6911 I didn't
The fire alarm went off in my GCSE History exam and WE WERE TOLD TO JUST KEEP GOING WITH THE EXAM
Bee Lily An invigilator fainted in one of my exams and we were all kinda just like uhh wtf is he ok and he came back in five minutes before the end of the exam and just kept invigilating
@@lizzab605 I'm sorry but that's so funny
Yeah they did that to the years above mine...
No way?! Surely that's breaking health and safety guidelines. How did you even concentrate with a loud alarm?!
@@some_city.girl.x it's bad. If they knew it was a real fire they'd let us out lol but if they know it's a drill or THINK it's a drill we have to stay because if we don't do it then the entire country has to re sit a brand new exam and the exam boards have to make new papers. Otherwise ppl could discuss the answers
relate to Jack saying “we treated our teachers like SHIT” 😂😂😂
Are you sure? All the teachers talk about is how underpaid they are!
The life of a supply teacher is hell on earth.
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.
once had a supply teacher storm out in the first 10 minutes because someone flicked a condom and it slapped her in the face
Americans will never know the pain of A-level maths.
Charlie Johnson i’m thinking of taking it. how bad is it? 😬
Ollie Shaw I wish you luck dude 😂🙏🏾
@@ollieshaw6957 it's not bad, but it's a lot of work. Once you figure a topic out, it's just a matter of practice.
@@ollieshaw6957 it's hell 😭
Charlie Johnson I’m Scottish and just did N5s last year, gcse maths looks so incredibly easy compared to N5
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.
From what I gathered in this video a brain surgeon in America could only have the qualifications for a post man in the UK 😂😂
LMAOOO, THIS COMMENT REMINDED ME OF POST MAN PAT
@@arooj7329 POST MAN PAT POST MAN PAT AND HIS BLACK AND WHITE CAT
@@abeersyed1250 YESSSSSSSS
Guess you forgot about med. school...
@@lavenderaqua2655 no, no I didn’t
"You guys had 14 exams?" Me slowly breaking down over the 23 I'm in the middle of doing right now 😂
Chloe Floyd Same I did my Maths this morning 😭
@@lizzab605 it was horrible
Chloe Floyd try 28😭
23 subjects? Wtf, where did you even get that many subjects? He was saying he takes 14 subject assessments and multiple for each subject
Omds litro😭
Watching two men trying to figure out eachother's country's education system made me realise how unnecessarily complicated it all is.
Gemma Rayner they didn’t even get the Northern Ireland education in 😂
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.
I think this might be my absolute favorite series on TH-cam
@@ahmedelmogi5113 I don't know, for some reason I just find differences between cultures really interesting. Even though the US and the UK aren't that different, I like learning about how they do these simple, everyday things slightly differently. I'm from Norway myself, which means that I can compare with my own culture as well. I'm not sure why I find it so interesting, but I just do
@@idasannes1563 Like any differences between Norway and Sweden
"that just sounds like ur constantly studying"
me, 16, halfway through my gcse's, ACTUALLY failing, getting drunk everynight
Me when I did mine
Gahh only week to go 😭😭
I’m in year 8 and you are worrying me
@@tsu371 just remember to breathe. It's actually not too bad, just exhausting, also I would recommend reviewing everything you do at school, at home, this way it'll stay in your brain and it will really help you in the future, I wish I could have had someone tell me that. Don't stress out, remember they'll be an answer to everything, you just have to recollect your thoughts and approach it in another way, hope this help, good luck in the future ✨
Weemo Tsumiki//mia when you’re taking GCSEs you really start to wonder why you didn’t just revise the things when you first learnt them or why you didn’t make notes sooner. The quicker you understand and know things (start off with simple stuff honestly) it’s easier by gcse. Also I would advise buying the CGP textbooks for science that are based on your exam board bc it has everything in there that you need to know. Also, by gcse they actually split the topics into paper 1 and 2 so it isn’t as stressful as revising it all like my skl made me do for yr 10 and mocks :/ lol soz I went on forever
MULTIPLE CHOICE?!
NO INVIGILATORS?!
CHEAT SHEETSSS?!?!
WTF
Im moving to America now...
Eh no thanks it'll make me dumber
haha
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 🤷♂️
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
We are not even allowed highlighters lol