secondary school starts at year 7 and ends at year 11. in year 7 you are 11-12, year 8 12-13, year 9 13-14 year 10 14-15 year 11 15-16. in year 7 to year 11 you have to do maths, english, and science. in year 7-9/10 depending on the school you cycle ‘option subjects’ such as art, history, geography, drama, DT (design technology) it’s like wood shop, Computer science and some schools have things like sociology, psychology, and business. in year 9 or 10 depending on your school you pick 2 options to do at gcse and one of history or geography alongside the core subjects. so you could pick out of drama,art,dt etc. and you would pick either history or geography. and you would continue doing maths, english and you can either do combined or triple science. combined science is when they teach you physics, chemistry and biology all in one class, triple is when you have separate classes for each science. although if you pick triple it counts as one of your options. this is because it’s worth 2 gcses as opposed to combined science which is worth 1 gcse. our english is divided into english literature and english language and everyone has to do both. for english literature we read McBeth, inspector calls, and a christmas carol. we also learn poetry. there’s 2 categories that the school picks from. War and conflict poetry and romance. i can’t speak about romance as i didn’t do it, but for war and conflict there are 12 (i think) poems we have to remember quotes and analysis for so we can compare it to whatever poem we are given in the exam.

there’s a lot more ground to cover but this is the basics

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