Idk know about japan and i'm not a high schooler. I'm wondering what the levels in 10-12th grade are and the age for it
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I am a Japanese. The 10 to 12 grades in the US are equivalent to 1 to 3rd years of senior high school in Japan. Japanese education consists of : 6 years of elementary school (1-6 grades), 3 years of junior high school (7-9 grades) and 3 years of senior high school (10-12 grades) plus higher education: 4 years of undergraduates + 5 years of graduates (2-year Master's degrees + 3 years for Ph.D's) Most children enter the primary education at age 6 and graduate from senior high school at age 18. A school year starts in April and ends in March. For example, children born between 02 April 1986 and 01 April 1987 entered elementary school in April of 1993 and graduated from high school in March of 2005 (unless dropped out or repeated the year). Compulsory education is up until the junior high school (9th grade). Students must pass entrance examinations conducted by each senior high school (scholastic competency required varies across high schools) to go further. Most private institutions (including elementary schools) have their own tests or exams. The general admission to universities are based on the scores on entrance exams. To go to a national/public universities applicants must go through National Center Test for University Admissions　(usually 7 subject tests) and Exams conducted by a school you're applying to. If you are going to for example the School of Engineering University of Tokyo, you have to take exams in mathematics (covered Math I, II, III and Math A,B,C), Japanese (includes classics), foreign language (usually English), and two science subjects (ex. Physics and Chemistry). I am pretty not sure about whether or not levels of Japanese senior high school is concise with American ones since subjects they are learning and academic requirements for colleges are so different. But I can say the entrance exams for some highly selective schools such as the University of Tokyo and the University of Kyoto are made quite hard; some people wishing to enroll into those school but failed spend one or two or more gap years between secondary and higher education studying for the exams (called Ronin); therefore college freshmen are sometimes older than 18 or even 20. In addition, I think Japanese education is quite solid in math. Most students who enter national/public institutions must have mastered at least up to fundamental calculus (not just science/engineering students) which is required for the exams.
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