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UNIT 14: EDUCATION

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What percentage of children in Britain go to public schools?

a)

more than 90%

b)

about 50%

c)

less than 10%

2.

What percentage of children in Britain go to independent schools?

a)

more than 90%

b)

about 50%

c)

less than 10%

3.

What proportion of 17-year-olds in England study a foreign language?

a)

more than 90%

b)

about 50%

c)

less than 10%

4.

What proportion of 20-year-olds in Britain study at university?

a)

more than 65%

b)

about 35%

c)

less than 15%

5.

Most British children between the ages of five and eleven go to ... schools.

a)

junior

b)

prep

c)

primary

6.

Most British children between the ages of eleven and sixteen go to ... schools

a)

comprehensive

b)

grammar

c)

technical

7.

At which of these places could you not study for A-levels?

a)

further education college

b)

sixth form college

c)

grade school

8.

What is the typical number of subjects studied at school by students in their second year of A-levels?

a)

one

b)

three

c)

five

9.

What kind of qualification does a student who completes a course of undergraduate university study in Physics normally get?

a)

Cert. Phys

b)

DipSc

c)

BSc

10.

Which of these schools is the odd one out (different from the others)?

a)

Eton

b)

Harrow

c)

Summerhill

11.

What are the hours of the typical school day in Britain?

a)

8.00 a.m to 3.00 p.m

b)

9.00 a.m to 4.00 p.m

c)

9.00 a.m to 5.00 p.m

12.

Compared to the European average, how long is the school year in Britain?

a)

long

b)

short

c)

about average

13.

What is the word used to describe the act of submitting written work as your own when in reality is was written by someone else?

a)

impersonation

b)

plagiarism

c)

revisionism

14.

How long do most university students in England take to graduate?

a)

three years

b)

four years

c)

five years

15.

... is the three basic skills which should be taught in primary school.

(a)  

16.

... is the meeting of everybody in a school at the start of the day.

(a)  

17.

... is a place where very young children go (like kindergarten or a crèche)

(a)  

18.

... is the practice of grouping students of the same ability together.

(a)  

19.

... are subjects which students have to study.

(a)  

20.

... is a school whose students live there.

(a)  

21.

... is money given to poorer university students to help them with living expenses.

(a)  

22.

... is a badly-behaved child who has not learnt any discipline or cooperation.

(a)  

23.

... is a period of the school year (there are usually three of them)

(a)  

24.

... are the exams which older teenagers take when they are trying to go to university.

(a)  

25.

... are universities, typically in cities, which started in the nineteenth century.

(a)  

26.

... are the two universities of Oxford and Cambridge

(a)