In June, the high school entrance examination and the college entrance examination are coming, and the tension is full, but we all know that the exam is not the end, and what kind of school to go to is our focus!
Today, we will take you to learn about another path: studying abroad after the high school entrance examination!
Study abroad after the high school entrance examination
There are three major paths to study abroad after the high school entrance examination, including going directly to a private school in the UK, attending an international school in China, and studying IGCSE full-time at home.
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The application process and precautions for private schools in the UK
Gaining admission to a prestigious private secondary school in the UK, especially the Nine Public Schools, is a daunting task that requires parents and students to start preparing 2-3 years or even more in advance. This includes understanding the school's registration process, test dates, required testing abilities, and specific admission criteria.
The application process involves multiple admission nodes, such as 4+, 7+, 11+, 13+, 16+, etc., and Chinese students often choose 13+ or 16+.
In Chinese mainland, the ninth-grade graduation exam, also known as the middle school entrance examination. According to the general application process, the completion and 13+ and 16+ application processes match the student's grade level roughly as follows (the corresponding domestic grade is in parentheses):
🍀Y5 (Grade 4): Registration for 13+ in some top private schools is open
🍀Y6 (Grade 5): Some top private schools have 13+ entrance exams in progress; Elite private schools 13+ application registration continues to be open
🍀Y7 (Grade 6): Top private school 13+ application closed; 13+ admissions are starting to open and admissions are nearing the end
🍀Y8 (Grade 7): Some private schools 13+ can apply or make up for admission; Most of the 13+ applications have been decided
🍀Y9 (Grade 8): 13+ students (if you miss the 13+ application, you can consider preparing for 14+ registration and examination depending on the arrangement of the school in the current year)
🍀Y10 (Grade 9): Students who want to sprint to a good school need to pay attention to the opening time of school registration in the second half of Y10 semester and register for 16+ (14+ students are officially enrolled; Some schools have 15+ places)
🍀Y11 (Grade 10): September-October, 16+ registration ends; From October to February, the school entrance examination is held
13+ applications need to be registered 1-3 years in advance, and the registration must be completed by September 30 of the fall semester. Private schools such as Harrow, Eton, Winchester and other private schools generally need to register 3 years in advance to apply for Year 9 admission.
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You can also apply to international schools and admissions policies
New changes in 2024, there is still a chance to lose the high school entrance examination!
This year, the situation is slightly different, and popular schools such as Lingke, Lightsaber, World Foreign Language, and WLSA Shanghai will arrange an open day exam after the high school entrance examination, and before the results of the high school entrance examination are released.
For you to briefly summarize a part of this year's high school entrance examination after the transition to international schools, international school examination/open day time:
✅1. WLSA Shanghai School
Exam Date: 22 June 2024 (Saturday)
✅2. Lingke Education Shanghai Campus
Exam Date: 29 June 2024 (Saturday)
✅3. Guanghua Cambridge
Exam date: Saturday morning, June 22, 2024
✅4. SIIC Cambridge International High School
Exam date: June 23, 2024 (Sunday) at 13:00 p.m
✅5. Shanghai Dongguang Sino-Japanese International High School
Exam date: June 23, 2024 (Sunday) at 13:00 p.m
✅6. Concord Pudong International Curriculum Center
Exam Date: June 22, 2024 (Saturday)
✅7. Shanghai Liaoyuan Bilingual Senior High School
Test date: June 23 (Sunday) afternoon
✅8. Shenghua Zizhu College
Exam Date: 30 June 2024 (Sunday)
✅9. Shanghai Qingpu District Union Bilingual School
Exam Date: June 22, 2024 (Saturday)
✅10. Shanghai Ziao High School
Exam Date: June 23, 2024 (Sunday)
✅11. Shanghai Minhang District Union Bilingual Science and Education School
Test Date: Tuesday, June 25
✅12. HD Shanghai School
Test Date: June 29 (Sat)
For example, the day before yesterday (June 2), Pinghe held an 8-9 transfer exam, although the selected students were admitted to Qingpu Pinghe, but it did provide an opportunity to enter Pinghe in advance! The third autumn recruitment exam is finalized! After the high school entrance examination!
The subjects examined in the 8-9 exam are: Chinese, Mathematics, and English.
Review of the Pinghe transfer examination on June 2
✔ Written language test
Exam duration: 50 minutes
Exam content: only one writing is examined, first read a poem, write inspiration, 400-500 words (no style limit)
Topic: Choose one of the two
Theme 1: What I Experienced as "Alive"
Theme 2: Should we pursue or go to peace
Language Poetry: The Tired Rusher
Poet: Xiantao Liu
He stood in the desolate wilderness
Mud covered the body
In the blank eyes
Still looking forward to poetry and distance
The area is full of swamps
The clouds did not open for months
People who don't have a compass
It's just a fool's errand
Exhausted
Exhausted
The bamboo cane broke
The shoes are rotten
Will it beat the horse lightly?
Die
Resign yourself to your fate
Be realistic
Make a frog or lobster
Make your home in place
✔ Written test in English
Exam duration: 60min
Exam format: Reading + Writing
1. Read: Footage taken by a drone shows the scale of damage to a landslide in Papua New Guinea
Questions:
Fill in the blanks with 10 word choices
2 vocabulary questions
Read 2 multiple-choice questions
Read 5 multiple-choice questions
Read 1 short-answer question
2.写作：Someone sits in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. 请谈一谈你对于前人栽树，后人乘凉的看法。
✔ Written Mathematics Test
Exam duration: 60min
Question type: 12 fill-in-the-blank questions, 5 multiple-choice questions, 3 major questions
1. The multiple-choice questions cover equations and geometry, and the fill-in-the-blank questions include algebra and geometry.
2. The new definition, function analysis, and the moving point problem of the trapezoid are examined respectively.
*The above test information comes from the candidates' memories and online collation, and is for reference only.
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Study IGCSE full-time at home
If you don't want to go to a private school or an international school for the first time, you can also choose a reliable institution to study IGCSE for 1-2 years.
IGCSE can help with A-level learning, first and foremost, it provides the foundation for the various subjects of A-level. IGCSE also works on English skills, and IGCSE also works on English skills.
If you are in the first year of high school, or if you do not have a solid foundation in China and want to take precautions to avoid problems when you are exposed to international courses, it is recommended that you start with IGCSE, which is mainly to help students better transition to international courses and lay a foundation for A-level learning.
Wenlan is an officially authorized test center of the A-level examination board, equipped with excellent teachers! The instructors graduated from famous overseas schools, and have many years of teaching experience in A-level/IGCSE and other international courses, and are very familiar with the British local and international versions of the curriculum, which can be compatible with different examination boards, so it is worth choosing with confidence.
Study abroad after the college entrance examination
The results of the college entrance examination applied for G5, and I asked for a second to persuade me to quit... Not only are the grades required to be high, many require more than 600 points, and the language barrier is also a problem. The preparatory department has to waste another year, and the choice of good schools is limited, and the same is true for the international freshman, and the level of 2+2 Chinese-foreign cooperative schools is uneven, and the study abroad experience may be greatly reduced.
In fact, if you want to study abroad after the college entrance examination, it is better to transfer to A-level, and apply directly to a British university after getting the ideal results, and there are a wide range of university choices and majors.
Consider applying again after a year, and switch to the A-level international curriculum route this year, because you already have the foundation of the college entrance examination, you only need to strengthen the language and make up for the difference in the knowledge points of the curriculum, you have a high probability of getting good results, so as to enter a better British university.
A-level learning is easy to get started, you only need to study 3 subjects to apply for university, and the college entrance examination knowledge overlap is very high, the knowledge is wider, teaching and answering questions in English, but the difficulty is lower than the college entrance examination, so more and more students consider changing to the "dual track system".
As long as the grades reach A/A*, and the background and comprehensive ability are strong, they will have the opportunity to win the favor of the world's TOP100.
Lecture! One year after the college entrance examination, I studied ALevel full-time and won the QST0P9 British UCL mechanical engineering offer! Dismantle the three core strategies! 06/10 Week-15:00-16:00, Mr. Feng will guide you through the maze, scan the code to register and make an appointment!
If you feel that it is too late to change tracks in the third year of high school, you can actually change the track in the first and second years of high school if you have the conditions.
For students looking for more learning opportunities outside of the gaokao, there are two paths to choose from.
The first is to study A-level full-time, get rid of the pressure of the college entrance examination, and focus on the study of international courses. The second "dual system" allows students to prepare for the college entrance examination and A-level at the same time, and use their spare time to study A-level while maintaining their domestic high school studies. This path is especially suitable for students who have a wait-and-see attitude towards further study abroad, but want to have more choices, because it provides double insurance, which not only protects the opportunity of domestic college entrance examinations, but also opens the way to international education.
For example, our 24fall applicant student Z, who changed his domestic high school route and submitted an application after half a year of A-level study, with an application score of 4A*1A, and won a UCL/Durham/Aibao/St. Ann's CS offer, where the UCL CS offer is an unconditional admission offer!
Basic information of student Z
学术成绩：A*A*A*A*A, 雅思6.5（6.0）
申请院校：cs专业：UCL，IC，Durham，StAndrews，Edinburgh
竞赛活动：step2 grade3、mat暂时不知道分数
What offers are you getting so far: except for IC
Favorite saying: The plan is in the people, and the success is in the sky
For students who are about to end the high school entrance examination, if you plan to start the study of international courses, we have prepared super rich multi-disciplinary and multi-type learning materials, this [Summer Pilot Fuel Package], including course selection guides, subject outlines, electronic textbooks of popular subjects, and vocabulary manuals, please follow the prompts to receive!
The A-level programme is designed for students who dream of a prestigious UK university, covering 1-2 years of A-level study and language enhancement to help you achieve your dream university in 2025/2026. As an officially authorized test center, we can be trusted.
Students in the second and third years of high school who apply for foreign universities, apply for foreign bachelor's degrees after the college entrance examination or are studying at universities, have average grades in international schools or British high schools, reiterate students, and students who want to continue their A-level studies in British high schools when they transfer back to China. The curriculum covers traditional subjects such as mathematics, physics and chemistry, and adds art, Chinese, psychology, etc., and students can choose 3 subjects to study.
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