In America, we do things a bit differently
The grade system for Grammar school education is 1-5. After 5th grade, 6-8, you are considered to be in middle school. After 8th grade, 9-12, it's high school. In grammar school, or Elementary school, all kids have the same subjects and are all taught by one teacher. In middle school, kids rotate from class to class, as different teachers teach different subjects. But for the most part, all of the kids go together. In high school, it's an individual class schedule. Usually, all you have to do in America is barely pass, and they are supposed to graduate you. If you do not pass, you go to summer school, which is a 1 month school in the summer to teach missed education. Miss 3 days of that, and you have to repeat the grade. Some high schools require exit exams to graduate high school, and some don't. In highschool, you have to take the SAT's and/or ACT's if you plan to go to college. The SAT is a standardized academic test for colleges to compare if you are qualified enough to partake in their course. Usually, the eastern United States only require the SAT's. The ACT's are the same thing, it stands for American College Testing and is pretty more straightforward in test taking than the SAT's. Western colleges uses the ACT's. The maximum score on the SAT's is 2400, and most Ivy league colleges require 1900 or higher, which is EXTREMELY hard to make. The max for ACT is 36. I'm not all too familiar with that, so I don't want to get things wrong
I for one got an 1875 on my SATs, so I am pretty muched guaranteed a great college, even if it is not the best college
. The average score on that test in America is a 1200.