In the United States, kids who have not learned enough academically have to repeat a year in school. making them a year older than their peers. There's always at least one (sometimes a lot more) in every class who won't get promoted for the following year. I've heard that this doesn't go on in the UK but instead they go into a slower track. Anybody from the UK want to explain how it works over there?.
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1 :
no they just get put in lower sets. but they keep going up a year and then in college they hav 2 pass d exams
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Everybody stays together in the same class/form and are just taught at different levels in groups based on ability. Only in very exceptional circumstaces does a child get held back a year. Sometimes children are put forward if they are doing exceptionally well, but you are right, normally kids don't repeat the year over here. :)
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people dont get held back in primary school, mostly they get help from learning support. normally in secondary school, immigrants start may be held back or put in a year group where they are elder. in sixth form you can be held back if the school thinks your grades were crap.
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No. At least, almost never. I know one child who's a year behind her agegroup, because she had an extremely serious heart operation and missed almost the entire year of school. We don't have tracks, either. Kids are taught the same material, but at different levels (so they might all learn about the same period in history, but some kids would be expected to write a couple of sentences about it while others would be expected to write a short essay). It works about as well as you'd expect, i.e. extremely badly.
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No kids don't repeat years, apart from in extreme circumstances. You don't get kept behind for just having not learnt enough. We have streaming, where you are put into groups for every subject based on ability, it has its pros and cons. Definitely not perfect.
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