First, the overall improvement of English ability.
If you go abroad to study in high school, you can master English earlier and better. The younger you are, the stronger your ability to imitate and learn a language. Studying in foreign high schools can help students master English as soon as possible. At home, to reach the same level, you may need to graduate from the regular English department, and your ability to use English as a tool may not be as good as those children who are studying in high schools abroad. English learning is closely related to age and language environment. In the teaching environment of Australian senior high schools, lectures, notes, discussions, homework and exams for international students are all done in English. In addition, most life scenes (shopping, banks, post offices, transportation, travel and parties, etc. ) is also done in English. Therefore, students' English learning potential and ability will be fully reflected in a pure English environment. After two years of high school courses in Australia, students' English ability can generally reach the level of domestic English majors. Moreover, English learning in China has a strong color of exam-oriented education, so it is difficult to improve the ability to actually use English in the domestic environment. In Australia, as long as children are willing to fully contact and communicate with local teachers, students and society, English ability is relatively easy to improve.
Second, choose a school, have a wide range of employment and have flexible education.
You can choose courses flexibly according to your hobbies and career planning. The elective system is widely used in foreign high schools. When students enter high school, they must choose courses, face their hobbies and think about their future independently. Students are eager for knowledge and have a clear direction. The courses they are interested in are motivated to learn, and it is easy to get high marks, and finally it is easy to enter ideal universities and majors. Under the flexible course selection system abroad, students with "partial subjects" can make full use of their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, not only get better grades, but also continue to study their favorite subjects and majors, and go abroad to study in high schools in the future, laying a good foundation for their smooth entry into world-class universities in the future. After finishing high school abroad, those who have passed the exam (many countries don't have the college entrance examination system of "one exam for life" in China) can freely choose any suitable university and major with local students according to their grades. As long as they work hard enough, they will have a chance to enter a world-class prestigious school. Many parents hope that their children will become doctors and lawyers abroad in the future, but unfortunately, foreign universities generally do not accept China high school students to study medicine or law, or set some difficult conditions to restrict their admission. If China students want to realize this wish, it is a better choice to go abroad to study in high school. After graduating from high schools abroad, China students, like local children, are free to choose suitable universities and majors without any restrictions.
Third, the humanized course and course completion selection system and the humanized evaluation and continuing education system.
Like China, secondary schools in Australia are composed of six years, but the difference is that junior high schools in Australia are four years (grade 7- 10) and senior high schools are two years (grade 1 1- 12). During the two years of high school, students generally need to take 6-8 academic courses, and the curriculum has the following characteristics:
The course covers a wide range. Larger high schools can offer 50-60 courses for students to choose from, and smaller high schools can also offer at least 30 courses; And the high schools in China, from key high schools to ordinary high schools, from large-scale high schools to small-scale high schools, offer almost the same courses. There are few required courses. For high school students in Australia, only English is a compulsory course, and other subjects can be regarded as elective courses. For high school students in China, the courses in the first and second academic years are compulsory; Although Chinese and science are optional in the college entrance examination, Chinese, mathematics and foreign languages are all compulsory subjects. There are many elective courses. For senior high school students in Australia, except English, all other courses are optional courses. Generally speaking, there are three points to consider when choosing a course. The first is students' interest, the second is students' learning ability, and the third is to combine the majors that students want to study in college in the future. For example, students who want to apply for a university's finance major must take a math class in high school; If you want to apply for a medical major, you must take chemistry and biology classes in high school. High school graduates in China need to go through two days of college entrance examination to enter domestic universities; Whether the college entrance examination in these two days is performed well or not is of decisive significance for candidates to enter the university. In Australia, continuous evaluation system is used to evaluate high school students. In the two years of high school, students' usual homework, attendance rate, usual exams, final exams and final exam results will affect students' scores of graduating from high school and entering universities to varying degrees.
According to the different relationship between normal grades and HKCEE grades, the "continuous evaluation system" of high schools in various States and regions of Australia is divided into two categories.
The first one is 100 of the total grade (1 1 and 12), and HKCEE's grade is only used to adjust the difference between schools, such as the Capital Region (Canberra), Queensland (Brisbane) and Tasmania (Hobart). If students take part in high school courses in these areas, as long as they carefully grasp and devote themselves to every day's study, they will master the fate of going to school two years later. On the other hand, if you don't study hard at ordinary times, there won't be a lifeline in the end.
The second is that the usual grades (only 12) account for 50% of the total scores, and the final exam scores account for 50% of the total scores, such as New South Wales (Sydney), Victoria (Melbourne) and South Australia (Adelaide).
The humanization of the evaluation and admission system of Australian high schools is not only reflected in the "two-year evaluation system", but also in the fact that students' superior courses will be fully considered when grading admission and students' inferior courses will be avoided. Take the high schools in the Capital Region (Canberra) as an example. In two years, students usually choose four main courses and four minor courses. In the final senior high school entrance examination, choose the best three main courses and the minor course of 1 to calculate the final score. If the scores of the four sub-courses are lower than those of the four main courses, the main course can be used as a sub-course to calculate the scores.