In addition to the characteristics of education, primary education has unique basic characteristics: first, universality; The second is mandatory; The third is comprehensiveness. Nine-year compulsory education is implemented in China, and examinations are no longer conducted when primary schools are promoted to junior high schools.
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Primary education is generally a six-year system, which is divided into three stages: the first and second grades are called lower grades, the third and fourth grades are called middle grades, and the fifth and sixth grades are called higher grades. At the beginning of 1970, based on the concept of "education should be revolutionized and the length of schooling should be shortened", the six-year primary school system was changed to five-year primary school system. 1979, the five-year system changed back to the six-year system.
The study fields of primary school curriculum in Taiwan Province Province mainly include Chinese learning (including Chinese, English, Minnan, Hakka and Aboriginal languages, Chinese is called the national language in primary schools and Chinese in middle schools), life curriculum (subjects in primary schools 1 and grade 2, which are the combination of nature and life science and technology and society), mathematics, society, nature and life science and technology, art and humanities, health and sports, and flexibility.