🇪🇸 schooling system for reference:
· Kindergarten = 3 years (mandatory)
· Primary school = 6 years (mandatory)
· Secondary school = 4 years (mandatory)
· *Upper* high school = 2 years (you can choose between Science, Social, Language or Arts)
· University access exams
· University = usually 4 years plus masters and all that

we have 6 years of primary and 3 years of secondary which are mandatory. After that we have 3 years of high school / vocational school and then uni

new government plans to make third stage mandatiry

which means that the level of high schools will drop dramatically

the difference between middle and high school is already quite large

The shittiest/hardest thing in 🇪🇸's school system is the ban on homeschooling, the indoctrination and the fact that is not unified at all.

If you change regions, you might go from a dumbfuck to a "smart guy" in your class or vice versa.

that sucks

here your GPA decides your high school, before that school has little difference

i've been lucky enough to have good teachers but i've heard horror stories

idk if there's an entrance exam to university in Spain but it's really difficult to get in one here

Also, the combination of your average score on your final year of upper high school PLUS the average score on the university access exams is gonna decide your whole future.

Every teen, before entering those exams, must choose SIX options.

You have to choose a degree plus the university where you want to study.

You can either choose 6 degrees on 1 university, 1 degree on 6 universities or whatever, right?

Your score and that election determines your future.

If "OPTION A" has 100 places for that promotion, either you're inside the 100 best scores or you can't choose it.

For example, studying Medicine in some universities in big cities requires crazy average scores of like 8,9/10.

Medicine + big city is always the killer score

Meanwhile, the Canary Islands are notorious for having the lowest bar for "interesting" degrees as the universities there are somewhat oversize when compared to the actual population.

same here

everyone wants to go to Helsinki

if you can game the system you can get in relativelly easily

but everyone wants to go to the same school

because reasons

"Canarians (or whatever the word) entering Medicine" http://twitter.com/angelrinconr6/status/1135903664751685635

haha

I've heard stories of people moving to the Canary Islands for like 1-2 years to start Medicine and other stuff, then asking to be moved to a major city back in the mainland.

heard same stories here as well

No matter the degree, the success rate is incredibly low.

but i've heard that the canary island is a really nice place to be in

I'm a failed English Philologist (I passed 2 out of 4 years) and, out of my promotion of like 120 people, only 10 or so passed in the standard time (4 years).

A ton of people left, a couple of dozens have needed 5-6 years... and it's incredibly common no matter the degree or the year.

then i'm a strange beast, how many points are you supposed to get in one year? 60?. I was told that nobody achieves that. Got over 60 quite easily

just takes a lot of work

I tried to be "smart" with choosing options and lost all motivation due to the global crysis.

I chose both Journalism and English Philology in 3 nearby universities.

I like writing, I like investigating, I've done it for fun several times and even got paid for a couple of years. Also, I think I'd make a half-decent teacher.

I got my 4th option (English Philology on the nearest uni, Journalism is quite popular even though it's not essential to getting a journalistic job) and like 9 months later the whole global crysis was a big thing.

Government cutting funding on schools and all that plus the declining birth rate made me see that I wasn't going to have a nice future, that I was effectively losing my time.

It didn't help that, after years of enjoying motorsports broadcasts from 🇺🇸, my accent was irremediably rigid and far from the Harry Potter-like bullshit they wanted me to sound like.