Title: Comparative essay-Compare and Contrast Singapore and Australian Education Systems
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Education is becoming very important now. Students can learn a lot of knowledge in schools. This can help them find jobs easily and with the job’s people can contribute to the development of their countries. Each Country has its own education system that helps its people. The following essay will explain the similarities and the differences between two developed countries such as Australia and Singapore.
One of the similarities is that school calendar of both types of school system. Both of them have four terms and some small breaks in one year. For example, the school will start in January and finish in December. In both countries, the longest holiday is about 6 or 7 weeks long, which is between December and January. Furthermore, the timetable of two school systems is almost same. For instance, in the schools of both countries, classes are on Monday to Friday, 8:45 am to 3 pm, the students will have break for lunch ("Attention Required! | CloudFlare," n.d.) ("About Australian education," n.d.). Thus, the Australian school system and Singapore school system have similar schedule.
The next similarity is both types of school help students gain more experiences. …show more content…
In Australian, they only have one formal exam in the end of high school ("About Australian education," n.d.), but in Singapore, they have more exams than Australian. For example, they have many exams which are named of PSLE, O Level and A level in Singapore ("Attention Required! | CloudFlare," n.d.). In contrast, the Australian education system is more relax than the Singapore education system. As a result, the Singapore education system will make the students feel more stressful than the Australian education