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[tufguy]

Hi guys,

If we want to ask somebody till what class did he or she study then can we say "How much did you study" or "have you studied"?

 

[Matthew Wai]

'Up to what grade have you studied?'
I think it should make sense.

Not a teacher.

 

[tzfujimino]

'Up to what grade have you studied?'

Hello.:-D
I'd like to ask a question here.

What would be the expected answer to the question?

 

[bhaisahab]

Hello.:-D
I'd like to ask a question here.

What would be the expected answer to the question?

"11th grade", for example.

 

[tzfujimino]

Thank you, bhai.:-D
I think the question is a bit different from the one the OP was trying to make.
(tufguy used the word 'class'.)

 

[bhaisahab]

The words "class", "grade", "standard", etcetera are used in different parts of the world to mean the same thing.

 

[emsr2d2]

In the UK, you would be able to ask "At what age did you finish studying?" to lead to the same thing. If the answer was "16", I would know the person finished secondary school (having taken CSEs, O Levels or GCSEs). If the answer was "18", then I would know they finished college (A Levels at Sixth Form College or a vocational course at technical college). I they said "21" or "22", then I would be pretty confident that they completed university.

In the UK, we have only recently started using "4th grade", "11th grade" etc. It has been adopted from the American system I think. I still have to work it out mathematically when someone says that their child is in "X grade". I take the number of the grade and add it to 5 (the age at which a child starts school). So after doing the sum, I understand that a child who is in 8th grade is 13 (approximately). For me, that means they're in their second year of secondary school!

When I was at school, I was in "Fives/Sixes/Sevens/Eights" (first/primary school), then class "1C, 2E, 3L and 4S" (middle/junior school) and "Second year, third year, fourth year and fifth year" at secondary school. At sixth form college, I was in the Lower Sixth and then Upper Sixth.

 

[MikeNewYork]

In the UK, do students ever get pushed ahead by skipping a certain grade/class/year? In the US this is called double promotion, e.g. moving directly from 4th grade to 6th grade. This can complicate judging level by age.

 

[emsr2d2]

Very, very occasionally, a child can skip a year but it's really not common. There are genius children who sometimes take, for example, the exams for 16-year-olds when they are only 10 years old. Such a child would probably then be home-schooled because schools here aren't really geared up for having a child in a class who is 2 or 3 years older than his/her classmates.

 

[MikeNewYork]

Thanks.

I think that would be two or three years younger than his/her classmates. And yes, that creates socialization issues.

 

[emsr2d2]

Oops! Yes, of course, younger than the rest of the class.

Edited to fix duplicate error!

 

[MikeNewYork]

You did it again!

 

[emsr2d2]

Aarrrrggggghhhhhh.

In my defence, I drank a lot of beer last night and was then up till 3am watching a fantastic electrical storm. I have now edited the second example of my error. Must be time for a nap.

 

[MikeNewYork]

Not a problem. Beer is good. Sleep is a good antidote. :lol: