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I think it's a little more complicated than that. As I understand it, at the end of school Scottish students take "Higher" exams, and then can either apply to
by aninhumer 9y ago
I think it's a little more complicated than that.
As I understand it, at the end of school Scottish students take "Higher" exams, and then can either apply to university then, or continue in school and take "Advanced Higher" exams first. And often people doing the latter can skip the first year of university. (As well as people from the UK with good A-level results.)
So while there's the possibility to do an extra year, I think in practice it's mostly equivalent to the UK system.
- arethuza 9y agoI'm from Scotland, went to a Scottish University and have a teenage son who just went through the process... Highers are taken at the end of 5th year - with the 6th year being used for topping up results if they weren't good enough, acquiring Advanced Highers - which are quite often not really required and going to parties... Some people go to Uni right after the highers (my wife did this and regretted it) and some go into second year directly with Advanced Highers - but very few people I know do either. Schools certainly recommend against both.
- aninhumer 9y agoYeah, I was just commenting as a former student in England (just realised I said UK above...) who looked into it briefly. It sounds like you have far more experience of this, so thanks for elaborating.