11:24 Apr 1, 2015 |
English language (monolingual) [PRO] Education / Pedagogy / School Report | |||||||
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4 +9 | No: leave; not finish, not graduate |
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3 | leave or graduate |
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leave or graduate Explanation: In the US students certainly seem to 'graduate' from High Schools: cf: http://www.forbes.com/pictures/fjle45hklm/10-high-paying-job... And that terms is widely used in English materials referencing secondary school leavers in other countries. It is NOT commonly used in the UK, where 'graduate' indeed implies completing a course of higher education and a degree. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 31 mins (2015-04-01 11:55:57 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- An (important) note inspired by @Charles Davis 's answer: 'Graduate' implies successful completion. 'Leaving', in the situation in which there is an option of continuation suggests (unless I am reading it wrong) that the full course of secondary education is not completed, and thus, 'graduate' would not be appropriate here. But if we are talking about let's say Year 2 students moving on to Year 3 vs being kept behind to repeat Year 2, and let's say Year 6 (final) students leaving/graduating vs being kept behind to repeat the year, then 'graduate' is possible UNLESS you are talking about a British system. |
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No: leave; not finish, not graduate Explanation: The use of "graduate" in this is a straightforward American/British English difference. In the US students do graduate from high school, as well as from university; in the UK and Ireland etc. they finish or complete secondary education and only graduate from university. Your text, by the way, is clearly British (or at least not American): "form master" alone marks it as such. But that is not what your text is about anyway. Graduate or finish refer to completing the whole sequence of secondary studies (and nearly always, if not always, refer to completing post-secondary education, that is, A-level in British terms). But that's not what's involved in your text. The fact that one of the options is to go on to the next form shows that this is about a decision being taken in the course of secondary education, before it has been completed. So graduating or finishing at this point is not an option. Option (b) refers to the possibility of the student leaving the school before having completed the full course of study. So neither graduate nor leave would fit here. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 23 mins (2015-04-01 11:48:40 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- If option (b) were implemented, at a point before finishing compulsory education, the student would have to be placed in another institution; he or she couldn't finish and leave education permanently at that point. If it were post-16, leaving the school could mean abandoning his or her education. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 28 mins (2015-04-01 11:52:54 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- To put it simply, this is about what happens if a student passes or fails a year of secondary school study. If they pass, option (a) applies: they go on to the next year (form, grade). If they fail, either they have to leave the school (b) or repeat the year (c). This is presumably about a private (non-state) school, which can require students who fail a year of study to leave. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2015-04-01 12:42:44 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Please note that, as Sheila says, I meant to write "ne¡ther graduate nor FINISH would fit here"; "leave" does fit. |
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