HELP
what grade does he teach?
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I would imagine that they would have been 15-16 years old which would be their last year of school (which would now be year 11).
In the uk you have;
11 years of school until the age of 15 or 16(compulsory)
2 years of college or sixth form (optional)
then university.
I think they're what would be year 10 (14-15) now, I think they called it 4th form back then but I'm not sure. School in the UK was only complusory to 15 back then and most working class kids (from what I gathered from my mother and other people I know around the same age) left as soon as they could and got jobs rather than to stay on to do their exams.
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Yes, probably fourth year seniors.
Infant school: ages 5 & 6.
Junior school: years one to four (ages 7 to 10)
Senior school: years one to five (ages 11 to 16), followed by the lower sixth and the next year, the upper sixth.
After that, for the rare few (in the sixties, and especially in the East End of London), university (sometimes called college, but never referred to as a "school", by my recollection).
Some time after I left school the system switched to a continuous numbering system, so that I had to deduct 4 from my kids' ages to work out what year they were in. (I haven't got m'head around kilograms and metres, yet, either.)
Another random bit of useless information: students at British universities "read" a subject; they don't "major" in it.
Shame there is actually a bit more to it than just reading, otherwise I might have gone to Uni!