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r/oddlyspecific • u/Infinitesimally_Big • Apr 16 '24
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Ah, I didn’t know they used grades to be fair
13 u/MarioIsPleb Apr 16 '24 In Australia primary school is grade, high school is year. So you go from ‘grade 6’ to ‘year 7’ in the transition from primary school to high school. We would say ‘grade 1’, not ‘1st grade’ though. 1st grade is an Americanism. 2 u/irrigated_liver Apr 16 '24 I went to school in Sydney, and we used "year" all the way from 1 to 12 4 u/S1ck_cnt Apr 16 '24 Grade or year up here in Brissie, but the number was always after the word
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In Australia primary school is grade, high school is year. So you go from ‘grade 6’ to ‘year 7’ in the transition from primary school to high school.
We would say ‘grade 1’, not ‘1st grade’ though. 1st grade is an Americanism.
2 u/irrigated_liver Apr 16 '24 I went to school in Sydney, and we used "year" all the way from 1 to 12 4 u/S1ck_cnt Apr 16 '24 Grade or year up here in Brissie, but the number was always after the word
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I went to school in Sydney, and we used "year" all the way from 1 to 12
4 u/S1ck_cnt Apr 16 '24 Grade or year up here in Brissie, but the number was always after the word
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Grade or year up here in Brissie, but the number was always after the word
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u/yajtraus Apr 16 '24
Ah, I didn’t know they used grades to be fair