Australian secondary schools, like China, are all six years, but the time allocation is different, with four years in junior high school and two years in senior high school. The curriculum and difficulty are also different from those of domestic high schools. Let me take you to understand the difficulty of high school curriculum in Australia.

1. What courses are there in high school?

High school subjects in Australia include mathematics, physics, science, society, environment, physical education and English.

Second, what are the characteristics of high school curriculum?

1. The course covers a wide range.

Larger high schools can offer 50-60 courses for students to choose from, and smaller high schools can also offer at least 30 courses; And the high schools in China, from key high schools to ordinary high schools, from large-scale high schools to small-scale high schools, offer almost the same courses.

2. There are fewer required courses

For high school students in Australia, only English is a compulsory course, and other subjects can be regarded as elective courses. For high school students in China, the courses in the first and second academic years are compulsory; Although Chinese and science are optional in the college entrance examination, Chinese, mathematics and foreign languages are all compulsory subjects.

There are many elective courses.

For senior high school students in Australia, except English, all other courses are optional courses. Generally speaking, three points should be considered when choosing a course: students' interest, students' learning ability, and the majors they want to study in the future. For example, students who want to apply for a university's finance major must take a math class in high school; If you want to apply for a medical major, you must take chemistry and biology classes in high school; If you want to apply for translation major, there is no prerequisite for high school elective courses.

Third, how difficult is the high school curriculum?

Generally speaking, you must take six courses to study in Australia 1 1 grade. /kloc-after grade 0/2, the school will advise students to take only five courses. All elective courses can be basically divided into three categories. The first category is English, which is a compulsory course. There are three courses in this category, namely English, ESL and English language. Usually, it is enough to attend ESL courses. The second category includes physics, chemistry, basic mathematics, mathematical methods and specialized mathematics. Among them, mathematical methods are compulsory courses, and the rest are elective courses. The third category is liberal arts, including economics, accounting, business administration, Chinese, Indonesian and so on, all of which are elective courses.

Australian senior high school curriculum is generally not difficult, and the biggest challenge for China students is English reading and thinking ability. Generally speaking, people in China think that mathematics and physics are compulsory, but they don't have to study in Australia. You don't have to study math and physical chemistry, but in this case, there will be great restrictions on choosing a major in a university. Therefore, it is suggested to choose mathematics 1 or 2 courses and physical chemistry 1 or 2 courses, which is more conducive to the university's choice of majors.