EDUCATION

____ from Finland schools gain some highest grades in the world in reading, mathematics, and science.

As I see, not everyone has the same _____ at school. Some schools have their own books and target.

Many schools are ___ schools, which is run by the government. But there are also ____ fee-paying schools exist. There were a few about 10 years ago, but there are more anh more recently.

Some people think children in Vietnam have a lot of ___ every day, and so do I. They usually have 1 or 2 compulsory exams each year, and also some competitions.

As there are lots of schools in Vietnam, especially in HCM city, most of students are encouraged to follow academic stream until they are 18 - that's when they finish grade 12. They have to study hard and take many compulsory ___

In Vietnam, children attend ___ ___ at the age of 6 and move to ___ ___ when they are 11 years old. They are not combined like in some countries.

As I know, when the children in Finland are 16, the pupils are separated into 2 streams; ______ stream which focuses on traditional subjects, and ____ stream which concentrates on practical work-based subjects.

As I see, children have Maths, Vietnamese, and English as their _____ subjects during the first nine years. But then they can choose what they want to concentrate on.