Originally Posted by Oblivion

Glad you enjoyed it!
It was fun to write as well, specially since I wasn't so sure of the answer at the start.



Depends on which system you're comparing it to, I guess.

At 6 years old you get into 1st grade.
At 10 years old you get into the 5th grade.
At 12 you get into the 7th grade.


At 15 you get into the 10th grade, which corresponds to the start of highschool, I think, since it's the beginning of the so called secondary education.
Here you get to pick between a Science and Technology path, an Economics path, an Arts one and a Social Sciences one.
I chose the Science and Technology one, and so went through the 3 years of highschool with subjects like Maths, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, etc.

So at 18 I finished highschool like most students do, and applied for Medicine around August of that same year.
Around September I got accepted and so I started the course later that month, while still being 18.

Finished the 1st year with 19 years old, and now I finished the 2nd year with 20 years old.
Medicine is divided into pre-clinical years (the first 3) and clinal years (the last 3).

That's the standard model around here. I never skipped or fell behind a year.

What's the difference from your country, William?