The Importance Of Education In Serbia

Six-year-old kids would start their adventure with the education system in Serbia. It is required for all the kids to go and educate themselves. Before they go to the school children would have to take different tests, so child psychologist could see if they are ready to go to the school. Elementary school is eight years long in Serbia. First two grades it would be really easy for all the children. They would not have a lot of homework to do whenever they come back from the school. But in the third grade everybody has to take English as a second language. “Research shows that foreign language study improves cognitive abilities, positively influences achievement in other disciplines, and results in higher achievement test scores, especially …show more content…
After students graduate from high school, they would have to take different exams to earn enough points to go to college. In this case student’s GPA would count as 40 points and exams are worth 60. In the American college students could go to the same school and major in different things, but not in Serbia. All of us had to make the biggest decisions in our lives when we were 18 years old. That was time when you would decide what is going to be your major, and there was no coming back from that. People who wanted to major in chemistry would have to go to Pharmacy College, student’s that wanted to major in law had to go to the Law College. There was no classes such as genaid, all of them would be really important for your major. Also on of the biggest differences is that college students are not able to pick their own classes, like American students can do. To get into a college they would have to do different test that their college would require. Students that would do well on the exams would not have to pay for their education at all, but the ones that did not have enough points would have to pay for it. Some student’s would not even get accepted because of their low score.

If people want to get good education they would have to come to Belgrade, capital of Serbia. Students would have to find a place to live by themselves because there is not such a thing as living on campus. None of the colleges back home have campus where students from other tows could live in. The only thing that you would have to pay, if you do not have enough points would be your education. Because of that, education in Serbia is much cheaper that the one in the United