Hi.
Could you correct my English?
"A University Entrance Examination"
I think many of your schools start in September every year, while Japanese schools start in April.
The Japanese school system is six years of elementally school, three years of junior high school, three years of high school, two or four years of university.
Many foreign countries seem to have many options to finish schools, while we only have the 3-3-6 system in Japan.
Just after I graduated high school, I entered a pharmaceutical school. You would enter a university first, and after finishing it, you would enter a professional school in your country, right? You can take time to decide your profession and that seems to be very convenient.
However, you need to decide until 17 years old whether to become a doctor, a pharmacist or a layer, or not in Japan. I had an entrance examination for the pharmaceutical school when I was 17. The school was one department of a university, and they teach about both medicines and many other things your universities would teach you.
When I worked as a pharmacist, one of the office women said to me, “You decided to become a pharmacist when you were 15 or 16 years old, didn’t you?”
She was right. I decided it when I was 16 and started preparing for the exam. Japanese universities and professional schools are hard to enter, and many of them are easy to graduate.
She said, “I can’t believe that! I didn’t imagine anything about my future when I was 16! I wish I did. If I have done that, I can get a better job and salary!”
How old were you when you decided your occupation?
By the way, this is when I had the entrance exam. I didn’t know one English word in the English examination. The word was “pub”.
I have been to some pubs in Ireland now, but normal Japanese 17 year students don’t know what “pub” is! What do you think?
Thank you!
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