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Comparing school in India with Britain

Shefali Singh from Shaw is receiving an unusual education. The thirteen year old, who used to attend Westlea
Primary School and now goes to a private secondary school in Abingdon, has been spending this year as a
pupil at GD Goenka School in the Indian capital New Delhi. Here she describes the very different experience
of going to a school based on the British public school education system in another country.
Since Septem- different peri- no strangers to mark schemes and
ber I have been ods; instead, the timed tests.
lucky enough teacher comes to Studying in India has been a big
to live with my the classroom. eye-opener for me. It helped me
grandparents For any subject, see the different ways people study
and take year 8 the first 30 min- and has prepared me for tests in
in India. utes are taken the future.
S i n c e t h e up by chosen My conversational skills have
school is an students reading improved and I now feel more
‘international’ out paragraphs confident. Studying in a developing
school, it ac- of the chapter nation like India is different, but
cepted a lot of currently being it’s good for broadening horizons.
students from studied. The
abroad and I had next 10 minutes
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