Primary education system in USA

Rwanda System of Education

Rwanda operates on a 6-3-3-4 system:

Primary School - 6 years
Junior Secondary School (Ordinary level) - 3 years
Senior Secondary School (Advanced level) - 3 years
University Bachelor’s degree - 4 years

Language: There are three official languages of instruction throughout the Rwandan educational system: Kinyarwanda in primary school P1-P3 and English from P4 through University. French is taught as an elective or a supplemental subject in public primary and secondary schools.
Some private primary and high schools have both Francophone and Anglophone systems which use French or English respectively as languages of instruction. Students in these schools take either language as an elective or a supplementary subject

Junior Secondary School: Each year 28, 000 Rwandan students take the national secondary Education Ordinary Level test at the end of Junior Secondary School Form 3 (ninth grade) in nine subjects. If failed, a student can retake the third year or decide to join a private school.

Senior Secondary School: Admission to Senior Secondary School is competitive: fewer than 13, 000 students can be admitted into the 734 secondary schools. The vast majority of Rwandan students attend public boarding schools, many of which are highly competitive; there are also private secondary schools in the country. Students must take a national Secondary Education Advance Level exam to graduate. Fewer than 1000 independent students take a different national exam to receive a high school diploma each year.

In Secondary schools advanced level, students will focus on subject combinations as follows:

Physics-Chemistry-Mathematics (PCM), Physics-Chemistry-Biology (PCB), Math-Chemistry-Biology (MCB), Math-Physics-Geography (MPG), Math-Economics-Geography (MEG), History-Economics-Geography (HEG), English-French-Kinyarwanda (EFK), English-Kiswahili-Kinyarwanda (EKK), Maths-Physics-Computer Science (MPC), History-Economics-Literature (HEL), Maths-Computer Science-Economics (MCE), Biology-Chemistry-Geography(MCG), Physics-Economics-Math (PEM), History-Geography-Literature(HGL) and Literature-Economics-Geography (LEG)

In A-Level, students still take more courses (English for example) in addition to the main courses of their combination but these courses will not be examined in the national secondary school leaving exam.

The secondary school transcript contains a letter or percentage grade for each subject for each of three terms, for the three years of senior secondary school (equivalent to the tenth through twelfth grades). Students’ Term Reports (Bulletins) contain rank in class for each subject as well as grades for class work and end of term exams. The grading system is difficult: 80-100% is usually an A, a grade rarely awarded. Transcripts with all A’s are unlikely to be genuine.