3. After studying at a colegio, students receive their bachillerato.Cierto
In Latin america, bachillerato is what we called secondary education, where. First of all, students attend to a preschool, when they are under five years old. Then they attend to primary school when they are six years old. Here they learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division as well as reading and writing. When they are eleven, they start the bachillerato until they are 15 or 16 years old.
4. Undergraduates study at a colegio or an universidad. Falso
This is false because undergraduates only study at an university. So this mean that students is an university student or a college, so it isn't a graduate student. This education comes after secondary education and before a post-graduate education. Undergraduates programs usually conduct up to a bachelor's degree. So after you complete an undergraduate program, you can start a master or a PhD.
5. In Latin America and Spain, students usually choose their majors in their second year at the university. Falso
In Latin America and Spain, students usually choose their majors when they are sixteen or eighteen, depending on the country. Then they enroll at a university. It's common they take a vocational tests to know whether they are good for science or humanities. Taking this test doesn't imply a student has a place at a university, but this test leads the student to take the correct major.
6. In Argentina, students focus their studies in their high school years. Cierto
In Argentina, Secondary education is divided in two levels. First, the ciclo básico that goes from years 1st to 3rd. Second, the ciclo orientado that goes from 4th to 6th in some provinces, and from 4th to 5th in other provinces. However, in other provinces there's an adult system of high school that is called acelerados where students take 2 or 3 years of an intensive and focus their studies.
7. In Mexico, the bachillerato involves specialized study. Cierto
In Mexico, the bachillerato is related to institutions that offers an education that lasts three years (six semesters) and is focused either in physical sciences or social sciences. The goal of those programs is to prepare the students in general knowledge in order for the student to be ready for studying at a university. Physics, chemistry, biology and other sciences are part of the physical science while commerce, philosophy, law and other subjects are part of social science.
8. In Spain, majors depend on entrance exam scores. Cierto
Spain has 76 universities and most are supported by state funding while 24 are private and 7 of them are supported by the Catholic Church. To enter a university in Spain, the university system require you take the nota de corte, taken at the end of the bachillerato. How does this work? The nota de corte is a number between 1 and 10 and combines the grade you get from the Bachillerato exams and the average grade you get from the university selection exam, also known as la Selectividad or Prueba de Acceso a la Universidad (PAU), taken at a local university.
9. Venezuelans complete a licenciatura in five years. Cierto
Higher education in Venezuela is free, although there are also private institutions. In this country, higher education is divided into Technical Schools and Universities. Técnico Superior Universitario is the name of the title of a student that graduates from a Technical School. A program here is completed in three years. On the other hand, Licenciado (Bachelor) or Ingeneniero (Engineer) are titles a student can be awarded at a university depending on the program he or she is enrolled.
10. According to statistics, Colombians constitute the third-largest Latin American group studying at U.S. universities. Falso
Venezuelans constitute the third-largest Latin American group studying at U.S. universities having around 8.000 students. On the other hand, Brazilian students constitute the first-largest Latin American group having around 23.000 students and the second-largest Latin American group corresponds to Mexican Students, but what about Colombian Students? They constitute the fourth-largest Latin American group having 7200 students. Finally, Peru and Ecuador have 2,800 students each in U.S universities while Argentina has 2,000.
