‫Student life and education is a very common topic in all sections of the AIDS test, so I'm going to
‫show you eight essential pieces of vocabulary and language that you really should understand in preparation
‫for your child's test.
‫Here is your vocabulary list, higher education.
‫Graduate.
‫Schedule.
‫Diggory.
‫Curriculum.
‫Qualification.
‫Assessment.
‫And finally, challenge.
‫Let's move on to our first piece of language, which is higher education, higher education is a phrase
‫that is applied to any kind of education, usually from college up.
‫So that could be college, university or anything.
‫After that, higher education is considered educational institutions that you must enroll to.
‫You do not have to do that.
‫For example, at the age of 16 in England, you finish your normal school life.
‫After that, we have higher education, which you can choose to do.
‫Sally studied in higher education for three years, gaining a degree in human psychology.
‫Enrollment into higher education doubled over a four year period so that we have higher education.
‫Next up, we have graduate.
‫So graduate in this sense means when you finish and complete some studies, for example, you can graduate
‫from university once you have finished.
‫Once I graduate from university, I will return home to start work and live with my family.
‫Nowadays, students are finding it difficult to work after they graduate from university.
‫And here we have a schedule, schedule is very similar to timetable, a list of things that someone
‫must either go to or complete.
‫I must admit, my schedule at university is really jam packed.
‫Here's a lovely expression, jam packed.
‫When something is really busy, you can say that it is jam packed.
‫For example, the bus was jam packed.
‫OK, next example, the university lecturer had warned students that they needed to manage their own
‫schedules.
‫And here we have degree, a degree is a qualification that you get after you have studied in school
‫or college, you need to get a degree from a university.
‫The biggest reason students enrolled to university was to study for degree.
‫Right now, I am an undergraduate student, but next year I will study for my degree.
‫And here we have this phrase undergraduate student, an undergraduate student is someone who is not
‫yet going to university.
‫So it may be that they are applying and waiting to hear from the university.
‫Now we'll move on to curriculum.
‫A curriculum is a list of activities and learning that a student will work through to achieve a qualification.
‫I feel it's very important for students to look over the curriculum and understand their course.
‫Many students felt the curriculum wasn't busy enough to deliver on their expectations.
‫And here we have qualification, a qualification is a chunk of learning or a certificate that you have
‫to study to Ord's, a qualification has an end goal that you can work towards, such as a degree or
‫a Ph.D. or a master's.
‫I attended college and earned my qualification in history and art.
‫Now I've highlighted the verb attended because that's how we talk about college and university in the
‫past tense.
‫I attended college.
‫I attended university.
‫Employers these days want employees to have up to date qualifications.
‫And now we have assessment and assessment is very, very similar to a test or an exam, and you are
‫given or you are assessed or given an assessment to work out at what stage in your learning you are
‫at.
‫Self-assessment is very important in understanding how you can improve further.
‫Here we have the phrase self assessment, self-assessment is something that I recommend you should do
‫for your Eilts as well.
‫It's where you consider what your weak points are and think about what you need to study to improve
‫self-assessment.
‫When I was younger, I was always worried about tests and assessments.
‫So there we have assessment and finally we'll move on to challenge.
‫Challenge is something that is not very easy.
‫Much like student life or education.
‫I can't wait to challenge myself and begin my studies.
‫During high school, I found studies a challenge, but managed to pass all my exams.
‫Challenge something that is not easily achieved, and here is your complete list of eight essential
‫pieces of language for student life.