In Russia children go to school at the age of six or seven. They spend eleven years at school. School starts at 8:30 am and finishes at 3 pm. Young students have 3-4 lessons a day and older students have up to 7 lessons a day. In large cities there are sometimes separate morning and afternoon sessions. There are usually around 20-30 students in a class. The subjects are Russian,Literature, Maths, history, Social Science, Biology, Geography, Physics, ICT, Chemistry, English and others. There are also vocations schools that train students in a specialised profession.
School starts on 1st September and finishes on 31st May . The summer holiday starts on 1st June and lasts for three months but Year 9 and Year 11 students take their exams in June. The Russian National Exam is a national test combining school-leaving exams and entrance exams to universities.