Oh boy, the Polish education system is really weird.
First, six years of Szkoła Podstawowa (Basic / Lower School), then 3 years of Gimnazjum (Middle School) then either 3 years of Liceum Ogólnokształcące (High School, then you get your Matura when you're 19, which is required to go to any college or univeristy) or four years of Technikum (Technic School, after which you usually don't have a Matura but can start woking immediatly. IT schools, electronic schools, car mechanic schools, whatever. Those are considered much less valuable than a Liceum Ogólnokształcące).
You can choose a Liceum depending on what you prefer (there are those more oriented in science, others in philology and whatever). In the Liceum itself you can choose your class profile, also depending on your interests (there are no separate "classes" for each subject like in most education systems, unfortunately. But each class states what subjects are there going to be, any can be at an either basic or extended version.). After that, you pass your Matura (this time you can select between different subjects, and a basic or advanced level).
I'm in my second year of Liceum, in a more humanities oriented one (it's actually a bilingual French-Polish Liceum), but in a class with extended/advanced Biology, Mathematics, French, Physics and Chemistry. After finishing school, I hope to pass my Matura with basic Literature, extended Mathematics, Physics and English, and bilingual (even higher than advanced) French. After that, I'll probably just study CS at the Warsaw Univeristy of Technology. They are cool guys:
The subjects that I have are: Literature, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Geography, Biology, Latin, English, French, IT (lol excel), WOS (knowledge about society, politics, blabla), History, Philosophy.
Phew.
(Also, I don't give a damn about my grades, especially in those subjects that I don't plan on having on my Matura. Not gonna brag about straight A's here. But I'm gonna brag about me learning Linear Algebra and Calculus on the side, while we are still doing Precalculus at my school.)
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