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mintmosaic on IELTS education vocabulary: are curriculum and syllabus the same?

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If an essay is about what schools should teach, can 'curriculum' and 'syllabus' replace each other? An example where one fits better would help.

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mintmosaic

Yes, that wording fits. Adding a new chemistry topic could be a syllabus change. I wouldn't treat them as opposites, though; people do use them in overlapping ways.
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