Quote Originally Posted by Meowneko View Post
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that if you started the game as a Arcanist and you want to be a Scholar you can level your Scholar as you're leveling other classes/jobs.
That question can be taken in SO many ways... so I'm going to make an assumption on what you meant.

No, your Arcanist (Because SCH's level is just Arcanist's level) does not get xp by leveling other classes just because you chose arcanist as your starting class. The only impact your starting class has is what city you start in (and thus what quests you get up until level 15 or so, basically the main story quests and the quests in the very starting zones outside of town) and, well, what class you start as.

Now, what you MAY have been thinking of is how you can gain xp on SMN, and it will gain you levels on SCH. But that's because both SCH and SMN are jobs of Arcanist, and it's only the base class that gains xp and has a level. As you gain xp as either a SMN, SCH, or ACN, they all just give xp to ACN, which determines the levels for all of them. This also works for other classes and their jobs, such as Paladin and Gladiator sharing the same xp pool and levels.