"Мій молодший брат - учень."
Translation:My younger brother is a student.
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"Pupil" is British English. In American English, "student" is used both for K-12 schools and for colleges and universities.
Should be, but depends on the variation of English you speak. Do I understand it correctly that AmE prefers "students"?
Yes. Pupil is not an unfamiliar word, but I can't remember the last time I used it. And I'm a teacher.
People often say "little brother" to mean "younger brother." It's not even necessarily a term of endearment, but is often just used matter-of-factly in lieu of "younger brother." Similarly, "big brother" is often used to mean "older brother."
Not sure if they're worth adding, but "little brother" comes to me more naturally than "younger brother."
I specifically put "pupil" because I was marked wrong earlier when I translated "student" as "учень". I hate this.
This section of the course is perhaps the worst for the divergence between British and American English (and between normal people and academics who assume that everyone is familiar with their terminology).