How do high schools work where you live?

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Here in Sweden we have courses all three years, and they carry points that are multiplied by your grade, and then divided by a number.

F=0p
E=10p
D=12.5p
C=15p
B=17.5p
A=20p


Getting an A in absolutely every course will get you to a 20 p in the final grade, and in second grade you can choose two courses that will give you 2.5 p together. 22.5 is the absolute maximum one can get.

On another note, 3 months have passed where I've been dicking around, and after that I found the score needed to get into the school that I want is "21.20" or something, and the fact that 5 people got in this year, I'd like to listen to some of your advice, or encouragements.

8 months is the approximate time for the first courses' grades to drop. I asked my math teacher if I could make it to an A if I get everything right, and he said yes.

So I basically have 5 months to make up for most of the things, and I am mentally prepared, but I'm not used to trying, so could you share some tips or whatever?

I'm not a complete retard, so I can get A's in the future, but right now, I think that the first courses are super fucking important, and they are, but I will manage it. I just want your experiences and stuff in this thread.

Pls no "I got A's since kindergarten"


Last Edit: December 11, 2014, 01:05:55 PM by Royal Light


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We work with percentage in Murrica you commie scum

Oh you mean credits lol, it's 8 per year and at least one in math, science, and English each year. Over 60% is a pass for the course

Although it varies for every state
Last Edit: December 11, 2014, 01:08:21 PM by Statefarm


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From six to 10

6 is a fail or barely passable.


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If you're wondering what I've been doing up until now; it's that I've been reading a lot of books about topics such as: medicine (even though I don't deal with that stuff), psychology (the university class that I want to get into), and detective stuff.

I've also bought magnifying glass, and I've been learning English and stuff.


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How do highschools work? Poorly.
Any institute's priority should be the proliferation of education, yet educators don't seem to recognize that building a loving association with learning is the best way to keep individuals learning and sharing their knowledge with each other. Not with arbitrary curriculum and outdated teaching methods.


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Any institute's priority should be the proliferation of education, yet educators don't seem to recognize that building a loving association with learning is the best way to keep individuals learning and sharing their knowledge with each other. Not with arbitrary curriculum and outdated teaching methods.

Dude, fuck off.

I'm not going to be able to change to whole school system where I live in such a short time that I get into the class without getting good grades; and this isn't a thread for you to complain, but rather a thread for my consolation.


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How do highschools work? Poorly.
Any institute's priority should be the proliferation of education, yet educators don't seem to recognize that building a loving association with learning is the best way to keep individuals learning and sharing their knowledge with each other. Not with arbitrary curriculum and outdated teaching methods.

Dude, fuck off.

I'm not going to be able to change to whole school system where I live in such a short time that I get into the class without getting good grades; and this isn't a thread for you to complain, but rather a thread for my consolation.
I suppose I could answer your question.
Teachers grade on a four point system
0=F
1=D
2=C
3=B
4=A
5=A in an AP or Advanced class


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In secondary school, years 10 and 11 (ages 14-16) we do our GCSEs. These generally include the core subjects (Maths, English, Science), Religious Studies, ICT, and then 4 choice subjects, for example I chose French, Spanish, Geography and Graphic Design. These are graded from A*-G, with a U being an absolute monging out. Most people take around 11 GCSEs or equivalents, I did 13.

In years 12 and 13 (ages 16-18) most students do A-Levels. These are subjects of your choice, and most students do 4. The first year, you do your AS exams. After this year, most people drop 1 subject. I didn't drop anything. The next year, you do your A2 exams. AS and A2s go towards you final A-Level grade, which ranges from A*-G (although the maximum is an A at AS), also with a U being a fail. The difference between A-Levels and GCSEs is that A-Levels are actually challenging.

Each exam has a raw marking criteria. So an exam paper might be out of 60. The scores of all candidates for that exam are all collated, and a new set of grade boundaries (UMS) out of, say, 80 will be created. The top 90% of students will get A*s, the top 80 will get As, and so on. So the Raw-UMS conversion rate changes with each exam.

Applying to Uni, they mainly look at your A-Level results. You apply during your A2s, so they'll base an offer on your predicted results.
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In secondary school, years 10 and 11 (ages 14-16) we do our GCSEs. These generally include the core subjects (Maths, English, Science), Religious Studies, ICT, and then 4 choice subjects, for example I chose French, Spanish, Geography and Graphic Design. These are graded from A*-G, with a U being an absolute monging out. Most people take around 11 GCSEs or equivalents, I did 13.
4 choices? My school only had us pick 2.


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In secondary school, years 10 and 11 (ages 14-16) we do our GCSEs. These generally include the core subjects (Maths, English, Science), Religious Studies, ICT, and then 4 choice subjects, for example I chose French, Spanish, Geography and Graphic Design. These are graded from A*-G, with a U being an absolute monging out. Most people take around 11 GCSEs or equivalents, I did 13.
4 choices? My school only had us pick 2.
wow. Yeah we got to pick 4. If you were good at languages and/or maths, you got 2 extras, Latin and/or Additional Maths.


 
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In secondary school, years 10 and 11 (ages 14-16) we do our GCSEs. These generally include the core subjects (Maths, English, Science), Religious Studies, ICT, and then 4 choice subjects, for example I chose French, Spanish, Geography and Graphic Design. These are graded from A*-G, with a U being an absolute monging out. Most people take around 11 GCSEs or equivalents, I did 13.
4 choices? My school only had us pick 2.
wow. Yeah we got to pick 4. If you were good at languages and/or maths, you got 2 extras, Latin and/or Additional Maths.
Everyone in my school only had to pick 2 regardless of if they were top tier students.
Languages weren't options, because the only language that was taught at my school was Spanish, and nobody wanted to do that so they dropped it entirely.


 
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I was gonna make that joke...
I expected it to be here when I clicked on this thread. Too disappoint.


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I was gonna make that joke...
I expected it to be here when I clicked on this thread. Too disappoint.
Oi, I made a comment relating to it.


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In secondary school, years 10 and 11 (ages 14-16) we do our GCSEs. These generally include the core subjects (Maths, English, Science), Religious Studies, ICT, and then 4 choice subjects, for example I chose French, Spanish, Geography and Graphic Design. These are graded from A*-G, with a U being an absolute monging out. Most people take around 11 GCSEs or equivalents, I did 13.
4 choices? My school only had us pick 2.
wow. Yeah we got to pick 4. If you were good at languages and/or maths, you got 2 extras, Latin and/or Additional Maths.
Everyone in my school only had to pick 2 regardless of if they were top tier students.
Languages weren't options, because the only language that was taught at my school was Spanish, and nobody wanted to do that so they dropped it entirely.
how can you not want to do spanish

>is doing spanish a2


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In secondary school, years 10 and 11 (ages 14-16) we do our GCSEs. These generally include the core subjects (Maths, English, Science), Religious Studies, ICT, and then 4 choice subjects, for example I chose French, Spanish, Geography and Graphic Design. These are graded from A*-G, with a U being an absolute monging out. Most people take around 11 GCSEs or equivalents, I did 13.
4 choices? My school only had us pick 2.
wow. Yeah we got to pick 4. If you were good at languages and/or maths, you got 2 extras, Latin and/or Additional Maths.
Everyone in my school only had to pick 2 regardless of if they were top tier students.
Languages weren't options, because the only language that was taught at my school was Spanish, and nobody wanted to do that so they dropped it entirely.
how can you not want to do spanish

>is doing spanish a2
because beaner language is icky


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How do highschools work? Poorly.
Any institute's priority should be the proliferation of education, yet educators don't seem to recognize that building a loving association with learning is the best way to keep individuals learning and sharing their knowledge with each other. Not with arbitrary curriculum and outdated teaching methods.


So how the hell do you get kids to love maths?

You make a good point, its just, I'm struggling to think what makes me like surds, or -1.


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How do highschools work? Poorly.
Any institute's priority should be the proliferation of education, yet educators don't seem to recognize that building a loving association with learning is the best way to keep individuals learning and sharing their knowledge with each other. Not with arbitrary curriculum and outdated teaching methods.


So how the hell do you get kids to love maths?

You make a good point, its just, I'm struggling to think what makes me like surds, or -1.
By teaching them to embrace struggle if it frustrates them as opposed to suggesting alternatives or decreasing math exposure. Teaching them that math is not really a static concept to be written on boards and tested on, that the abstractions we use to express it can't fully give light to its universal beauty, that to understand those things we have to see it functioning in action.
People like getting over humps and understanding content after struggling with it, the "aha!" moment where everything clicks. If education could put that alone to use more often, I think we'd see an improvement in people enjoying education instead of seeing it as an obstacle to overcome
Why would this notion garner a -1?


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We work in percentages except for the IB students. They are on a 1-7 scale. Although you can pass with a 2 because their marks are scaled or some shit.


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How do highschools work? Poorly.
Any institute's priority should be the proliferation of education, yet educators don't seem to recognize that building a loving association with learning is the best way to keep individuals learning and sharing their knowledge with each other. Not with arbitrary curriculum and outdated teaching methods.


So how the hell do you get kids to love maths?

You make a good point, its just, I'm struggling to think what makes me like surds, or -1.
By teaching them to embrace struggle if it frustrates them as opposed to suggesting alternatives or decreasing math exposure. Teaching them that math is not really a static concept to be written on boards and tested on, that the abstractions we use to express it can't fully give light to its universal beauty, that to understand those things we have to see it functioning in action.
People like getting over humps and understanding content after struggling with it, the "aha!" moment where everything clicks. If education could put that alone to use more often, I think we'd see an improvement in people enjoying education instead of seeing it as an obstacle to overcome
Why would this notion garner a -1?


That sounds extremely difficult, and would require some kind of either a reward system, or a mental attitude built up from pre-school. No easy feat.

And its just my least favourite number. Can't square root the bugger.


 
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7 point grading scale. 93% and above is an A, 86% and above is a B, etc. You need 70% to pass a course. You can make up failed courses over summer school without being held back, unless you failed English. Then you automatically have to do the whole year over again.


 
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No clue, the system changes literally once or twice a year.