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 Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 4:06 pm
Could somebody tell me what those things are? I'm Canadian and I may be able to list the fifty American states and tell you what time zones they're in, I don't know much about the school system. What are these tests?
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Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:02 pm
Oh, they're really exciting. We take them in highschool, taking several days from actually learning anything and wisely spend the time filling in the bubbles for multiple-choice questions. When we're done, we ship them off to Illyria [a.k.a. "no one knows"] and a few weeks later we get papers telling us what we're good at and what we're bad at compared to the rest of the country. These tests also determine how smart each state is, and ultimately how much government funding the public school system gets. Sometimes, these tests even tell us what to major in.
rolleyes
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:03 pm
*revives self* damn..school was sucking me in. Sorry I have been gone for so long guys sweatdrop
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:15 pm
School is drowning me in a pool of work. HELP ME!!!!!! I think I do need some help, since I broke my shoe in someone's profile.
~hears her ego talking and tells her to shut up~
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:22 pm
School's pretty good for me. Got my Progress Report [we get those, they're like in-between Report Cards] and thus far I'm all A's. Plus, this week has some teacher meeting junk, so it's a 5-day weekend! So I'm done with school for the week and I'm off on holiday tomorrow, returning this weekend.
My school is TOUGH, but it has its excellent moments.
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 3:51 pm
We have aptitude tests here... but that's infrequent and it's at the end of elementary school and you answer things like "If you were a bug what kind would you be?" I don't know why.
In highschool we have provincial exams in every subject we take. So like Advanced Math (Advanced is like AP in the States I think...) and Advanced English and what not. Those are calculated in province and then StatsCan tells us how stupid the Atlantic provinces are and why Central Canada is the smartest place ever. They're worth 30% of our grade (like, out of 100%, where I am we don't use letter grades until University) and we never find out the mark and neither do universities. From what I understand, SATs are really important for getting into university in the States.
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:53 pm
SAT's and ACT's are pretty much what the U.S. universities base applications on. And highschool accredation, and maybe even the grades we make. Highschool grades are rather relative to each teacher, so the standardized testing makes it easy for colleges to find the kind of students they want, and vice versa. Technically, my school bases the grades on percentages, but our letter grades are based off that.
My school's is rather strict, and roughly, it's as follows:
A = 93-105
B = 85-92
C = 77-84
D = 70-76
F = 0-69
I'm not sure what the public school system is based on, though. I hear some do just letters without an actual percentage.
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 6:31 am
You go up to 105? I've been busy with extra curricular activites, journal will tell you. My school goes 90-100 = A range, 80-89 = B range, 70-79 C range, 60-69 = D range, anything below is a fail.
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:10 pm
We only need to make 50% to pass. Anything under 60% as a fail scares me, not because I'm not good at school but because none of my friends are. Well, relatively speaking I mean. I'm fairly bright is all.
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:39 pm
Mines like Jaggeds, the average stuff xD. But yeah, I just finished a art project that was due today, I spent the day at my friends house doing it cause she has art with me and we were working on them. Now things may get easier.
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Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:54 am
I've got to cram an application to National Honors Society in two weeks, so I may disappear even more. ;_;
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Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 4:27 pm
aww *hug* its alright, do what you have to do.
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Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:30 pm
You go and rock on jagged! I don't even know what that is, but it sounds important. Rock away.
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Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 4:08 pm
To be honest, I'm not even sure what exactly NHS does. XD My mom just wants me to join so it'll look good on my college application.
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Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 4:17 pm
jagged1 You go up to 105? I've been busy with extra curricular activites, journal will tell you. My school goes 90-100 = A range, 80-89 = B range, 70-79 C range, 60-69 = D range, anything below is a fail. 105 is as high as the charts go, but anything above a 100 has had extra credit or bonus points added to it. I'm always getting stuff from different honours societies, but my parents are too lazy to take advantage of it. stare
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