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Nyahaha! See, we Europeans do everything better. Seriously though, it varies over here. Most are 3 but some are 4 (and one is a horrific 6, but that includes a master 'phase', it's just one compound program). And well, quite a number of people end up taking longer, there are actually special words (even in the legal lexicon!) for taking longer than the set number of years to finish your program.
What, you can pick your professor? Doesn't a course just come with one? (that makes them sound like disposable products)
You sound like a girl a year above me who proudly proclaimed that she wrote two different essays for different courses with the same supervisor (which isn't technically allowed) after she wrote a long letter to the exam board about how she was so passionate about the subject. Then explained to fellow students that in reality, she had singled that professor out as the one giving the highest grades and she could have cared less what his specialty (and thus the subject of her essays) was. All she wanted were the sweet sweet grades.
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Okay I think I have totally lost track of how this works. So you have to take a subject, but there are multiple courses you can choose from (with different professors)? You probably have a set of compulsory courses right? Is that like a set of electives, or something different?
xD It is so confusing when you have a completely different system. MaximumRide14 AP classes are like 'special' higher-level classes you can take in high school that count as college credit right?
Most of the classes that you take are not electives. There's a lot of professors in school that basically teach the same subject one way or the other. You don't take all of the professors that teach the same subject in one semester, but you can choose them whether it's time or if you're like me, easy. So you're not limited on choosing a class with a particular teacher.
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There's a set of class for every unI student to graduate, then there are your major classes, then electives to fill the hours in. For AP classes, not every college accept them nor do they accept them in the same way. My college needs a complement History test in addition to the AP government test for us to claim the credit.
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It sucks because I can't get out of it. Even though I took Calc AB last year and barely got through it, the school has to make me take four years in high school, meaning that they're forcing me to take Calc BC this year. Rip my math grade
I've seen that most Ivy League universities don't like to accept the credits, so I'm hoping I can find a university that works out best for it. As long as the AP test goes well, they give you a huge curve that's really beneficial.
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THIS. So much.
I had just about average or just below average grades in HS. Then I got to unI and aced everything. graduated **** laude.
... I'm not actually sure why. I'm just glad I had a great unI that looked past a person's grade when considering applications as it had and still has quite a low acceptance rate.
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Yes. A lot of my friend group consists of really really smart people that get 5s on all their APs without even trying. One of them got about a 1450 on her PSAT last year (we were freshmen). Even though they're my friends, it still sucks to be around people who seem to just get it without any effort.
Here's why I think HS makes me feel dumb. One of the classes that anyone can take in their junior year was psychology. However, there's a catch. You have to take a specific exam in order to be qualified to take the class. I took the exam multiple times during the summer, but to no avail. I always failed the exam. So when school comes by, a majority of my peers are taking psychology while I'm taking yearbook. Another reason why HS makes me feel stupid is my low score on the SAT. I got a 900 on it while around 98% of the class got like an 1100 or above.
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I got a SAT score so low, I prefer not to talk about it. However, I considered ACT and got a good grade on it. Even when I am taking practice exams, I always consistently have higher ACT grade than SAT. SAT and ACT don't test for your ability to succeed, it tests your general knowledge and test-taking ability that's all.
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I was actually about to make a snarky remark about 'Yay, capitalism" but then removed it lol. Didn't want to trigger anyone with my socialist ways.
If it is any consolation, there are problems in any system. We have a rather jarring grading system where it has become ingrained somehow that it is objectionable to give people the maximum grade. The grade scale runs from 1 to 10 (10 being highest) and it is virtually impossible starting in HS and continuing in college to get a 10/10. And often a 9/10 too. Anything above an 8/10 is meant to be very exceptional, and is kept that way - as in, it often isn't tied to objective standards but rather the perception that a 10/10 is only supposed to be handed out once in a blue moon to signify particularly, above and beyond exceptional work - and is out of reach the rest of the time.
It is a recurring theme in politics (and among some old people) to bash modern students as lazy and having poor work ethic as they often settle for scoring a 6/10, which is just over the minimum passing grade (5.5). This is referred to as the six-culture.
Which is unfortunately in truth a result of the fact that teachers are geared to giving students the passing 6 grade. My brother quoted one of his college professor as having mentioned once that in his 17 years of teaching, he had never given a student a 10 because that was reserved for that once-in-a-lifetime student.
My of Dutch HS teacher had such a strict policy of aiming for the 'perfect average' which was according to her a 6.7, that if students did too well and the grades came out above a 7 on average, she would adjust the grading scale. AFTER the test had already been graded. It's basically a bell curve but even worse. Pointing out to her that this made it impossible for even the most brilliant students to get high grades unless there were some students in the same class that did very poorly, prompted the response of "so what's wrong with that, you don't need an 8. A 7 does perfectly fine."
Needless to say she was hugely unpopular, and she was excessive, but the sentiment wasn't unusual. I later read that the british 'ivy' universities like oxford have an explicit policy for Dutch grades where the Dutch 1-10 scale is not converted 1:1 with the 1-4 or A-F grade scale, but instead an 8 is considered a high grade (A) and then it goes stepwise down from there. The 9/10 and 10/10 are basically ignored as if they don't exist Which I guess is good for that one student in my year who had a 9 on average. Also doens't make you a popular person, lol. Too much jealousy.
If it is any consolation, there are problems in any system. We have a rather jarring grading system where it has become ingrained somehow that it is objectionable to give people the maximum grade. The grade scale runs from 1 to 10 (10 being highest) and it is virtually impossible starting in HS and continuing in college to get a 10/10. And often a 9/10 too. Anything above an 8/10 is meant to be very exceptional, and is kept that way - as in, it often isn't tied to objective standards but rather the perception that a 10/10 is only supposed to be handed out once in a blue moon to signify particularly, above and beyond exceptional work - and is out of reach the rest of the time.
It is a recurring theme in politics (and among some old people) to bash modern students as lazy and having poor work ethic as they often settle for scoring a 6/10, which is just over the minimum passing grade (5.5). This is referred to as the six-culture.
Which is unfortunately in truth a result of the fact that teachers are geared to giving students the passing 6 grade. My brother quoted one of his college professor as having mentioned once that in his 17 years of teaching, he had never given a student a 10 because that was reserved for that once-in-a-lifetime student.
My of Dutch HS teacher had such a strict policy of aiming for the 'perfect average' which was according to her a 6.7, that if students did too well and the grades came out above a 7 on average, she would adjust the grading scale. AFTER the test had already been graded. It's basically a bell curve but even worse. Pointing out to her that this made it impossible for even the most brilliant students to get high grades unless there were some students in the same class that did very poorly, prompted the response of "so what's wrong with that, you don't need an 8. A 7 does perfectly fine."
Needless to say she was hugely unpopular, and she was excessive, but the sentiment wasn't unusual. I later read that the british 'ivy' universities like oxford have an explicit policy for Dutch grades where the Dutch 1-10 scale is not converted 1:1 with the 1-4 or A-F grade scale, but instead an 8 is considered a high grade (A) and then it goes stepwise down from there. The 9/10 and 10/10 are basically ignored as if they don't exist Which I guess is good for that one student in my year who had a 9 on average. Also doens't make you a popular person, lol. Too much jealousy.
Wow, that sounds like a terrible grading policy, no wonder it discourages students. I'm glad none of my classes have been like that, it would make me miserable to not even be able to hope to get a perfect score (I am an obsessive perfectionist when it comes to grades sometimes). And I don't know about everyone else here, but as someone trapped in a capitalist system that I wish I could get out of, I have no objections to you insulting it.
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I can imagine why, haha. I think A-F itself is a pretty great idea, getting something like a 7.6 instead of a 7.8 etc. can sometimes make for weird dissatisfaction when it makes virtually no difference. On the other hand I got graded on that scale during my bachelor and the great joy at getting an A wears off quickly if you get them constantly and everyone gets them So both have its disadvantages.
How are you today? For that matter, how is everyone today?
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I can imagine why, haha. I think A-F itself is a pretty great idea, getting something like a 7.6 instead of a 7.8 etc. can sometimes make for weird dissatisfaction when it makes virtually no difference. On the other hand I got graded on that scale during my bachelor and the great joy at getting an A wears off quickly if you get them constantly and everyone gets them So both have its disadvantages.
How are you today? For that matter, how is everyone today?
I'm doing pretty good today. Spending some time getting caught up on school work and working on getting back on a decent schedule, all of which is going rather well. My Developmental Psychology class is proving to be quite the hassle, though.
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