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[Baloki]

Well its that time again where I make another titanic style epic of a thread so here goes, I can take on your ice bergs!

What courses did you take for GCSE/A-levels/US equivilent. Did you enjoy them, and did you find them hard?

Cos you see, well there is no real reason behind this, but meh. I do Business Studies, Computing and Physics for A-level, dropped Maths at AS. I think they are hard at times and I enjoy them, why else choose them? Hey thats another question, OMG!

lol :love:

[Lindy]

Economics, Biology, Chemistry, dropped Maths at AS.

I chose them because I want a degree.

A degree of INSANITY.

[fire_of_avalon]

What on earth are you talking about? What are A levels? Explain. Now. Please.

[Baloki]

Their the highest form of qualification avalible in the UK below a degree.

[Xander]

Actually, there's HND - Higher National Diploma which is above A-Level but below Degree, that's what I'm doing at the moment (Multimedia). :p

And for A-Levels I did English Literature and ICT which was an AVCE, equivalent to 2 A-Levels. No idea why I did Eng. Lit actually since I want to be a web designer but there you go...

[Yamaneko]

Is it like General Education? Or more like an Associate in Arts?

[Del Murder]

Maybe it's like Devry Technical Institute, where you can major in TV/VCR repair.

[Xander]

GCSE = General Certificate of Secondary Education or something. Things you *have* to do at school.

A-Levels are optional, after that, after you leave school, like your specialist area, people usually do 2-4 of them. That's generally at school or college. And then HND/degrees are usually at University which is *after* that.

I wanna stay in education forever =D

[Yamaneko]

Originally posted by Del Murder
Maybe it's like Devry Technical Institute, where you can major in TV/VCR repair.
Most Americans can't make their VCR clock stop blinking. :D

Xander: I'm guessing GCSE is like General Education here. And degrees are degrees, thank goodness.

[Kami]

Originally posted by Del Murder
Devry Technical Institute
XD

[Thunday Man]

I don't understand your crazy talk. Is England even a real country?

[escobert]

No it's not.

[Skogs]

I did the International Baccalaureate. Biology, Chemistry and Maths at higher level. Economics, English A1 and French B at standard level.

[Tokki Wartooth]

What the god is all this?

[Casey]

Most Americans can't make their VCR clock stop blinking. :D



Well Im American and can... Just put duck-tape on the blinking.:D

[fire_of_avalon]

I think maybe if I just never ever get into a conversation with anyone about the educational system of Great Britain, I'll be ok. Thanks for trying to make me knowledgable though :)

[Baloki]

lol, well what happens is you start off in somewhere called primary school for 2-3 years. Then you goto a middle school for something like 7 years where the last two years you do GCSE's. When you've finished that you've finished compulsaray education and can leave, or stay on and do A-levels which allow you to specialise in 3 to 4 of the 10-15 subjects you did at GCSE.

After that you get to choose to specialise in 1 or 2 of those subjects at degree (university, though their not all degrees but can lead to one) level. Thats as high as you can go really, but you can keep repeating Uni until your 70 or something like that.

:choc: Thats just a quick idea, dunno how that compares to the US but I think it goes there, normal school, high school, collage....

[Lindy]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, never try and explain your country's education system to someone from a different country.

It took me three hours to explain it to one American girl, and she didn't even really understand it at the end.

[fire_of_avalon]

I get it now. We go elementary education which is elementary school and middle school/junior high. Then we have secondary education which is high school. But we don't do the GSCE or A level things. We either go on to a two year trade school where we get an associate's degree or we go to a four year college/university where we get a bachelor's degree. After that, we can go onto graduate school and get a master's degree, and if we stick with it, a doctoral degree. We can stop any time after we're 16 (in North Carolina, anyway)

My major right now (for my bachelor's degree) is Journalism and Mass Communications with a concentration in News/Editorial writing.

[Baloki]

Originally posted by fire_of_avalon
My major right now (for my bachelor's degree) is Journalism and Mass Communications with a concentration in News/Editorial writing.

A budding writer, very cool :)