I received my school progress report for my first term and earned all A's!
What was/is your academic level of acheivement?
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I received my school progress report for my first term and earned all A's!
What was/is your academic level of acheivement?
First Class Honours in International Relations and Politics. B.A.BaracusHonours.
It is a well known fact that every nation in this world has a different education system and that level of education differs everywhere. Sorry to say, but because of the no-child-left-behind stuff, the amount of people in the US getting straight A's is so disconcerningly high that universities can't even admit people on grades alone. A sad fact, and, I'm afraid, makes this thread totally pointless.
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Anywho, I usually get 80% or up. I'm actually going to graduate Cum Laude. S'pretty cool, I guess. I don't want to give a speech though.
I agree with essentially anything that lets me be even more elitist about my academic aptitude than I already am. In short, everyone who doesn't have my grades is an inferior wretch and I don't understand how they can live with themselves.Originally Posted by Aerith's Knight
It is a well known fact that every nation in this world has a different education system and that level of education differs everywhere. Sorry to say, but because of the no-child-left-behind stuff, the amount of people in the US getting straight A's is so disconcerningly high that universities can't even admit people on grades alone. A sad fact, and, I'm afraid, makes this thread totally pointless.
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Anywho, I usually get 80% or up. I'm actually going to graduate Cum Laude. S'pretty cool, I guess. I don't want to give a speech though.
Still carrying a 4.0 half way through my Master's degree.
Well, we can't all be smarter than everyone else.
I'm afraid that I'm at the top of the tiers, gentlemen. All of your continued existences simply confuse me.
My senior year (in high school) has only just begun, but I received a 4.0 at the end of my last school year.
For real? You have to work like hell to get a 4.0 at my school... unless you take all phys ed and art classes, but most universities I've checked prefer those with rigorous courses anyway.
Rye made this!
I'm not even American and I disagree.
In the netherlands it isn't even possible to have a perfect score on every test. Because that is what a 4.0 average says. That you literally got a perfect score on every test you've ever gotten. That means either you are a genius or the test is too easy. I think that if someone actually got 100% on every test of the mandatory 16 courses in high school only on the highest level of education.. probably be national news.
But how do I know for sure? Well, the biggest example I can think of is this: In my country, people are split up from middle school into certain classes. I don't mean classes where there are chairs and such, but classes of people. These classes are divided up by intelligence. After high school you can go three different ways: medium professional education, higher professional education and University level.
Here comes the difference. A Higher professional education graduate, which is a level below University level, can join a masters program in a university in the US, I know this for a fact. However, if the same person wanted to do a University level masters program here, he has to do a 1 or 2 year transition where he receives a large number of courses you need to be able to do and if you fail one you get kicked out.
Those 1 or 2 years show the difference between actual level of education(70% that start it fails) and also shows you guys, if you actually have been getting 4.0 averages, are working way way waaaay below your level.
I'm not outwardly geeky. Most people don't even understand why they call myself a geek, until they see that I'm a huge closet geek when it comes to academic achievement. I hide my neat binder and my highlighters. Last semester, I worked for hours most days on my school work. I kind of enjoyed it too. When I work in groups, I enjoy doing the majority of the work... :aimblush:
3.9 GPA for my first two years of college, being that my upcoming study abroad year won't count into my GPA whatsoever (this is my party year before I have to work hard again and do student teacher, w00t w00t). I'm loving it.
Now when I get back from England, I get to transfer to a school in New York, and I pretty much get the pick of the lot, except for probably the SUPER ELITE colleges, like Columbia and Vassar, which are just too expensive anyway. I'm really proud of my hard work!
EDIT: Also, I have to disagree with that, AK, when it comes to university. Now, if you were talking about High Schools, I'd agree. In the US, the level of difficulty between schools of different regions vary greatly being that states themselves are able to set the bar (lol no child left behind), which is why you'll get really some really dumb kids from some states that have these insane 4.0 grades somehow, when in another state that holds the bar really high and do much more testing and have higher standards for passing, like Connecticut, Vermont or NY, that person would have a lower grade. That, unfortunately, is why the horrible SATs were put into fruitation.
But colleges are much more structured. In actuality, a lot of the schools in the US scale down grades, such as Boston University, so that if most students get a low A, the grade is really a B, and only perfect grades get A's, etc, etc.
Sources: All the professors from the teacher education classes I've taken, textbooks from said classes, and reading the news.
Last edited by Rye; 09-11-2009 at 11:35 PM.
Grade inflation is mostly due to an increase in incredibly simple non-subjects like Critical Thinking, imo. That, and the ability to resit exams as much as you want, and redrafting coursework.
I heard they split up Science GCSEs into two exams over the two years (similar to AS/A Levels) or something recently. I had a look at a 'first year' GCSE Biology past paper and it was just...pathetically easy. It wasn't so much science as using common logic to read charts and tables.
there was a picture here
The problem isn't making things easier, it's testing itself. When such a rigid system is applied it's not a struggle for teachers to get pretty darned good at teaching their students how to take tests. It's not about thinking for yourself or anything like that, just about learning the right material.
But then that's the case with all schooling until you hit university. It's not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of bothering to learn the material and, whilst some of us may have an easier time with that than others, ultimately an average intelligence person who works hard is going to outstrip any lazy smart person but a bona fide, no hyperbole, Ph.D-at-age-20 genius.
I failed my GCSEs in secondary school and took course afterwards in retail, then I went on to college to do a multimedia course, dropped out of that course and transferred over to an Art & Design course. after two years of that I'm now at Uni doing a Sequential lllustration course in my second year, while in my first year at the same time I retook my GCSEs I failed to get my grades back up.
So in short, in a College doing a University course called Sequential Illustration.
(basically like comic books, graphic novels and story telling).
I’m so smurfing stupid I can’t even begin to explain.
I found it much more rewarding to get A's in AP and college courses than any other course.
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