School

hi, i don't actually go to school anymore but i say the aussie system while terrible at eductaion for various reasons is rather more logical than the brit "system"
I am also curiousabout the american SAT and why you take A 1HR MCQ TEST!? each one of my exams was 3hrs which is standard bar english which is 2, 2hr exams. that's 22hrs of exams...with minimal multiple choice

umm, ok. I think I'll just tell ya about the German system, which is very illogical:
You start school with 6 or 7 years. After year four you go to either (depending on your grades) the 'Hauptschule', 'Realschule' or 'Gymnasium'. The Hauptschule ends after year 9, after that you can either continue on another school or become an apprentice. The Realschule lasts one year longer, then same procedure like after the Hauptschule. The Gymnasium lasts 'till year 13 (you can quit earlier though). in year 10 you write zks, which means zentrale klassenarbeit (umm central exams or something like that). you write them in german, maths and your first foreign language and they count as 2 exams (each). in year 13 you write the 'Abitur' which is like the a-level.
exams are spread over the year. you write 4 in the main subjects (german, maths, languages) and 2 in the other subjects.
lessons last 45 minutes each, but sometimes you have double lessons. the exams are written in normal lessons (or sometimes double lessons), only zks and the abitur exams take longer.
a school day starts at 7.40 in the morning and ends at 12.50 (6 lessons). you usually got up to three days with afternoon lessons a week, which means you've got two more lessons from 1.45 till 3.20. in year 12 and 13 it can also happen that you've got 2 more after that.
in some bundesländer you've got to hold one GFS a year (in year 12 and 13 it's 3 together). that's a presentation. it counts like one exam. you can choose the subject and the topic.
umm, i think that's it. stupid, isn't it?

thanks for doing that! saved me a job...

the english system:

optional nursery school 2-4

lower "primary" school - 4-11

secondary school - 11-16
sixth form (sometimes part of secondary school) - 16-18
College 16 -

universtiy 18-

so quite simple

although you never mentioned our amazing exam system.

i appreciate that you've created this forum,no more school in other topics please.i hate to be the parent when it comes to this,but i hate school.

i used to. now i'm in sixth form in a different school, which is waaaaaay better

...is what I thought till I got to Uni. Then I thought, "Ah, now this is what education is supposed to be like!" I can only speak for American universities, though.

Hey, it's comment 7 and we're still on topic! Well done all!

i know what you mean,uni rocks for me.

no 8

lol yay us!
i don't like school. most of my teachers are really stupid. and then there's this one teacher who heads our english drama group (which i am member of). he's a real idiot and my worst nightmare. i actually really do have nightmares with him. : (

wow,i once had a dream about one of my lecturers,but anyway...
school never really helped me,i didn't use the marks i got to make it into college

yay! still on topic...

i never really enjoyed school. but on the other hand it didn't dislike it either. it was just something that if i ignored and got on it would go away.

but then i got to sixth form, which i really really enjoyed. and then UNI, which of course is amazin!

back home, when my parents were at school, primary was yrs 1-8 and high school was 4 yrs. you could go to a technixcal high specific to your subject wants of to a general high. Every lesson they would have feleles which is when the teacher selects random people to answer random questions like giving a speech about this or that or proving a formula on the board or forming geographically correct mountainranges in a sandbox. and every day the teacher would assess those that were called upon and at the end of the year your marks incorporated that.

i found school to be a place to hang out with friends,work was like a second part to it.

for me a rather unpleasant part of school is the fear of being asked something. Not in every lesson, but in Spanish for example. I've got problems with learning and using spanish and so i usually can't answer questions there. not very nice.

HA! i did latin. they won't ask you to speak there.

in sixth form spanish here we actually have an hour set aside in our free periods to speak spanish with a columbian. is fun, but very very hard.

I didn't know they taught spanish as a regular subject in england...i think I'll ptart a thread about second and first and taught languages

we have a forum about languages already somewhere in the drum

ah yes, "look out! it's an education!" on page 4

fine! I shall go and inspect this so called forum. wrest my two extra points form me why don't you.

yeah, why not

yeah,wrest his 2 extra points from him

just for that I shall start a forum MWUHAHAHAHA i don't know what on yet but that's never stopped me before!!!

i dare you

poetry

bah, many can play at that game

then play...vegifable! [bam bam bam!] (if you don't know then count yourself lucky. As wooldoor sockbat from drawn together said: "I love you. I enjoy your right wing religous propaganda clumsily disguised as children's entertainment")

Oh guys., you were doing so well at keeping on topic, now look what you've done...

On an education based note, I've just had a letter from Cambridge... AND I GOT IN :-D !!!!!

Sorry, I'll calm down in a day or two...
Mr Scrub

OH DAYAM! congrats brother you'll be a rhode schollar what do you want to do?

err, thanks??

I want to spend 3 years with mad-clever people doing weird studenty things... In terms of actually studying, I'm taking theology with a view to maybe doing a law conversion course afterwards...

MS

ah, law that odd little island in the sea of academia.

congrats,you're getting into some heavy stuff

no, only the books are heavy...eventually we may alas see our friend turn into [gasp] a ... laywer. [bum bum bum!] [shame]

oh dear...

quite. but fear not I'm sure we can save him yet

get him into some nice college parties that'll change his though patterns

or introduce him to Mr Slant

yeah,he'll how much of a dead job being a lawyer can be

pays good though

what would you spend money on if you were dead,coffins,skin grafts?skin?

well where do you think the expression "Gimme some skin man" cam from. the thriving post mortem skin trade.

nice,have you seen the forum on quotes?

yes i beleive a posted some. like some Ghandi for insatnce

funny,i also posted some gandhi

but yours was as a snide remard to the guy that told us off for bickering

true,can't help that

i'm beginning to think that we should have a program that whenever ook and the sarge write more that 4 posts without someone else automatically moves you to the off-topic topic, because you keep getting off topic.

exactly.
although i posted pratchett too. the site of pratchett quotes is so short

really,back to topic of school,what sort of stupid things did you do during break?

well there was alcohol involved and i got layed to. relatively pleasant trip. a lot of alcohol involved and beaches.