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[Manta]

I have a three-hour Regents exam for science that I honestly wish I wasn't taking.

 

oh hey you're a New Yorker too!!! Which regents are you taking? :D I remember those :P I scored in the 90s for all but the Math B...got an 80something for that one xDD Good luck on your exam and remember to draw funny pictures to amuse the graders!! :) Oh wait, that's AP exams...haha oh well :laughingsmiley:

[IrishLiz]

Wow, that makes it tough Spritzie... it sounds pretty arbitrary. :laughingsmiley:

[Spritzie]

It's not going to fun. Our manager has refused to tell us any parameters of what it could include. It could be anything from procedures, to the X,Y coordinates of machines in the data centers, to tape storage capabilities.

[Manta]

That sounds really unfun xDD I guess it's just looking for general breadth of knowledge then.

How much do you need to pass?

[Spritzie]

80%. And the number of questions isn't set. I guess one he gave to another team a few years ago, had 300 questions. o_O

[Manta]

Wowwwwwww that's insane!! o_O Good luck!!!

 

*is so glad to be done with exams for the semester*

 

Bleh...I hate packing up my dorm room. The walls look so bare without all of my posters :sad02:

[rachiee]

oh hey you're a New Yorker too!!! Which regents are you taking? :D I remember those :P I scored in the 90s for all but the Math B...got an 80something for that one xDD Good luck on your exam and remember to draw funny pictures to amuse the graders!! :) Oh wait, that's AP exams...haha oh well :laughingsmiley:

 

Yup. -pokes location- I'm taking the Earth Science Regents. No math Regents this year because I'm in normal math...that's next year. :P

Thank you c:

[Iona]

Hi all :)

 

Not posted on HOP for a while.

 

*pokes post above me*

You have a nice siggy :3

 

Anyway, I've got my first exam tomorrow. Really dreading it. It's English, I hate the subject. All the tedious essay writing and boring passages... :grrr: I've done nothing but English for the past 2 days and it's driving me nuts. I'll be SO relieved tomorrow when I finish the papers...I'll be rid of the subject FOR GOOD. :woot: ...unless I fail miserably and have to do the subject for another year.

 

Hope everyone is well. :)

I shall pop back again another time.

[Spritzie]

Iona, are you in HS, or college?

 

At my HS, the required English credits to graduate made it so you had to take an English class every semester of all 4 years.

[:)Doc]

-pokes thread- is it dead? Nobody seems to be talking... :(

 

Really? I don't get high school credits and all that mess. :laughingsmiley:

[Wembly]

NO! Don't die thread! *takes out cardiac paddles* CLEAR! Oh wait, I don't have proper medical training for this, I guess I should just post to try to revive it :rolleyes_anim:

 

In other news summer is almost here but sadly the summer weather is not quite here <_<

[Tedhaun]

There's no way that this thread would die. (:

 

Such a sunny day this morning, and it's 63 degrees out in the sky, perfect walking weather if I say the least. :yes:

[Spritzie]

In other news summer is almost here but sadly the summer weather is not quite here <_<

 

I know the feeling. On Wednesday, early morning, it was raining like crazy. By noon, it was actually snowing. <_< Now it's back to being fairly warm.

[Iona]

Iona, are you in HS, or college?

 

At my HS, the required English credits to graduate made it so you had to take an English class every semester of all 4 years.

 

I'm in HS. And I'm doing "Highers" which are the Scottish qualifications needed to get into University. (England's equivalent are A levels, and I'm never sure about the USA's system - but I don't want to start an educational debate about the differences, had enough of them *lol*)

So after I get the results for these exams I can start applying for University. :) I could leave school this year but I'm choosing to stay for one more year and get more qualifications before I go to Uni.

 

I don't know what you mean when you talk about credits, sorry!

English was a subject that was compulsory until the end of this year. Next year I don't have to take it again but I could take it again if I wanted to resit it (to improve my existing grade)... or take the next level "Advanced Higher" if I wanted a better qualification in it.

 

And you guys graduate from HS... we don't do that here. We just have prom etc in our last (senior) year.

 

We only graduate from University.

 

Oh and, I did my English exams. They were awful. :/

[Spritzie]

I don't know what you mean when you talk about credits, sorry!

 

Each school year is divided into sections. There's semesters. (2 a year, first half of the year, and second half) and each semester is broken into 2 quarters. (The quarters aren't really important.)

 

But each semester/half a year of a class, is considered a credit. So there were 8 credits required for English. So you either had to take a English class every semester of every year, or take more than one some semesters.

 

They required like, 11 credits of electives, 4 credits of a foreign language, 4 credits of PE, 6 credits of math, etc. And you could only graduate once you fulfilled the credit requirements.

[IrishLiz]

Mine was about the same, but we only had to take one year of PE. Oh and there are a few extra credit requirements if you want to go to the university. I think for university, they want 4 years of math (8 credits), 3 years of science (6 credits), 2 years of history, more electives, 2 years of foreign language, etc.

 

We do credits at the university too but they're added up differently. I won't get into that right now - it can be confusing! Plus some universities break up terms differently, so they do different credits. So even just in the US, it can be confusing. :laughingsmiley:

[rachiee]

I think that I have to take either two or four years of PE in high school. I looked over my brother's course listing book (he's a grade ahead of me and we got it in the mail last year) and the only times PE was mentioned was under 9th and 12th grade. I believe that in 10th and 11th grade, you do team sports, health or something of that nature. Not sure how many credits that adds up to, I think I lost that book...

 

The high school I'm going to next year only requires three years of math, and one year of foreign language. (Honestly, I'm not entirely sure about the "one year of foreign language" thing- my brother is considering dropping Spanish before he starts 10th grade unless he fails his Regents. Whatever, I'm still going to take four years of foreign language because I'm pretty good at it :P)

[IrishLiz]

I ended up doing three years of foreign language (because I liked it :)). The third year was a dual enrollment class with a local community college, so I got one year of college credit for it, which was great.

 

Man, that much PE stinks. I'm glad we only had to do one year. It gets really hot here, so it's hard to do PE at the beginning and end of the school year.

 

 

So... I'm home sick for the third day in a row. :/ I went in this morning and was told to go home. :laughingsmiley: I have a cold and it just got to the coughing stage... I had a coughing fit, and I've been told by many people that I sound like I'm dying when that happens, so... now I'm home! haha.

[Iona]

Each school year is divided into sections. There's semesters. (2 a year, first half of the year, and second half) and each semester is broken into 2 quarters. (The quarters aren't really important.)

 

But each semester/half a year of a class, is considered a credit. So there were 8 credits required for English. So you either had to take a English class every semester of every year, or take more than one some semesters.

 

They required like, 11 credits of electives, 4 credits of a foreign language, 4 credits of PE, 6 credits of math, etc. And you could only graduate once you fulfilled the credit requirements.

 

Oh okay. That makes sense.

Thanks for the explanation XD

[Spritzie]

I never liked the credit system. You really had to plan ahead. And I was very against the foreign language one, mostly because the languages they offered were limited, and they didn't offer sign language.

 

While ASL isn't technically a "foreign" language, most people would get so much more use out of it after school, than the others, except Spanish (Spanish is the second largest language group here) or if you planned to travel somewhere where you would use it. My sister took German through out grade school, middle school and HS, and she's never used it.

[Iona]

Sign language would be an interesting one.

 

My dad's fluent in German, haha. I do Spanish and French at school; and I also go to Mandarin Chinese lessons on Saturdays. I love foreign languages and plan to continue with them at Uni.

[Spritzie]

I loved sign language. I taught myself most of it in 6th grade, because we had quite a few deaf kids in my grade, and I had 1 or 2 is most of my classes. I wanted to be able to talk with them.

 

I'm a visual learner though, so sign language was super, super easy for me. I tried learning Spanish, and it didn't go well at all. I just don't learn as well when something is so verbal.

[rachiee]

My school only offers French and Spanish, and the high school has Italian Club. That's pretty much it as far as I know of. :/

I really do want to learn other languages though- specifically, Italian, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese and ASL (if that counts). c:

[Iona]

Aww that's lovely, Spritz :)

 

A couple of Chinese people came to my school and couldn't speak a word of English. That's what motivated me to start going to Chinese School again last year. But I lack the confidence to speak it. I did try speaking to the Chinese girl who came to my school this year, but she just stared blankly at me with an awkward smile. According to the teachers she's really shy, for obvious reasons. I wrote her a note in Chinese instead and gave it to her. Now we just smile awkwardly in the corridors, she never wrote me a note back haha. She's a few years below me but I feel so sorry for her as she has nobody to talk to and no friends. I'm too embarrassed to talk to her now. My friends don't make it easy for me. They always point her out to me and demand I talk to her. Once they even tried to shove me into her so that I'd have to apologise....

[IrishLiz]

I took French, and I liked it a lot. I went to France, so I got to use it a bit, but when I was in Paris, as soon as I started speaking in French, I would get responses in English. I did have to use it in northern France though. The funny this is, now I need to know Spanish for my trips in central america.

 

I think asian languages are really difficult, because the structure is so different.

 

Spritzie, I wish I knew some ASL - I teach a kid's choir and I think it would be neat to have them do a song in sign language.