Do you hold high standards for yourself?

[CrazyChik]

It's funny I always thought of places like Harvard and Cambridge and Oxford as the 'real' colleges.

 

[disneyoverload]

Percentage comes in handy in high school when determining the top 10 in a class. In my class there are about 20-25 kids who have a 95+ aaverage and we all have a shot to be in the top 10 so when one of us gets a 94 on a test and someone else gets a 95 it makes a huge difference to where we're ranked

How big is your school?

 

[saratogadreamin09]

It's funny I always thought of places like Harvard and Cambridge and Oxford as the 'real' colleges.

So did I, but I think the other person was refering to the fact that sometimes ivy leagues let kids in based on alumni connections

How big is your school?

500 kids total, 125 in my class

 

[Sparx]

Just because harvard has "conspicous acceptnace", which I dont think is true, doesn make it not a real college. I dont like that term

conspicuous acceptance really does make the difference, in my opinion. when a school by year, accepts more legends then new applicants (especially when legends are accepted no matter what, and new applicants have to jump through hoops on fire.)

 

[Sparx]

Percentage comes in handy in high school when determining the top 10 in a class. In my class there are about 20-25 kids who have a 95+ aaverage and we all have a shot to be in the top 10 so when one of us gets a 94 on a test and someone else gets a 95 it makes a huge difference to where we're ranked

are you ranked on a weighted scale?

because the way gpa is typically calculated is a=4, b=3, c=2, d=1, and f=0 and you add up the number that your grades equal. a 100 a is worth just the same as a 93 a.

 

[Sparx]

My expectations are lowering as the work gets harder but anything below an A is a disappointment and even an A will be retaken until it's an A*. My grades mean everything to me, which probably is a little bit sad but I really want to make something of my life. I don't get the mentality of people who accept a C because it's a pass, the lower your grade the lower your chances of getting accepted to college/uni/sixth form. That's just me personally though and for the record I constantly recieved D's in art last year and I didn't give a flying monkey xD

wow you must have had an awful art teacher if he was giving you Ds! i've never had anything less than an A in art, and to recieve less than an A in my art teacher's class, you would just have to refuse to do everything in there, i guess.

i made straight As for the first semester in my high school classes, but both of my college classes pulled a C and B. this semester my college class got another C. history just isn't my thing i guess.

i've never recieved a C as a final grade in any other class ever.

 

[CrazyChik]

wow you must have had an awful art teacher if he was giving you Ds! i've never had anything less than an A in art, and to recieve less than an A in my art teacher's class, you would just have to refuse to do everything in there, i guess.

i made straight As for the first semester in my high school classes, but both of my college classes pulled a C and B. this semester my college class got another C. history just isn't my thing i guess.

i've never recieved a C as a final grade in any other class ever.

My art skills are honestly equivalent to that of a 7year olds. I can't even draw hearts and stick people properly, it's not that I never tried it's just that I actually can't draw for toffee.

I want to study veterinary medicine so straight A's at A level are actually compulsory and if I can't do it at GCSE then I'm screwed. Luckily I am maintaining an A or A* average in every class so far.

ETA- Art is no longer compulsory this year so obviously I didn't take it.

 

[Sparx]

My art skills are honestly equivalent to that of a 7year olds. I can't even draw hearts and stick people properly, it's not that I never tried it's just that I actually can't draw for toffee.

I want to study veterinary medicine so straight A's at A level are actually compulsory and if I can't do it at GCSE then I'm screwed. Luckily I am maintaining an A or A* average in every class so far.

ETA- Art is no longer compulsory this year so obviously I didn't take it.

we only have to have one art class to graduate, and i took mine this year.

 

[CrazyChik]

we only have to have one art class to graduate, and i took mine this year.

Our school system is entirely different to yours. We don't graduate and we don't have to have certain amounts of classes or credits. We have compulsory subjects until 8th grade and then 9th and 10th are spent working towards our GCSE's (year 10 and 11 over here, are the two oldest comprehensive years unless the school extends to A levels which is years 12 and 13.) We have compulsory GCSE subjects like maths, english, science and welsh and the rest is up to you, I chose Geography, French, History and additional science (equivalent to 3 GCSE's instead of the usual 2)

 

[Sparx]

Our school system is entirely different to yours. We don't graduate and we don't have to have certain amounts of classes or credits. We have compulsory subjects until 8th grade and then 9th and 10th are spent working towards our GCSE's (year 10 and 11 over here, are the two oldest comprehensive years unless the school extends to A levels which is years 12 and 13.) We have compulsory GCSE subjects like maths, english, science and welsh and the rest is up to you, I chose Geography, French, History and additional science (equivalent to 3 GCSE's instead of the usual 2)

you don't graduate? what happens when you finish school?

 

[CrazyChik]

you don't graduate? what happens when you finish school?

Well when I finish my current school I will have however many GCSE's at whatever grade and then I will apply for a 6th form and do my A levels and then it's off to uni.
You don't have to go on to A levels, you can go straight to work or get an apprenticship. That's more for the erm rougher or not so smart people though.

 

[saratogadreamin09]

are you ranked on a weighted scale?

because the way gpa is typically calculated is a=4, b=3, c=2, d=1, and f=0 and you add up the number that your grades equal. a 100 a is worth just the same as a 93 a.

my school does a 0-100 average system, we dont use the 0-4.0 scale, so a 93 and a 100 are actually pretty far apart

 

[saratogadreamin09]

in my school art is a pass or fail class which means we dont get an actually average for it, we either pass it or fail it, and if you failyou have to go to summer school for it


good thing is most of the teachers are really generous and if you arent good at art they pass you for trying

 

[saratogadreamin09]

conspicuous acceptance really does make the difference, in my opinion. when a school by year, accepts more legends then new applicants (especially when legends are accepted no matter what, and new applicants have to jump through hoops on fire.)

but harvard is still an EXCELLENT school

 

[disneychick2721]

Dont set my standards that high. Im fine with an 80.
Most of the crap I learn in school Im not going to need.
I'll never be walking down the street, stop, and need to determine if a rock is igneous or sedimentary.

 

[iloveyou_belle]

im a mediocre student and im lazy but i usually get As all the time, i think i just understand things quickly, but i dont consider my standards as high. BUUUUT, when i get a B im pretty bummed. go figure.

i dont really have standards for anything, except food!!! i have verrrrry high standards for food.

 

[Disney Dork]

Sometimes, yeah. Sometimes I'll get kind of like "Uggg. I could have done better." But others I'm perfectly content with a C. It kind of depends on what it was, tho. If it was really hard and the majority of the class was struggling with it too, then I'll be as happy as happy can be to make a C. Most of the classes I get the lower grades in are Math/Science related tho. Although...in Biology right now I'm making a B! It's a miracle!

It's on the lower end tho....but you know what?! That's ok! Because I'm not planing on being a Biologist! 15 years from now, I'm not going to care about what body parts are in a grasshopper! All I'm going to care about is if the kids I'm teaching are able to add, subtract, multiply and divide!

Right now I'm making an A in PE...a B in History...a B in Biology...and either an A or B in Child Dev. Haven't gotten some of my grades back for that one yet tho, but I haven't gotten anything below a B on anything in there that I've gotten back so...yeah.

 

[Sparx]

my school does a 0-100 average system, we dont use the 0-4.0 scale, so a 93 and a 100 are actually pretty far apart

ooh okay. i really hate that scale, cause i work in a high school guidance office and sometimes we have to convert to our 4.0 scale to get a transfer student's gpa and its REALLY annoying. but thats usually the least painful thing that you have to do for a transfer. permanent records are my area of expertise, so i'm not really TOO involved in the gpa calculating unless we're short staffed.

 

[BabyPiglet]

my school does a 0-100 average system, we dont use the 0-4.0 scale, so a 93 and a 100 are actually pretty far apart

When you get to college, teachers won't care about percentages. The GPA is calculated on the point system.

but harvard is still an EXCELLENT school

But it's not a realistic type of school. The majority of people go to public state schools or community colleges.

Ivy leagues are great, but people don't really expect you to go to them. Employers are happy with public unis, but honestly don't even care what school you went to -- as long as you have your degree.

 

[WDW Girl]

its good to be like that [y]