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Killswitch
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Posted: 17th Aug 2006 21:37
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For some of us (insane) Brits who chose to stay on at school for an extra two years to do A - Levels it was results day today! I've finished the first year (As) and I got the following:

Philosophy - A
History - A
Geography - A
Maths - B

How did everyone else do?

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Zotoaster
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Posted: 17th Aug 2006 22:06
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Well I just did my Standard Grades (or O Grades as they used to be called), these are my results:

Music - 1
Maths - 2
Chemistry - 2
German - 2
Computing - 2
Physics - 2
English - 3
Geography - 3

(English and Geog were the best I could do at the level I sat)

I'm not fully úber happy, but happy enough I guess.

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Lukas W
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Posted: 17th Aug 2006 22:17
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ok, in norway 6 is the highest grade and 1 is the lovest grade aka fail. so.. yea
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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 18th Aug 2006 00:51 Edited at: 18th Aug 2006 00:54
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Nice. In the US we're graded on a percentile scale (0-100) for exams and a 1-5 score, 1 lowest, 5 highest, for "AP exams". I've only taken one AP exam (AP World History) so far (will be taking 3 this year), and surprisingly got a 4 . I don't really get how things work in Europe, so I can't really compare it with anything...if you pass AP exams you get college credit for that class, or at least partial, depending on the college. 3-5 is passing with AP exam, 70% and above is passing with exams (and every other grade in school). I think that Europe does the percent thing as well but not with exams?

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Matt Rock
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Posted: 18th Aug 2006 00:57
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When I was in high school new york state had "regents." Do they have those elsewhere?

In the US our "level system" or grade system is kintergarden, then 1st grade through 12th grade. We don't have an option, you just go until you finish, then you get into college based on your SAT's. 1st grade to 5th grade is elementary school, 6th grade to 8th grade is middle school (sometimes called Junior High), then 9th grade to 12th grade is high school.


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Killswitch
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Posted: 18th Aug 2006 01:18
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Well in the UK we have compulsory education upto the age of 16 (at the end of which you take GCSE exams) then you can opt to do A-Levels for two years, another sort of of course or just drop out of school completely.

A* is the highest grade you can achieve at GCSE while A is the highest you can get at A-Level.

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Posted: 18th Aug 2006 02:39
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I don't wish to put a downer on it, but I think the dropped standards for A levels is really going to cause problems in the future. I mean, this year apparently 96.6% passed!
The problem will arise when someone with A levels taken this year is applying for a job where there are people with the same grades (or slightly lower) but from A levels taken 5+ years ago. Employers are going to have real trouble comparing like-for-like.
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Killswitch
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Posted: 18th Aug 2006 03:04
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That's right, 96.6% passed, but you have to remember that a pass counts as anything above a G. Only 24ish% got an A grade at A2, so there's not really that many people acheiving the top grades.

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Zappo
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Posted: 18th Aug 2006 03:10
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So basically a quarter of everyone who took them got the top grade! Out of 7 possible grades! Still a bit shocking
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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 18th Aug 2006 04:49 Edited at: 18th Aug 2006 04:50
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AP exams are graded in comparison to everyone else, as in, one year if you get 70/80, you could get a 5, and one year you could get 70/80 and get a 3, it all depends on how good everyone else does, it's not graded on percentile. So if you happen to be taking it at the same year as a bunch of idiots, well...lucky you .

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David T
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Posted: 18th Aug 2006 12:13
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4 A's.

Maths (A A):
C1 91 (again!)
C2 100
C3 92
C4 93
M1 100
M2 94
D1 98

Chemistry (A): can't remember the individual ones.

Physics (A): module 1 90/90; module 2 90/90; module 3 106/120.

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Manic
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Posted: 18th Aug 2006 14:58
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well, congratulations to everyone who's just got their results, i hope you get to go to where ever it is you were aiming for!

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Virtual X
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Posted: 18th Aug 2006 16:22
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lol, did everyone read about that guy who got 10 A-levels with grade A, that is one hardcore student lol
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Bahamut
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Well done everyone Nice to see people getting good grades.



I got

Chemistry: A (I'm completely over the moon about this. I got 96% on one of the tests. Really suprising seeing as I've averaged C's all year)

Maths: B (This was a relief seeing as I've averaged U's all year )

Biology: B

I know it's really selfish, greedy and arrogant, but I'm really disappointed with Biology. Mainly because I went into the last two exams on an high A, but did badly to bring it down to a high B. However, I did sacrifice my revision to concentrate on Maths. ABB gets me into uni. AAU won't, so I guess it's for the best.

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Jonny_S
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Posted: 18th Aug 2006 17:55
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I got up from a BCDD to a BBB. I was damn happy and very drunk last night

I finally changed the bad spelling
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BiggAdd
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Posted: 19th Aug 2006 06:37 Edited at: 19th Aug 2006 06:39
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I got A-Biol, B-Phys,B-Chem,C-Maths. Im annoyed because i was only about 20 points off 2 more A's. But cant complain because only did about 1 night of revision for each topic (Apart from Biol. But i'm dropping that anyway).

Terribly fun night though afterwards. Got Quite tipsy.

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David T
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Posted: 19th Aug 2006 12:59
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Quote: "But cant complain because only did about 1 night of revision for each topic"


Did you not revise, Adam?

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Posted: 19th Aug 2006 14:05 Edited at: 19th Aug 2006 14:06
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Dont beleive me if u want. Aslong as i get a place in Aerospace Engineering i'll be sorted.

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David T
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Posted: 19th Aug 2006 19:53
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It was an in joke, add....

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Okalydokaly. Only 9 more months young David! Its gone so fast.

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