<p>^ As in London, UK? If so, there’s been a weird influx of us recently…</p>
<p>Do any of you watch Elementary or TVD? I’m just having issues distinguishing between American and British accents in tv programmes and it’s really strange.</p>
<p>I don’t know what I really like to major in as a undergrad. but eventually I want to: either go to law school, or do something related to international business/relations/law.</p>
<p>Right now I honestly have no idea what I want to major in.</p>
<p>I want to be a vigilante</p>
<p>@UKgirl: How does your whole school system work? If your exams count for your entire grade, then do you not have regular tests throughout the year, or do they just not count toward your final grade? And are your finals at the end of sophomore year made by your teachers or are they standardized tests? Oh, and how do you refer to grade levels over there? I know you call junior & senior years sixth form, so are there 1st form, 2nd form, 3rd form, etc.? Do you ever call them freshman, sophomore, junior, senior? Haha sorry for all of the questions, I just get curious about how your schools work!</p>
<p>It depends on the subject, but normally we will have tests at the end of each unit, but these are just to check how we’re getting on with the material. Some subjects have coursework, which counts for between 25-60% of the final grade. It might be an extended essay written in class time or researching, making, writing up and testing a dress, which I’m doing now for textiles. All exams and coursework are standardised, although some coursework is marked by teachers but on a set mark scheme.
We used to have 1st form/year (think Harry Potter) but at most schools now we have a much simpler system. Year 1=kindergarten, year 2=grade 1 all the way up, including sixth form normally. Public schools (old private schools) have very different names. At Westminster, for example, 8th grade=5th form, 9th=lower shell, 10th=upper shell, 11th=6th form, 12th=remove. I don’t know why they’re different.</p>
<p>@goodnoodle me too!</p>
<p>Maths. Possibly maths and physics. I’m pretty boring in that respect.</p>
<p>@RoseOak3918 I’m gonna answer your question too, as people always seem to get confused between the English and Scottish systems and now’s as good time as any to clear it up.</p>
<p>We have six years of high school in Scotland (equivalent to grades 7-12) and call them S1, S2, etc., with S standing for ‘secondary’. (The 7 years before hand are P1, P2, etc., with P for ‘primary’.) Sometimes we refer to them as “nth year” (so I’m in fourth year).</p>
<p>We distinguish between tests, which are made up by teachers to check progress, and exams, which are made by a state board called the SQA and which are taken for the ‘final grade’ but primarily exist to give you qualifications. This is similar in England. You can think of it as a bit like AP exams, but compulsory with more levels of difficulty and replacing the concept of a high school diploma.</p>
<p>You choose 8 “standard grades” which you study in S3 and S4 (freshman and sophomore), with maths, english, a modern foreign language, a science, and a social science being compulsory. You then drop 3* of them in 5th year and do highers or intermediates (depending on your grade), and drop down to usually only 2 or 3 in 6th year to do advanced highers or highers.</p>
<p>…That’s pretty much it.</p>
<p>*Actually, sometimes people only drop 2, or do a “crash” exam, which is when you haven’t already completed the level below it.</p>
<p>so i’m taking my f=ma test on thursday which also happens to be the last day of midterms. THe thing is due on friday and midterms start monday. So im pretty much screwed and anyone else taking it?</p>
<p>Hows this for junior year?</p>
<p>AP US
AP Lang
AP Physics B</p>
<p>I havent taken physics before but i have people who can help me if i have trouble in AP physics</p>
<p>Doesn’t seem too hard purpledino. Go for it</p>
<p>@purpledino: Be prepared to write a ton, according to what other people have told me. Of course, it could be way different at your school, but I don’t think you can get away from note-taking and memorizing in APUSH. ;)</p>
<p>Hello, Thy Back in Black</p>
<p>K thanks guys. What AP classes are yall taking next year?</p>
<p>I’m taking:
AP US History
AP English Composition
AP Music Theory</p>
<p>I might take another, but those are for sure.</p>
<p>APUSH
AP English Language
AP Environmental Science</p>
<p>Every class AP next year.</p>
<p>AP Calculus BC
AP US History
AP English Language
AP Physics.</p>
<p>AP Physics and essentially the AP equivalents for my IB classes.</p>
<p>Idk what I’m even taking next year. For sure:</p>
<p>English AP Lang
APUSH </p>
<p>Likely:
AP Calc AB (I’m not doing great in Precalc…but will most likely take Calc)</p>
<p>No Idea:
AP Bio (This is based on a lot of factors. I wanna take Physics Honors with my friend who will be a senior next year. But the schools not completely sure theyll teach physics honors. Also my friend might fail Alg II, and if he does then he wont have room in is schedule for physics. Best case scenario: My friend takes Physics honors with me, and the school allows to double up and also take AP Bio.)</p>
<p>I’m taking:
AP Euro
AP Calc AB
AP Calc BC
AP English Lang. (My school actually doesn’t offer the official AP class, but the honors class is considered AP because we still take the exam in May and it covers the coursework of AP)</p>
<p>I really want my school to get an official AP Eng. Lang. class for next year, although I haven’t said anything to the dean of studies. I guess I’m hoping it will just happen to be on the course selection guide we get on Wednesday, haha. But I doubt it.</p>