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TL2012
Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:58:20 +0000

So how do you get a 94-100 on a course.Here we’ve the 100 marks tests for each subjects that a student chooses for the grade 12( I had Physics,Chemistry,Mathematics,Biology and English).Lets take the example of Physics.Now,the maximum marks that can be scored is 100,with different topics carrying different marks(but they all add up to a 100),so for instance Electrostatics may be worth 10 marks,Magnetism worth 15,Optics worth 12 and so forth until the topics add up to give a 100(the weightage for the individual topics is declared a year before the exams by the federal government,after the end of our academic year we appear for the 3 hour exams administered by the federal government on a national scale).Its just like the SAT with the only difference that the raw scores aren’t converted into scaled scores.The maximum marks that can be scored in a subject is 100 and the marks that you score are your raw scores.There’s no negative marking.So if a person gets a 99 out of 100 in chemistry it means he/she may have got a 1 mark question wrong or committed a small mistake in a 2,3 or 5 marks question so that the examiner deducts 1 mark from the answer for that particular question.The entire process that I just mentioned is used at the High school level,I’ve never been to a college and so am not aware of their marking system.

My dad got a PC for me when i was in grade 4, but its really tragic I never bothered to learn Excel.Even now I’ve got loads of good ebooks on learning Excel and Access but after reading a few pages I always find myself doing something else.I mean I’d rather read Resnick and Halliday than venture into the unchartered territory of Excel.Anyways since that class will be after October I’ve got plenty of time to DO something about it.We’d all have enough stuff to worry about and if a student has to start from scratch(the understanding part) in a class while that class is already in session then I guess the student will end up failing in that subject in addition to lowering his grades in other subjects just because he/she couldn’t devote much time to them.

I’ve heard some pretty scary stories of the professors in this forum–“I’m here to answer some specific questions,NOT to teach the material”.I’m confident that I can manage Physics,Chem and Maths without a professor(at least a C if not a B) but if I get that Excel class in my 1st trimester,I’m in big trouble.