Has anyone got any academic results? celebrate them here!

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i just got a DDD* on my course, way more then enough for my uni course

its the equivalent of 3 A's in A levels.

i only needed a DMM which is like...a B or a C haha.
and the grades go like this:

PPP
MPP
MMP
MMM
DMM
DDM
DDD
DDD*
D*D*D
D*D*D*
so quite a way (not that im bragging i just didn't think id make it)

anyone else get anything they'd like to share?

Congratulations!

I attained a 3.8 GPA out of 4 when I graduated from college/university in 2006.

thats awesome!, i hope you rubbed it in the face of all your classmates (i certainly did with the one i just got, but they deserve it, they bullied me all the way through)

What is your major, Random?

oh, in england we sort of do college before uni (its like the british equivilant to american high school). it was a level 3 BTEC course in IT. when uni starts for me in september ill be doing a degree (or "majoring" haha im learning american) in game design.

So you're now Level 3, right?

now, just finished level 3 (thats where my results came from) so like, the thing i just finished is considered a level 3 difficulty of work, and in england university is considered level 4 then in the latter years level 5. do you have those levels in America? cos that might allow it to make more sense? its like: primary school goes on from the ages of 4-11, high school goes on from the ages of 11-16 and college goes on from 16-18 (two year) and uni goes from 18-22 (if all done at once, and depending on the length of the course. thats sort of how the british education system goes. im 19 (just finished the college stage) im 19 because i was chronically ill so had to repeat a year in high school.


so ive just completed level 3, so im going onto uni which is level 4 then level 5.


this is weirdly difficult to explain, i guess its like the american education system. i get the whole elementary school, middle school, high school then college (or university as we call it) but i have no idea what the grades mean,for example being in the "11th grade", i suppose thats like being a year 11 in england. the last year of high school basically, or middle school for americans? welp now my brain hurts

An 11th grader is a "junior" in high school. It's the 2nd to last year of high school for American kids. It's equivalent to 4th Form in the UK. Kids are usually 16-17 years old during Junior Year.

A 12th grader is a "senior" in high school. It's the last year of high school for American kids. It's equivalent to 5th Form in the UK. Kids are usually 17-18 years old during Senior Year.

In the US, we take the SAT or ACT during Junior or Senior Year. In New York State, we take the Regents. The Regents are more like the O-Levels in the UK than the SAT or ACT.

In the UK, after the completion of the 5th form, you would take the O-Levels.

People who are academically-inclined go to "6th-Form College" in the UK. This is where they prepare for their A-Levels. Others are more vocationally-inclined, and do what you did.

The US doesn't have as good a vocational-qualification system as the UK.

The completion of A-levels is somewhat equivalent to having had two years of college in the US. However, one, apparently, has to go to University for three years after A-levels in order to earn the Bachelor's.

Greetings. I am just interested how different the school systems are. I'm from Canada. For us, it goes like this: elementary school, high school, university/college/a bunch of other things. Elementary school is grades K-8 (so 3/4-13/14 years-old), high school is grades 9-12 (so 14/15-17/18 years-old), and university/others is ages 17+, because you can get a bachelor, master, or Ph.D (doctorate degree). Some people finish school when they are almost 30 years-old here. Depending on the profession.

Here, we don't have SATs or A-levels or whatever. We do have some standardized testing; in grade 3, 6, 9, and 10. Grade 3 and 6 are English and math; grade 9 is math; and grade 10 is English. You have to get above a 75% in the grade 10 test to get your high school diploma. Everything else you can fail and still do well in school and graduate.

We also don't have GPAs really. I don't really understand the GPA system. My average overall for grade 11 was 86%, which is considered an A overall. We have honour roll, and if you get above an 80%, you made honour roll, so I made honour roll. All my courses but one this year were above 80%. We don't really have middle schools here. There are a few, but middle school is still considered elementary school for us.

This may only apply for Ontario, Canada since education here is done by province and is not decided by the federal government.

Phi Theta Kappa

it's whatever tho, I take classes I am interested in and run for the hills from everything I would struggle with

ah okay if you know what an O-level is in the UK (we call them A-levels now...for some reason) then my course is like an O-level but focused on one subject, and is worth 3 O-levels.

I earned my BA degree in 1979 in 4 years.

nice!