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Who has life changing exams coming up?

Got my A level exams next month. I know GCSE's are June time but anyone doing them this year?
Having been through them I will try and give some advice if you want it.
 
7 lessons a day, each 45 minutes. 20 minute break after period 2, then an hour break after 5 for lunch. Then 6 & 7 in the afternoon.
 
I used to have 5 lessons a day, each 1 hour long. 20 minute break between periods 2 and 3, 40 minute lunch and 20 minute tutor time between periods 4 and 5. Now I only have 1 lesson a day, and no tutor group.
 
Jai
I wonder why it's mandatory you must go to school.
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Because you're not going to get anywhere in life based on what you learned on the internet. So unless you want to play that one-in-nine-billion shot that you will be able to correctly guess six numbers out of forty-five and become fabulously wealthy as a result of it, you're not going to be going anywhere without school.

So I'll do you a deal - keep going to school until you graduate or until you win the lottery; whichever comes first. You've got a better shot better on me than you do the lotto.
 
I have 9 periods a day, each lasting 35 minutes, and then a compulsory activity slot for an hour afterwards. This means we start at 8am and end at 5pm, a really long day compared to most schools, I guess that is what happens when you go with private education :p

However, we get much longer holidays - 3 weeks for Christmas and Easter (most schools get 2) and 8 for summer (most get 6 round here) so I can be pretty smug for the next week when everyone else is at school and I'm sat at home pretending to revise for GCSE's for the most part, but I really can't be bothered :lol:
 
As for me 7 lessons a day each has 45 Minutes First 2 Lessons & then a break afterwards 3p lessons & then break and afterwards two lessons and then im out
 
prisonermonkeys
Because you're not going to get anywhere in life based on what you learned on the internet. So unless you want to play that one-in-nine-billion shot that you will be able to correctly guess six numbers out of forty-five and become fabulously wealthy as a result of it, you're not going to be going anywhere without school.

So I'll do you a deal - keep going to school until you graduate or until you win the lottery; whichever comes first. You've got a better shot better on me than you do the lotto.
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He's right, I've heard of people regretting that they didn't try harder in school, but I've never heard of someone that tried hard in school and later came to regret it.
 
Our schedule is:
  • Start at 8:05
  • 76 minute class
  • 5 minute break
  • 76 minute class
  • Lunch
  • 76 minute class
  • 5 minute break
  • 76 minute class
  • Done

I like it. 4 classes a semester, 2 semesters per school year.
 
Kino321-X
I'm currently a freshman in high school (graduating in 2015). No group really annoys me here, as I just stay with my own buddies from middle school. My grades have been excellent so far, straight As with only one B the whole year. I'm currently taking one AP class for college, World History, which can be a bore at times. I'm talking to this girl that I really like and trying to establish something, but she has a boyfriend so...yeah, wish me luck people. :scared:
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This sounds like...my entire HS career, but mostly sophomore year. Doesn't every good girl have a boyfriend? I swear when I'm talking to a girl I like and they say that word, I just want to throw something. Well, I'm a junior now, and I'm gonna tell you this, AP classes are good for your GPA, however, if you take too many at one time you're gonna get swamped with work and grades will drop. After this happens you are probably going to want to take honors classes instead, don't. I live by the saying "You have three options regarding work; 1.work hard now and have time to screw around later in life, 2.screw around now and work hard later in life, 3 kind of give a 🤬 now, and kind of give a 🤬 later in life."
 
Vandenal
Our schedule is:
  • Start at 8:05
  • 76 minute class
  • 5 minute break
  • 76 minute class
  • Lunch
  • 76 minute class
  • 5 minute break
  • 76 minute class
  • Done

I like it. 4 classes a semester, 2 semesters per school year.
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76minutes per class !
when do you guys done from school ?!
 
Celicaas
76minutes per class !
when do you guys done from school ?!
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Mine:
Start at 7:35AM
79 Minute Class
79 Minute Class
30 Minute period
Lunch
79 Minute Class
79 Minute Class
End at 2:10PM
 
We start school 7 20 AM & end at 1 35 PM & each lesson is 45 minutes How come you guys have longer time & finish at a near our ending time ?
 
Block schedule FTW!
Start 8:30
90 minute class
15 minute break
90 minute class
Lunch
90 minute class
End at 2:35
 
Ferrari_458
I have 9 periods a day, each lasting 35 minutes, and then a compulsory activity slot for an hour afterwards. This means we start at 8am and end at 5pm, a really long day compared to most schools, I guess that is what happens when you go with private education :p

However, we get much longer holidays - 3 weeks for Christmas and Easter (most schools get 2) and 8 for summer (most get 6 round here) so I can be pretty smug for the next week when everyone else is at school and I'm sat at home pretending to revise for GCSE's for the most part, but I really can't be bothered :lol:
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Not necessarily what happens when you go for private education (: .

I have 9 periods a day, 1 period lunch break, 40 minutes a lesson + 5 min. break between each class (to get to your next class etc...) . However, you also get a few free periods a week, and in IB we get a LOT of free periods :P .

We start at 8:20 and end at 3:50.

As for the holidays, we get -

2 weeks for Halloween

3 weeks Christmas,

2 Easter + 1 Ski Week (mid-February)

... and this year I have about 10 weeks of summer, because we finish school once we finish all our IGCSE exams (my last one's the 12th of June, and we restart school at the end of August).
 
Guml8all
... and this year I have about 10 weeks of summer, because we finish school once we finish all our IGCSE exams (my last one's the 12th of June, and we restart school at the end of August).
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Yeah, I have 11 weeks this year, my last exam is the 20th of June and I don't go back until early to mid September (don't remember the exact date..) which will be good, but I'll spend most of it dreading results day :nervous:
 
BMWM52012
This sounds like...my entire HS career, but mostly sophomore year. Doesn't every good girl have a boyfriend? I swear when I'm talking to a girl I like and they say that word, I just want to throw something. Well, I'm a junior now, and I'm gonna tell you this, AP classes are good for your GPA, however, if you take too many at one time you're gonna get swamped with work and grades will drop. After this happens you are probably going to want to take honors classes instead, don't. I live by the saying "You have three options regarding work; 1.work hard now and have time to screw around later in life, 2.screw around now and work hard later in life, 3 kind of give a 🤬 now, and kind of give a 🤬 later in life."
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Thanks for the advice :) It's true that all the good girls are almost always taken, but there's absolutely no one in my school that I'm interested in except her. As for classes, it looks like taking AP English and Physics next year might be a burden. You pretty much write essays every single day of the year, it's horrible. I'm taking the push, since I never faced a class that I couldn't handle (yet). Physics and Pre-Cal I think I'll do fine.
 
Got exams this term :(. Got summer holiday from end of june. Get 2 extra weeks at college:).
 
I had my week off a month ago. We're doing the Quadratic formula in math. I learned that a year ago, so I had free time today :)
 
Vandenal
I had my week off a month ago. We're doing the Quadratic formula in math. I learned that a year ago, so I had free time today :)
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It's amazing how Canadian education standards (or is it just British Columbia?) are behind international standards by three years. I've been learning how to multiply and factor polynomials in Grade 5 math in Kumon, which goes by the international standards. I only learned how to do this same stuff in Grade 8 school math.
 
1241Penguin
It's amazing how Canadian education standards (or is it just British Columbia?) are behind international standards by three years. I've been learning how to multiply and factor polynomials in Grade 5 math in Kumon, which goes by the international standards. I only learned how to do this same stuff in Grade 8 school math.
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Holy crap. I'm in 11th and I still can't do that garbage :mad:
 

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