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by Kleomentia » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:09 pm
by The Corparation » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:11 pm
The Warrior Hearted wrote:Keronians wrote:
Are Honours classes like Advance Placements?
The A-level course (2 years) is equivalent to your first year of college in America, I'm told.
Why, I still don't understand, but Nor told me that that's because the stuff we do is much harder than what the average High Schooler does, and would, in essence, be the equivalent of what you'd learn as a first year in college.
honors is about half of AP. You dont go as in depth and the work isnt as hard.
They also dont give you college credit like AP classes do
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by Kleomentia » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:12 pm
The Corparation wrote:The Warrior Hearted wrote:honors is about half of AP. You dont go as in depth and the work isnt as hard.
They also dont give you college credit like AP classes do
You only get college credit if you get a 3 on the test. And even then some colleges nowadays only accept it for credit if you get a 4. The tests are expensive too. Still I have bragging rights as I got a 5 on a test.
by The Warrior Hearted » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:13 pm
The Corparation wrote:The Warrior Hearted wrote:honors is about half of AP. You dont go as in depth and the work isnt as hard.
They also dont give you college credit like AP classes do
You only get college credit if you get a 3 on the test. And even then some colleges nowadays only accept it for credit if you get a 4. The tests are expensive too. Still I have bragging rights as I got a 5 on a test.
by Salvarity » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:13 pm
by Keronians » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:15 pm
The Warrior Hearted wrote:Keronians wrote:
Are Honours classes like Advance Placements?
The A-level course (2 years) is equivalent to your first year of college in America, I'm told.
Why, I still don't understand, but Nor told me that that's because the stuff we do is much harder than what the average High Schooler does, and would, in essence, be the equivalent of what you'd learn as a first year in college.
honors is about half of AP. You dont go as in depth and the work isnt as hard.
They also dont give you college credit like AP classes do
by Grenartia » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:15 pm
by Nationstatelandsville » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:15 pm
by The Warrior Hearted » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:16 pm
Keronians wrote:The Warrior Hearted wrote:honors is about half of AP. You dont go as in depth and the work isnt as hard.
They also dont give you college credit like AP classes do
I see.
You do AP classes, yes?
Post that question again. The one with the angle and velocity. I learnt how to work it out with Pythagoras' theorem and the parallelogram method in physics last week.
by The Corparation » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:16 pm
The Warrior Hearted wrote:The Corparation wrote:You only get college credit if you get a 3 on the test. And even then some colleges nowadays only accept it for credit if you get a 4. The tests are expensive too. Still I have bragging rights as I got a 5 on a test.
The tests are free at my school :/
They only cost money if you want them to rescore your multiple choice
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by Keronians » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:17 pm
Nationstatelandsville wrote:Keronians wrote:
Are Honours classes like Advance Placements?
The A-level course (2 years) is equivalent to your first year of college in America, I'm told.
Why, I still don't understand, but Nor told me that that's because the stuff we do is much harder than what the average High Schooler does, and would, in essence, be the equivalent of what you'd learn as a first year in college.
Sort of. Honors classes are more advanced classes yes, but they aren't like skipping an 11th grade class for a 12th grade class.
by Keronians » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:18 pm
by Nationstatelandsville » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:19 pm
Keronians wrote:Nationstatelandsville wrote:
Sort of. Honors classes are more advanced classes yes, but they aren't like skipping an 11th grade class for a 12th grade class.
US system confuses me.
In my school and in the UK, everybody wanting to progress beyond obligatory education (until 16) does the A-level. The A-level is a two year course split into six units per subject. You are examined on 3 units in May and June of your first year, and the other 3 in May and June of your second year.
After that, your scores are added together to give you the final grade for that subject.
Supposing you drop one subject at the end of your first year, that is counted as only half credit.
In the US, I'm told that the A-level is basically AP.
by Keronians » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:20 pm
by Nationstatelandsville » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:21 pm
Keronians wrote:Nationstatelandsville wrote:
Sigh. My 8th grade classes don't have honors.
Really, I'd like to try it. Looks good on a college application.
And if you do AP, then you skip a year of college, while still getting full credit. That's $10,000 saved.
I tutor younger students at my school, do community service, worked in the summer, and do sports just to put it on my CV, since it looks pretty good.
by Keronians » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:22 pm
Nationstatelandsville wrote:Keronians wrote:
US system confuses me.
In my school and in the UK, everybody wanting to progress beyond obligatory education (until 16) does the A-level. The A-level is a two year course split into six units per subject. You are examined on 3 units in May and June of your first year, and the other 3 in May and June of your second year.
After that, your scores are added together to give you the final grade for that subject.
Supposing you drop one subject at the end of your first year, that is counted as only half credit.
In the US, I'm told that the A-level is basically AP.
US systems are less like universities and more stringent. You can't drop classes.
by The Warrior Hearted » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:23 pm
by Keronians » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:23 pm
Nationstatelandsville wrote:Keronians wrote:
And if you do AP, then you skip a year of college, while still getting full credit. That's $10,000 saved.
I tutor younger students at my school, do community service, worked in the summer, and do sports just to put it on my CV, since it looks pretty good.
My high school does AP. It's different from Honors though.
by The Corparation » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:24 pm
Keronians wrote:Nationstatelandsville wrote:
Sort of. Honors classes are more advanced classes yes, but they aren't like skipping an 11th grade class for a 12th grade class.
US system confuses me.
In my school and in the UK, everybody wanting to progress beyond obligatory education (until 16) does the A-level. The A-level is a two year course split into six units per subject. You are examined on 3 units in May and June of your first year, and the other 3 in May and June of your second year.
After that, your scores are added together to give you the final grade for that subject.
Supposing you drop one subject at the end of your first year, that is counted as only half credit.
In the US, I'm told that the A-level is basically AP.
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by The Warrior Hearted » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:25 pm
by Keronians » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:27 pm
The Corparation wrote:Keronians wrote:
US system confuses me.
In my school and in the UK, everybody wanting to progress beyond obligatory education (until 16) does the A-level. The A-level is a two year course split into six units per subject. You are examined on 3 units in May and June of your first year, and the other 3 in May and June of your second year.
After that, your scores are added together to give you the final grade for that subject.
Supposing you drop one subject at the end of your first year, that is counted as only half credit.
In the US, I'm told that the A-level is basically AP.
AP classes work completely different from A levels. They're just a regular class you go to like any other class except they're more in depth and make you "study at the college level" * come may you can take a test offered by the college board that if passed can you college credit depending on the college and the score. Some colleges accept the standard pass score of 3, a few only take 4s and some don't take any but like to see that you've taken them.
*Having now entered college I'd like to call that most of what my High school teachers said about college is flat out wrong, only a few of them actually know what its like these days mostly the younger ones that have graduated in the past decade or so. Just like my middle school teachers who were persistent in what they said high school would be like, I doubt any of them have set foot in a high school since they started teaching as 99.9% of what they said was wrong.
by The Corparation » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:29 pm
Keronians wrote:The Corparation wrote:AP classes work completely different from A levels. They're just a regular class you go to like any other class except they're more in depth and make you "study at the college level" * come may you can take a test offered by the college board that if passed can you college credit depending on the college and the score. Some colleges accept the standard pass score of 3, a few only take 4s and some don't take any but like to see that you've taken them.
*Having now entered college I'd like to call that most of what my High school teachers said about college is flat out wrong, only a few of them actually know what its like these days mostly the younger ones that have graduated in the past decade or so. Just like my middle school teachers who were persistent in what they said high school would be like, I doubt any of them have set foot in a high school since they started teaching as 99.9% of what they said was wrong.
Well, yeah, you don't get anywhere without the exams in A levels either.
Nor in GCSEs, which is what I did last year.
Classwork is simply notes, and practice to help you and prepare you for the exam.
Top universities in the UK tend to ask for a minimum of AAA at A-level.
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by Keronians » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:31 pm
The Corparation wrote:Keronians wrote:
Well, yeah, you don't get anywhere without the exams in A levels either.
Nor in GCSEs, which is what I did last year.
Classwork is simply notes, and practice to help you and prepare you for the exam.
Top universities in the UK tend to ask for a minimum of AAA at A-level.
I'm wondering would the A levels be more comparable to the SAT and ACT then?
by The Warrior Hearted » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:33 pm
by The Corparation » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:34 pm
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