Cantr II Discussion Forum

Got my A Level results on Thrusday, and A and two B's. Good going I thought!

AB in leisure and Recreation and B in biology, plus top grade in Key Skills communcation.

Planning on going to college to do Sports Science.

Anyone else get results over the summer?

I got my As results.
Chemistry A
Physics A (293 out of 300)
Maths A
Biology B.
That's all.

Three sciences and Maths to boot! That's great mate! You'll ace them next year! Are you going to drop one of them for your A Levels, you seem to be able to handle the work load not to need to!

European education is much different than American.

What is the form of education before you go off to college? We do a 2 or 3 year course specialising in 3 or 4 subjects, usually relative to what we aim to do in college, from 16-18 years of age.

I dropped out of colledge and became a world famous hip hop star.

Well, I would have, had I ever been enrolled in colledge.

Báng wrote:What is the form of education before you go off to college? We do a 2 or 3 year course specialising in 3 or 4 subjects, usually relative to what we aim to do in college, from 16-18 years of age.

We don't really even begin specializing until College. But it really depends from state to state. And you still need to take everything even in your first year or two of college.

America believes in the whole well rounded education. Now for someone who excells in history and English that really screwed me because I didn't too well in the sciences, maths, and foreign language. I believe that everyone should learn the basics but by the time you're through Middle School (or Junior High for others) one has learned all the basics for the most part. I have yet to use trig or find a purpose to know why and how frogs do the nasty.

Serenity wrote:I believe that everyone should learn the basics but by the time you're through Middle School (or Junior High for others) one has learned all the basics for the most part. I have yet to use trig or find a purpose to know why and how frogs do the nasty.

Agreed!

the_antisocial_hermit wrote:

Serenity wrote:I believe that everyone should learn the basics but by the time you're through Middle School (or Junior High for others) one has learned all the basics for the most part. I have yet to use trig or find a purpose to know why and how frogs do the nasty.

Agreed!

Seconded!

I use basic math when I sell or buy things and pay for stuff, but other than that, I have to say you're absolutly right.

You haven't had to use trig? Savages. I find that I use trig almost every day for calculating angles and vectors. It is true that US schools (at least public schools, I can't speak for private schools, but I believe they are the same) don't allow you to specialize until college (where you still have to take a rounded set of classes for the first year). College and grad school are where you learn specialized skills.

What do I need to caculate angles anf vectors? I'm not an engineer and I don't plan to be.

I was hoping that was a joke, eh?

The highest math skill I use anymore is algebra. And that's mostly for Cantr.

I have to use Trig alot, mainly cause I am an engineer though. Strange thing was History and English were my strengths in High School but I chose Engineering.

Nowadays my English is only used for Cantr