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[Talapus]

And trig is quite useful for sailing in Cantr. You can calculate the angle you need to travel at to get back to a city that you have made several turns since leaving. You just make a vector diagram and calculate the total X and Y displacement, and then calculate the angle of the new triangle based on the side lengths you need.

[rklenseth]

I'll just turn the boat around. It's easier.

[Bran-Muffin]

That works but if your character finds out where an island is and he hasnt been there before...

I mainly just study the image my character has and the guessing I have OOC and plot the course... works most of the time.

[rklenseth]

I just plot the direction and landmarks if there are any.

[Cookie]

I got a B in Media a D in Maths and an E each in Chemistry and Physics.

[Sarah]

You can sort of specialize in American schools before you get to college, through elective and AP classes. . . . AP classes are college-level and will give you both high school credit (5 points for an A on a 4-point scale ) and college credit (though I think not all universities will give you credit). I personally plan on taking 8 AP classes my last 2 years of high school. . . . Which will leave me absolutely no free time (and probably no Cantr time) , but you get the opportunity to actually learn something of interest. (AP Physics and AP Statistics aren't exactly "of interest," but I'll do it just for the challenge. )

I've never used any advanced math, and I am not good at math, but it's interesting nonetheless. The same with more than just basic science, though that does have more use.

[the_antisocial_hermit]

The AP classes I took only gave you college credit if you took the AP tests in those subject areas at the end and passed with high marks (which also differed from college to college on what was accepted). We didn't have to take the tests either though. But it was the test, not the class that mattered. And they're freakin' hard too... well the Spanish one was...

I'd rather take a college's particular clep test and get out of classes. Got out of almost all my English and two Spanish classes that way.

But things coulda changed some on the AP front since I left highschool... and it depends on the states too. It was 4 years ago...

[rklenseth]

Some colleges don't accept AP for credit.

Anyways, if I had decided to continue into History instead of Television I would have been way ahead having take two AP course, one in American History and another in European History. That means I wouldn't have had to take two college semesters of American History and two of World Civilization.

[Xeemaar]

My GCE A'level results

General Paper (measures English skills and maturity of thought):
A
Physics:
B
Chemistry:
C
Mathematics:
D