Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1915529-20140702204420/@comment-3547390-20140817022223

I accidentally closed this tab while researching British education, so I will make this rather brief as I am too lazy to rethink everything again...

I am the same way. Look at how lazy I am with Q2, with only 11 levels to go which would take 3 days if I focused on it. But, it is a hobby, we sometimes just have to stop when we don't feel like something. Speaking of which... what happened to EmeraldWolf? He gave himself a list and admin status, then disappeared again!

Heh, my animation was easy after the first 30 seconds (400 or more frames there). Doing everything took so much work and precision to get it to look exactly right. I guess I was trying to prove what more serious animating is like. Then I went and derped it up, showing the rip off of having amazing intros for a derpy video!

British people evil? Never heard that one. Mostly just the Oxford stuff, the fox hunt stuff, the tea stuff, the jolly attitude of everyone, and all that. Basically, National Lampoon's European Vacation is our education on British people and stereotypes.

At this point I researched a bunch of stuff and figured out what I could compare your stuff to. GSCE and A-level are tests, right? Secondary school is basically our middle school combined with our high school. So, what I have seen, you need to take GSCE first and then take the A-Level. I don't think there is anything to compare to a GSCE, you can just take the A-Level test (which is the test needed to graduate). An A-Level test is basically our standardized test. Of course, that means we can squeeze in a ton of other tests that are just used for college evaluations and can be used to turn us away. That is another standardized test called the SAT, then you have AP testing which basically gives you the edge over the standardized even though every other high school kid probably will take AP classes if they have a brain (it does flush out the kids not serious about learning and just there for the sake of being there however).

Each state is different with standardized tests. For example, Utah (for Dominus' sake) doesn't have such a test. Massachusetts on the other hand has the MCAS. They are taken in 9th and 10th grade, which is the first two levels of high school or the third and fourth levels of secondary school (if grades work the same over there). 9th basically is for Science, while 10th is for English and Math. There is no teacher for it and really no class on preparing for it, though the relative class will prep you on the test (meaning that while it isn't designated as such, it really is a preparation class). They are taken in three different sessions, one being just for Science in 9th, the other two being a mixture of English and Math. They will often have multiple parts and usually take about 4-5 hours. As I believe there are 9 sections, it probably is half an hour per section. Each section is timed and must be finished in the allotted time, though usually not answering is better than getting something wrong due to losing points if you choose the wrong answer. I think you need a certain number of points to pass.

Heh, I have never really had problems with any class besides Spanish. Did two years perfectly (with a different teacher), then was told I had no idea how to do stuff from those two years in my third year. I decided to stay after to remember the first two years, only to be turned away as I am a third year and thus know the first two years (how that works, I will never know). I used speech programs, studied textbooks chapters past where we went, and yet still could never get better than a C. The teacher said that everybody can't be good at everything. Of course, that means she didn't put any effort into helping me when I tried putting everything forward, but that's beside the point. She never became the dancer or whatever she wanted, so I have to learn that I am not that good at Spanish.