My opinion on school

[powdski]

The American school system basically works like this. We first have grades Pre-kindergarten to 8th Grade. Colleges won't look at your grades from this time, but in some cases, like the one mentioned on this thread, it can get you into better high schools, and this is where your grades count towards College. Now high school is divided into four grades. 9, 10, 11, 12. Otherwise known as freshman, sophmore, junior, and senior years. We have 4 terms and 2 semesters. Two terms per semester with a final for each semester. Now Colleges will only look at your semester grade. I don't know how it is at other schools but at mine each term counts for 40% of your final grade and the grade you get on your final counts for 20%.
There are other things I could talk about with our system, but that is the basics. Of course, I probably missed things here and there. I'm also not sure if you have GPA(grade point average) over where you live because I'm not familiar with other school systems myself But if you have any other questions about our system I could probably answer.
This is the scale we are graded on(it can very depending on the school)
A+ 98-100
A 93-97
A 90-92
B+ 87-89
B 83-86
B- 80-82
C+ 77-79
C 73-76
C- 70-72
D+ 67- 69
D 60-66
F 0-59

Lol my grade system in my school is so strict.

A+ 99-100
A 96-98
A- 93-95
B+ 90-92
B 87-89
B- 84-86
C+ 80-82
C 77-79
C- 74-76
D+ 70-73
D 67-69
D- 64-66
F+ 60-63
F 57-59
F- 54-56​

 

[ThatTyle]

Listen to this, my exact opinions.

 

[iTheManWithNoName]

To be honest, I think school is important however they need to get rid of homework for the most part. Seriously, I don't want to have to do school work at a place where we are allowed to do a lot of other things with less restrictions :/

If there was no homework, I would do absolutely nothing about school, I have never had to learn very hard for something, and Im in 11th grade..

 

[YourAverageTiger]

Hey everyone, Silently Here! Once again for the topic of school.

Ill provide a story and later some advice.

On to the story.

Ever since the middle of the year 6th grade I've been failing school. 55% averages in all my classes. I didn't realize how important 7th grade was in order to get into a good school, unfortunately I failed the marking periods. Failed all 3 except the last one. I advise its extremely stressing to be failing school. Unfortunately I got into the worst schools possible involving Gangs, graffiti, drugs alcohol and anything that can do wrong to you. Fellow kids getting jumped, people carrying knives and stuff. Well back to my story. 8th grade I also did extremely bad and in order to graduate I needed to pass the last 2 marking periods considering I failed the first 2 with 55's. this was the most stressing thing of my life and now I'm in 9th grade in one of the worst schools. But fortunately I'm doing extremely good in honors classes with 85%+ averages,



Advice

Do good in school so it can benefit you guys don't mess up your future like I did. Please I look out for you people by anyways thanks for reading! Also I'm transferring from this terrible school to a way better school due to my grades so its never TOO late to fix your errors. Hopefully you guys actually listen to this. <3

-Silently​

Its true that stuff distract you, I can speak for some.

 

[Giggity69Goo]

Exactly what are you doing to be performing like that in middle school?

 

[Silently]

Exactly what are you doing to be performing like that in middle school?

Well, I just didn't care. :/ But now that I'm in high school I care way more and for that reason I'm now good in school!

 

[Giggity69Goo]

Well, I just didn't care. :/ But now that I'm in high school I care way more and for that reason I'm now good in school!

Why would you not care if you knew you had to raise your grades to get into nice schools?

 

[on9]

Does anyone know the system in hong kong? The system for me right now is I.B

 

[Silently]

Why would you not care if you knew you had to raise your grades to get into nice schools?

Well to be honest , I guess I did care i was just lazy :/.

 

[Lifeyz_]

Lmao if you think your school system is hard then dont even get me started on Sweden's new one

 

[Silently]

Lmao if you think your school system is hard then dont even get me started on Sweden's new one

Based on what people have told me I'm pretty lucky for having the American way of leaning because I've heard in other countries its way more complex and strict, do you mind on explaining the Sweden (new) way if education? I'm interested!

 

[Ephizav2]

how do you even fail..