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Title: Exam results
Post by: mapar007 on October 29, 2010, 06:37:04 am
In case anybody remotely cares: these are my 1st sem. exam results. (I only took a partial program, the rest will be in march/april)

French: 89%
Math A: 66% (miscalculations, and I completely blew one question which made up approx. 20%)
Math A (advanced 1): 80%

Only the math A result bugs me, but yeah... I'm kinda absent-minded, so add some stress => get guaranteed mistakes.
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: souvik1997 on October 29, 2010, 07:20:35 am
I would not be happy with any of those grades. Do better next semester! :)
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 29, 2010, 08:49:56 am
Ouch at Math A :S. Over here, my mom wanted me to have 70% in order to give me some sort of reward. At 80% she was even more happy. However I heard in USA and western Canada, people standards are much higher (they require 90-100). I was not too happy when I had under 75, personally, but in French class I had serious troubles with reading comprehension, so my goal was always the passing note, 60%, as I barely got that.
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: JustCause on October 29, 2010, 08:51:56 am
However I heard in USA and western Canada, people standards are much higher (they require 90-100).
Correct. However, it seems I am up to your standards :) almost all Cs. LOL should probably try trying.
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: mapar007 on October 29, 2010, 08:58:24 am
The level of education is also much higher in Western Europe than in the USA (or so I heard), because the funds for education are better here. Generally, Flanders is renowned for its (relatively) high educational standards. (that means the tests are harder, not that the grades are better)

Also, passing here requires 50%, not 60. You might also want to consider the fact that I had no assistance whatsoever (no teachers and whatnot) to help me study the material. :)
This kind of stuff passes as 'pretty good' to the normal people out there. To me it's 'meh, could do better, but why bother'. :P Yes, I'm lazy. And no, I'm not crafting an excuse :)

EDIT: Oh yeah, should mention this. We have a kind of 'waterfall system' here.
ASO: Algemeen Secundair Onderwijs (General Secondary Education): For people who intend to go to university. Has a very broad curriculum.
TSO: Technisch Secundair Onderwijs (Technical Secondary Education): Has nothing to do with tech, but it is a more 'focused' version of the above. Very few people actually go to higher education from here.
BSO: Beroepssecundair onderwijs (Professional Secondary Education): Teaches professions like baker, butcher, cook... For people who want a job immediately after highschool. The cliché (that is partly true), is that these schools are filled with dropouts and occasionally tardmuffins. Not all of them are, though, I know quite a few nice people from those schools. And no offence intended.

These systems were conceived as completely separate, but in practice, it works like this:

ASO -> if you fail-> TSO -> BSO. Generally, ASO and TSO are approximately equal as far as educational level is concerned, but the practical minds are mostly in TSO.

Regardless, this creates opportunities for 'tuned testing'. You can effectively make tests that are very difficult/very easy without creating too much trouble. It's up to you do decide whether this matters, but meh. (I'm ASO by the way)
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: souvik1997 on October 29, 2010, 09:44:23 am
I don't  want to brag, but my grades for this period is this:

Math:99
History:96
Physics+Chem:99
English:100
Art:100
Spanish:99

These are the type of grades my parents expect.
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: aeTIos on October 29, 2010, 09:45:50 am
 :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
whoooooooo
i dont get that high grades
 :o :o :o :o :o
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: mapar007 on October 29, 2010, 09:55:33 am
I got grades like that four years ago. Time long gone :P

What grade are you in, souvik? I don't know what your age translates to in the US system.
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: MRide on October 29, 2010, 12:54:16 pm
My parents want me to get all As, but as I'm taking three advanced classes and no free periods, that's probably not going to happen.  The only class I don't have an A or B in is Honors English (Apparently you don't need to start paragraphs with Output(1,3,"  ):P, and I have a C+ in that.
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: nemo on October 29, 2010, 01:16:33 pm
I don't  want to brag, but my grades for this period is this:

Math:99
History:96
Physics+Chem:99
English:100
Art:100
Spanish:99

These are the type of grades my parents expect.

AP computer science - 96
Chemistry - 99
German 3 - 98
Honors English - 92
Honors FST (math) - 100
Honors History - 80      //history is awful.
Latin 1 - 99

my parents expect me to do well in the classes i like (computer science, FSt), and pass in the classes i don't like (history).
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: MRide on October 29, 2010, 01:20:20 pm
My parents don't care if I like the class or not.  They expect me to get an A.

Hey, another Latin-taker. Salve!  (I'm in Latin III this year)
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: nemo on October 29, 2010, 01:26:49 pm
they expect me generally to get A's, but they understand i absolutely detest history, and so they allow me to get under a 90 in that class, except i really should be doing better than a low B high C....

Salve! i'd say my latin is not good, but i'm not that advanced. so here: Ich spreche Latein nicht so gut als Deutsch, was ich jetzt spreche.

Spoiler For translation:
I do not speak latin as well as German, which i'm speaking now.
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: qazz42 on October 29, 2010, 02:54:26 pm
for me I got

96 in science
97 in French
90 in science :D
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: MRide on October 29, 2010, 02:58:29 pm
I only got a 83 in AP Physics, but it's an incredibly hard class (the average was a 79)
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: Munchor on October 29, 2010, 03:04:08 pm
Math A: 19.8/20

My only test for now, I'm genius at maths ;)
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: Thegame on October 29, 2010, 03:18:41 pm
My parents expect me to get A's in all my classes or else they shout at me and try to kill me.   Being a math person I dislike english  but i managed write a junk essay an scrape  a 90.1/100 anyway.  I do that every year.
My physics first got a  50%  because i missed the final and was once sick for two weeks. My parents almost murdered me until i told them it was cause I missed it. Now it is up to a 82%. Every thing else got A's.
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: Deep Toaster on October 29, 2010, 03:24:41 pm
Wow, at our school they just give us the letter grade (A, B, C, or F). We don't even know our percentages unless we either calculate them ourselves, bribe our teachers, or find some hack in the grading system :P Pretty stupid IMO.
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: MRide on October 29, 2010, 04:39:07 pm
Yeah, that doesn't make sense.  We can access our grades online, down to the tenth of a percent. :)
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: souvik1997 on October 29, 2010, 04:39:51 pm
I'm in eighth grade, but I take classes equivalent to 9th and 10th grade classes.
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 29, 2010, 05:01:41 pm
For my grades they usually ranged like this:

English: 85%
-reading comprehension 0-80%
-other 90-100%

French: 55-65%
-reading comprenehsion 35-60% (I always passed in extremis)
-writting 65-90% (damn spelling/grammar... I reviewed my text 3 times and still ended up with 15-30 mistakes, dragging my total score down by this much)
-grammar 75%

Maths:
-Algebra 55-70%
-Trig (we barely did any) 75-80%
-Rest 80-100%

Computer science intro 80-100% (80 was only when a project had retarded rules like having to put a highscore system in a RPG involving just finding items and I decided to not follow them because it ruined the game. Otherwise I had 95-100% in everything)

Religion - 30-50%
Moral - 60-65%
Philosophy - 60-65% (I think you can notice what kind of class I hate the most here...)

Economy - 75-80%
History - 75-85% (I liked history class, unlike many other people around here)
Geography - 80-85%
Biology/ecology - 75-85% (100% if it involved lobster dissection... j/k)
Physical science/chem - 85-90% I hated it, but for odd reasons I always got high scores, even if it was friggin hard
Gym - 55-80% Depended of what we did. In a scenario where the teacher graded on performance, If it was badminton or Basket Ball, I got around 55-65%, if it was soccer (what you call football in Europe) or Volley Ball I got around 70-75%. If it was running/muscular exercise I got around 80%.
Arts - 65-75%, depending of what we did
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: MRide on October 29, 2010, 05:35:08 pm
Yeah, I hate when comp sci teachers make you follow stupid rules.  (Like six pages of paperwork for a program that calculates the area of a rectangle and the price to carpet it)
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: nemo on October 29, 2010, 05:37:15 pm
Yeah, I hate when comp sci teachers make you follow stupid rules.  (Like six pages of paperwork for a program that calculates the area of a rectangle and the price to carpet it)

this makes me love my computer science teacher more. we did a lab where you had to process data from a text file into two student objects in java. i made a program that would process an unlimited amount of students. ever since, she's been laid back with whatever i do.
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 29, 2010, 05:42:17 pm
In my last computer project, called Reign of Legends 0, (see download section if you got something other than Vista or 7), I would have gotten 100% if I added that damn highscore system. Seriously, though, that rule was so freaking retarded. 20% just for the score system, yet we had to do an adventure game... it did not even come close to fitting at all. If I cared about getting as high score as possible, I would have added it, but since I didn't, I prefered to keep the game as true to other adventure games as possible.

That reminds me... if Kerm ever does a Doors CS contest again, I should maybe port that game to calcs using DCS Libs...
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: MRide on October 29, 2010, 05:48:17 pm
Yeah, I hate when comp sci teachers make you follow stupid rules.  (Like six pages of paperwork for a program that calculates the area of a rectangle and the price to carpet it)

this makes me love my computer science teacher more. we did a lab where you had to process data from a text file into two student objects in java. i made a program that would process an unlimited amount of students. ever since, she's been laid back with whatever i do.
Yeah, my teacher likes me since I made a three dimensional array of pointers to dynamically create and array for a C++ project.
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 29, 2010, 11:24:02 pm
The worst ones gotta be the teachers that removes points from your score when you use a more optimized piece of code, just because they absolutely wanted you to use a specific function in particular. X.x
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: MRide on October 29, 2010, 11:34:00 pm
I tried to optimize a java program using Boolean logic, but apparently you can't type-cast a Bool to a byte, and you can't multiply a Bool by a number.

My teacher actually gives us some freedom, as long as we get the requirements done.  We had to do a ton of paperwork for C++, but not so much in java.
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: nemo on October 29, 2010, 11:45:55 pm
I tried to optimize a java program using Boolean logic, but apparently you can't type-cast a Bool to a byte, and you can't multiply a Bool by a number.

My teacher actually gives us some freedom, as long as we get the requirements done.  We had to do a ton of paperwork for C++, but not so much in java.

i know. i cringe everytime i have to use an If statement which can be simplified with boolean logic. i hate it.
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: MRide on October 29, 2010, 11:46:49 pm
So, in one aspect, TI-BASIC > Java?
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: nemo on October 29, 2010, 11:48:09 pm
in two aspects. boolean logic, and the simplicity of the graphscreen. can i get a buffer working in java? yes. but in TI-Basic it's already set up for you. which is awesome.
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: MRide on October 29, 2010, 11:49:10 pm
Yeah, that too.  But other than those, Java >> TI-BASIC
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: nemo on October 29, 2010, 11:52:17 pm
shift java's bits to the right TIBASIC units?! (http://www.leepoint.net/notes-java/data/expressions/bitops.html)
:P but yeah in the future i wouldn't doubt it if i made this method in all my programs in the future:

Code: [Select]
public int booleanLogic(Boolean b){
    if (b)
    return 1;
    return 0;
}
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: MRide on October 29, 2010, 11:54:26 pm
That wouldn't exactly be optimized, unless you used it enough.  But it could certainly come in handy.
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: nemo on October 29, 2010, 11:55:50 pm
it would never be optimized, since really the function just calls an if statement. so rather than having a function convert booleans to integers through if statements, why not just use if statements to begin with
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: MRide on October 29, 2010, 11:58:49 pm
I meant size-wise optimized. (Hey, that rhymed!)
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: calc84maniac on October 30, 2010, 01:29:00 am
It's been a challenge in my C++ class to not use things before we've learned them. For example, we haven't learned arrays or functions yet. >_>
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: AngelFish on October 30, 2010, 04:04:19 am
I don't have any programming classes, but the department heads decided that everyone needed to learn how to program in MatLab (as well as Mathematica) for some unidentifiable reason. They arranged a seminar for a few of the students that included "homework." The professors weren't too happy to find out that I used a calculator instead of Matlab to implement the speaker's overcomplicated algorithms. My calculator beat MatLab by several seconds  ;D

The other students got a kick out of it. Needless to say, the speaker did not...
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: shmibs on October 30, 2010, 05:02:37 am
/\as did i =D
my teacher thinks he can program and it made him angry when he discovered that everything he had learned to "program" on his "ipad" over a period of 6 months i could do with crap z80 hardware in a tiny fraction of the space and without the help of his lame object oriented programming :3
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: Munchor on October 30, 2010, 05:44:24 am
/\as did i =D
my teacher thinks he can program and it made him angry when he discovered that everything he had learned to "program" on his "ipad" over a period of 6 months i could do with crap z80 hardware in a tiny fraction of the space and without the help of his lame object oriented programming :3

Haha, my chemistry teacher asked me to hack a flash website so that she could get the .swf file to convert it to.fla to make the animation in portuguese (an animation of stars like the Sun running out of hydrogen).

She asked "Can anyone translate this?", so I installed a bunch of tools and did it. Hah, hope to get higher grade for it ;)
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: apcalc on October 30, 2010, 09:57:21 am
I have really come to the point to think that my grades are simply a result of my classes being so easy.  In some classes that I have taken in the past, I have felt challenged, but this year, the material we cover and the tests are so easy.  Also, my teachers will give me almost unlimited amount of time on tests, so I never have the problem of running out of time.

AP USH - 99
EAH Honors - 100
Spanish III - 100
English III Honors - 94 (I hate english :()
AP Chem - 100 (this class is a complete joke)
AP Bio - 100
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: qazz42 on October 30, 2010, 10:25:15 am
I don't have any programming classes, but the department heads decided that everyone needed to learn how to program in MatLab (as well as Mathematica) for some unidentifiable reason. They arranged a seminar for a few of the students that included "homework." The professors weren't too happy to find out that I used a calculator instead of Matlab to implement the speaker's overcomplicated algorithms. My calculator beat MatLab by several seconds  ;D

The other students got a kick out of it. Needless to say, the speaker did not...

goes to show how adults are complete babies when they realize that we > them in technology. I bet he was pretty mad at you for having superiority XD
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 30, 2010, 11:07:36 pm
Some teachers seem to have some sort of ego. Over here, my compsci intro teacher was amazed at what I could do compared to him and he did not try to make me lose points because I barely used any code he told us to practice with. I think in the end, as long as it was functional and met most requirements, that's all that counted for him. I hate requirements such as "must include OVER 9000 Gotos". Of course there was still the highscore thing, but it was said that we required one since the beginning anyway.
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: qazz42 on October 30, 2010, 11:10:25 pm
hmm, poor teachers, getting attacked by so many velcoraptors (xkcd)
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: shmibs on October 30, 2010, 11:22:23 pm
AP Chem - 100 (this class is a complete joke)
oh chemistry... XD
have you gotten to the part where they tell you that stretching out a clump of steel wool increases its volume?
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: AngelFish on October 30, 2010, 11:25:26 pm

goes to show how adults are complete babies when they realize that we > them in technology. I bet he was pretty mad at you for having superiority XD

She just stared.... and stared... and gave me a zero on the assignment.
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: qazz42 on October 30, 2010, 11:29:58 pm
should have told her how stupid she was and then drop the class. I think you dont need the class of you are smarter then them by over 9000 :P
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 30, 2010, 11:51:11 pm
Darn she sucks. Those teachers shouldn't even be teaching programming. X.x
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: mapar007 on November 04, 2010, 04:00:33 pm
At school I regularly outperformed teachers in tech or (to a lesser extent) math areas. (weird eh, considering the math grades I get? :P ) Well, I'm my own teacher now. So meh.
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 04, 2010, 09:07:38 pm
Yeah I think in that case, it can be better XD, as long as you are not the kind of person to procastinate a lot.
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: AngelFish on November 04, 2010, 09:42:00 pm
should have told her how stupid she was and then drop the class. I think you dont need the class of you are smarter then them by over 9000 :P

It wasn't a programming class. It was reactor design :P
If I drop it, I lose my degree and probably my job.
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 04, 2010, 11:58:29 pm
Reactor?? You are building nukes????
/me runs from Qwerty.55
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: AngelFish on November 05, 2010, 12:06:48 am
Reactor?? You are building nukes????
/me runs from Qwerty.55

Yep ;D

Actually, Chemical reactor design.
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 05, 2010, 12:11:43 am
Lol ok :P
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: AngelFish on November 05, 2010, 12:19:43 am
I did have some Uranium around here, though.

*rummages through desk*

Yeah, probably not a good idea to lose the radioisotopes...
Title: Re: Exam results
Post by: Jonius7 on November 05, 2010, 12:32:09 am
I am really good at maths, but recently, i have started to sway under series and seq, binomial and counting, algebra and quadratic stuff.
I think i am doing better in English than Maths! In primary school i used to be MUCH better at maths. Getting high distinctions and stuff. I even got PRIZE certificates for the Australian Maths Competition in 2008 and 2009. No prize this year [sigh] but still a HD.

I think i have mentioned before that i am doing the IB course (well it only started september, before that was pre-ib).
7 subjects 6 for one of each areas and 1 subject Theory of Knowledge (ToK)
That's why i got an nspire in the first place
at the annual awards recently i got 5 As (and for every previous term). So i got a silver academic award.
That's pretty good, but i could have got Gold.....