Death of boy, 11, who fell 17 floors after failing his exams for the first time ruled a suicide
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[QUOTE=soulharvester;51246429]Doesn't help that so much of our testing is basically true/false questions.
I mean, multiple choice is technically more than 2 options, but usually only one or two are even close to reasonable answers that even in math you could sometimes just guesstimate which answer was correct without even doing any of the math.
I understand that they do multiple question because it's super fast to grade it but it's also really easy to pass it with like a day or less of preparation on the subject and then just forget it after. It's terrible for gauging what skills and information you've actually acquired.
Though the most annoying was getting vague questions which depending on how you interpret the question could result in multiple answers or the answer you might select might be mostly true but wrong due to a technicality.[/QUOTE]
I don't know what its called, but here they usually do it as followed
5 answers, one gives full grades, one gives no grades and 3 subtract double grades.
So if you guess you on average lose grades, and if you know somewhat what its about you get no grades.
Don't hit your kids, guys.
[QUOTE=Code3Response;51246909]Getting below a 70 would fail you anyway in a class at any of public universities in my state. You'd get no credit for the class and basically wasted 16 weeks of your life and money.[/QUOTE]
Is that system widespread? At my university, the passing threshold for every course I've studied over the past four years was always 50%. Some people even reckon that the course coordinators bump people up to 50%, a pass, if they get a mark in the high 40s.
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[QUOTE=Shakma;51251989]I can't count how many times i failed exams before passing them (sometimes i just pass barely). I mean cmon hes just in middle school, it shouldn't matter that mush, am studing at a university on the other hand...[/QUOTE]
Performance at school is much, much more-serious in Asian cultures.
[QUOTE=BF;51252604]Is that system widespread? At my university, the passing threshold for every course I've studied over the past four years was always 50%. Some people even reckon that the course coordinators bump people up to 50%, a pass, if they get a mark in the high 40s.
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Performance at school is much, much more-serious in Asian cultures.[/QUOTE]
Honestly if you get 50% in India, for most parents you might as well have failed. Everybody wants you to get in the high 80s at least (btw this won't get you any of the best college courses without paying cash money) or higher. The best college courses in STEM are open only to the guys with 98-100% average in 12th grade school finals. Recently they changed things here to make it an average between the results in your last three years at school (10th-12th grade) putting an even bigger burden on the student. Mind you, this is not yet mainstream in selection processes as they still focus on your 12th grade results, but it will be, sooner or later.
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[QUOTE=Code3Response;51246909]Getting below a 70 would fail you anyway in a class at any of public universities in my state. You'd get no credit for the class and basically wasted 16 weeks of your life and money.[/QUOTE]
That's odd, I thought a failing grade in most colleges was under 60. I suppose it differs depending on where you're studying.
[QUOTE] "I only ask for 70 marks, I don't expect you to get 80 marks."[/QUOTE]
So her son is dead and she's still talking about marks? That's pure insanity over there.
I have experienced this with a Japanese family who now live in the Netherlands, everyone in my class is just playing games and does jackshit while the kid needs to work his ass off to get a 8 or higher for every test. He is "expected" to work for a large company since his uncle works for the board but he rather wants to start something of his own.
[QUOTE=darth-veger;51252762]I have experienced this with a Japanese family who now live in the Netherlands, everyone in my class is just playing games and does jackshit while the kid needs to work his ass off to get a 8 or higher for every test. He is "expected" to work for a large company since his uncle works for the board but he rather wants to start something of his own.[/QUOTE]
Heres what you do to that
You give your parents the finger and move out... is what i did at 16 best decision of my life.
[QUOTE=Blizzerd;51252769]Heres what you do to that
You give your parents the finger and move out... is what i did at 16 best decision of my life.[/QUOTE]
The shitty part is that his parents fund everything for him, his school, phone, subscriptions and everything is paid for by them and he has a part time job at a retailer that gives him the bare minimum salary of a 21 year old so in he got very little funds himself.
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;51252803]And throw in some rarely used acronyms.[/QUOTE]
And here's a question so rife with spelling and grammatical errors that you don't actually know what it's asking! Spell check? This is an IT test, no need for that.
Big part of the reason I failed my CCNA a couple months ago is because I seriously couldn't comprehend what they were asking of me in a simulation due to all the errors.
[QUOTE=Blizzerd;51252769]Heres what you do to that
You give your parents the finger and move out... is what i did at 16 best decision of my life.[/QUOTE]
moving out at 16 damn. Not everyone can do it.. I don't think you can even legally pay for apartment and work at age 17 and less. How did you pull it out?
[QUOTE=Fourier;51254350]moving out at 16 damn. Not everyone can do it.. I don't think you can even legally pay for apartment and work at age 17 and less. How did you pull it out?[/QUOTE]
At least in the US (Which IIRC Blizzerd was here, not sure if that's when he moved out) you can become an emancipated minor in many states which gives you many legal rights of an adult.
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Also you guys really can't work at under 17?
I forgot what is the exact deal here in Slovenia, but until you are 18 you can work only some shitty part time jobs. And they must not be dangerous and employer who could hire you, needs to do so much paperwork that no-one bothers with that. Basically, no-one will hire you full time/seriously because you are just a little sunshine kid :downs:. So you can't get good money through proper job when you are minor. (but there are lots of jobs on black market so figure what lots of people did)
[QUOTE=MrBacon;51245816]We have exams to finish primary here in Estonia too, I'm pretty sure it's very common. Do you not have it in Canada?[/QUOTE]
It's not that useful, here the student union is fighting against revalidas, which are exams you have to pass in order to get secondary and pre-university (16-18) education, it does not matter what qualification you have in your subjects, [I]if you don't pass those exams you don't get the title[/I], it's retarded.
This is from a new law called LOMCE though, so we still have a year or two to get rid of it
We also have general level exams which are relatively easy, but they don't really matter, they are just to get statistics.
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;51252620]Honestly if you get 50% in India, for most parents you might as well have failed. Everybody wants you to get in the high 80s at least (btw this won't get you any of the best college courses without paying cash money) or higher. The best college courses in STEM are open only to the guys with 98-100% average in 12th grade school finals. Recently they changed things here to make it an average between the results in your last three years at school (10th-12th grade) putting an even bigger burden on the student. Mind you, this is not yet mainstream in selection processes as they still focus on your 12th grade results, but it will be, sooner or later.
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That's odd, I thought a failing grade in most colleges was under 60. I suppose it differs depending on where you're studying.[/QUOTE]
In my university it was under 60. But in high school it was under 70. There's no consistent system.
Education doesn't guarantee success.
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