SR VIII: Vander Got Run Over By A Reindeer!

KoS wrote: Well, that's not something I'm proud of.Especially since it ruined my chances from getting to my college of choice.

progkidjoel wrote: Epignosis wrote: progkidjoel wrote: Epignosis wrote: progkidjoel wrote: School report just arrived Can't be any worse than the abyss of confusion that is the Evolution / Creation thread. Oh, I beg to differ... Well let's hear it. How'd you do? - A in Religion - B in English - D in Maths - D in Science - B in Geography - A in History (influential people) - B in History (Superpower) - C in PE - B in French Its not terrible, but now I don't have qualifying marks to do the the science or maths courses I've applied for in Years 11 and 12, which means I have to change my entire course package

KoS wrote: See, being stupid really f**ks with your plans.

I'm insanely sick of having to actually do maths anyway - One semester in year 8 when I tried insanely hard I pulled a B, so then I got moved up to advanced, which I always get D's in. (D's in advanced are the equivalent of B's in intermediate [the next level down] at my school though.)
I'm just sick of working hard to get crappy marks in maths.

Seriously joel, I don't care if you were kicked in the head by a horse, there is no acceptable reason to pull a D in high school math. And I struggled with math as well!

My math teacher told me I was one of the few kids that really understood what we were doing in trig., that most kids only memorize formulas, definitions, etc. 

A Person wrote: progkidjoel wrote: KoS wrote: See, being stupid really f**ks with your plans. I'm insanely sick of having to actually do maths anyway - One semester in year 8 when I tried insanely hard I pulled a B, so then I got moved up to advanced, which I always get D's in. (D's in advanced are the equivalent of B's in intermediate [the next level down] at my school though.) I'm just sick of working hard to get crappy marks in maths. What math have you covered? I am inquisitive.

Semester 1, year 10:
-Quadratic equations (carrying on from year 9)
-Probability
-Consumer Arithmetix
-Number plane graphs and coordinate geography
-Similiarity

Semester 2, year 10:
-Polynomials
-Functions and Logarithms
-Advanced statistics
-Further algebra (crap like The graphs with equations y = x2 and y = 2x + 3 intersect at the points...)
-Further trigonometry (carrying on from year 9)

The exam which caused me to fail was all of those units (usually we're only tested one on semester each exam, although they did both at the end of the year this time), and about 3 pages on each within an hour and a half. The class below gets a sheet of notes, with a way easier exam

Henry Plainview wrote: Seriously joel, I don't care if you were kicked in the head by a horse, there is no acceptable reason to pull a D in high school math. And I struggled with math as well!

As I said, I'm in advanced maths, and getting a D is the same as getting a B in intermediate (the next level down).
For maths methods (the class I'm doing next year) the advanced GPA you need is 3.0, although you need a 4.5 from intermediate.
So I'm basically a B student.

Henry Plainview wrote: A Person wrote: My math teacher told me I was one of the few kids that really understood what we were doing in trig., that most kids only memorize formulas, definitions, etc.  I thought trig was fairly easy to grasp. It's all triangles. Calculus I was the same way. The rest of it, not really.   Oh joel, the graphs intersecting questions are a gift.

I know they're easy, I was just giving them as an example of that chapter of work.

Henry Plainview wrote: A Person wrote: My math teacher told me I was one of the few kids that really understood what we were doing in trig., that most kids only memorize formulas, definitions, etc.  I thought trig was fairly easy to grasp. It's all triangles. Calculus I was the same way. The rest of it, not really.

I think that most of the time math is hard because people over complicate it. They dwell on their errors and think of how they got a problem wrong, when you should be reinforcing how to do it correctly. For example, a simple question about squaring a binomial is always going to be answered incorrectly by some percentage of a class, no matter how much the teacher harps on it.  I think my instructor spends as much time talking about math classes in general as he does about math.

That reminds me, today I intended to put this phrase in my sig:

"And let us dream now the impossible dream of a math professor."

progkidjoel wrote: Henry Plainview wrote: Australia is f**ked up if getting a D is the same as getting a B in a lower level class and doesn't hurt you at all. Its just insanely unbalanced. The intermediate kids did a test on f*cking basic area which is easier than most of the class work we do.

Here's a tip, don't move to NZ and take high school subjects. It doesn't mean sh*t, and it is either stupidly easy or pointlessly hard or biased.

Oh, and Joel, forget maths, unless you want to do engineering or some stuff like that at uni.