h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I see it: a.

Anyone?

Yes please, stong, with just a little milk.

no milk in mine if you would, just a dab of honey!

One strong with a little milk,

One no milk, with honey. Here you go, enjoy.

* places and on the table along with some

How are y'all? Is your Monday anything like mine? If so, I am so sorry about that...

Actually it wasn't too bad. Why, I don't know, but it wasn't too bad. The is still *very* appreciated though.

What wasn't too bad?

Did you mean you didn't have a bad Monday? How? I want to know!!!

Mine was a lot like going to the circus:

thank you very much for the

my monday was very wierd as it was the begining of a marking period and nothing was as usual.

*sipps lightly at his *delicious* *

You and Strider are both very welcome

What is a marking period?

*sips

hmmm... it is in high school and there are 4 of them per year. there are mid term tests after the first two are done and i just finished the midterms. so the whole school is starting the new half of the year also, not just a marking period

Oh, we called them 9 wk. periods. Two were a semester. IE: two periods per semester. In what grade are you? And, if you don't mind...where are you from?

11th grade
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Well written entry.

Sounds like a nice town.

At school, we had terms (autumn, spring, summer), with holidays of about two weeks in between, at Xmas and Easter, plus the big summer one. In about the middle of each term was a week's holiday, called the 'half-term break' and so the bits between breaks were called half-terms. My guess is that we all have pretty much the same pattern of work and rest, but we each give them different names.
We got tests whenever we finished a small section, plus assessments three times a year. The problem with these is that there was no fixed period for the judging of these, and they meant little to nothing in terms of punishments or final marks, so we tended to ignore them, except for a brief flurry when we got and compared our 'Commendation and Referral grades' (C&Rs).

hhm.... ours is quite different, as i said split in 4 instead of 3
and 2 assesments
we get a total of 6 grades that go into our final
each quarter counts as one and the midterms and final each count for half

What exactly does 11th grade mean in terms of age? We get GCSEs in years 10 and 11, spanning the age range of about 15-16, and optional A-levels in years 12 and 13, age 16-18. If you're like me, you go on to University and study a single subject. The length of this is dependent on the course, but usually either 3 or 4 years. A year out before Uni. is becoming more popular, with a good 1/5 of my yeargroup taking this option.
Before GCSEs, we are not assessed at all, except 'for fun', i.e. it doesn't go into any permanent record and we don't show any of it to employers. GCSEs are assessed in terms of coursework projects set more-or-less at random, with the vast majority of the mark being decided by exams in the summer of the second year.
At A-levels, the pattern depends on the subject and examining board. Most have coursework, but some don't. Some are modular and some are based on a final exam at the end of the two years. Many have 'continuous' assessment of some sort based on practicals or classwork or something like that. Where a subject is modular, exams are taken in the summer at the end of the year or just after Christmas, depending on which is closest after the module is finished teaching.
I hope that made sense. I would just like to understand what it is that you are going through in terms of my own experience.

i am not employed
just 16 years old

and, no, it did not make sense

Maybe this will help

*We won't discuss daycare, preschool, and dayschool. They are not required and really are just babysitting.

A child starts Kindergarten at the age of five.

Each year is another grade. First through sixth is grade school, also called elementary school. Seventh, eighth, and sometimes ninth are considered junior high, also called middle school. If you are attending a four year highschool and not three then ninth grade is a highschool freshman(age 14). Our highschool started in tenth grade with the sophomores(15), eleventh grade, juniors(16), twelfth grade, seniors(17). A lot of people graduate at the age of 17 not 18, depending on what month their birthday falls.

A year for us was four 9 wk terms. Two terms being a semester. The two term grades averaged with the grade from the midterm test for the semester grade. Then each teacher had a choice if the final exam was to cover the whole year or just what was taught since the mid term. In addition to this some classes also had a project or term paper that also averaged in to form a third or fourth of the overall term grade.

Example: Tenth grade 9wk grade+ 9wk grade +midterm grade averaged together for semester grade for the first semester. 9wk grade + 9wk grade+ term paper grade Averaged together then averaged with the grade of a comprehensive final. Comprehensive: Covers the whole year.

The term papers and projects were no secret. If you were smart you would start them early as you had the whole second semester to work on them in most classes... The topics were usually assigned at the very beginning of the second semester.

very like mine
and good explanation
thank you for the compliment on my entry, i am trying to get it itno the edited guide