How does school work in your country?

[meticadpa]

]Who what when where is that?

Basically, something that helps you remember things more easily. Someone else posted a commonly used example SOH CAH TOA for trig. (SOH = Sin = Opposite/Hypotenuse, etc.)

I use one for the bones in the wrist: scared lovers try positions that they can't handle. Your mind will remember weird little rhymes like these a lot more easily than it'll remember the raw facts.

I used one in standard grade chemistry to remember the products of fractional distillation and their order. I can't remember what it is though.

 

[Kermi]

I rarely did homework and studied even less frequently, and my scores on my final exams reflected that. I did poorly, while friends who applied themselves did well.

If I could go back 12 years and give myself a stern talking to, I would. I'm not doing badly or anything career-wise, but I'd liked to have done better.

 

[Zaik]

School around here(Tennessee) is a bad joke.

Elementary school was fine for the most part, middle school was less relevant to anything I would ever need, but still useful. High school was about one year worth of relevant education spaced out through four years of irrelevant bullshit.

I never had to study, with the exception of Spanish 1, which was much harder than Spanish 2 because the Spanish 1 teacher actually expected us to learn something. She was fired at the end of the year for basically nothing and replaced by someone who was deported at the end of the next year, lol. I got to Spanish 2 and already knew more than we were taught the whole semester. Some people had to study, but some people were also dumb as bricks.

 

[Bugerion]

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Whoa, another South Australian? Hi. I could probably walk to your place from where I am, quite literally.

Pretty much what he said. It sums up education in Australia nicely, although other states have different variants of the high school diploma (Western Australia has WACE, etc).

I went to a rigorously competitive, ludicrously expensive private school. I regret nothing. The quality of my education there far surpassed what I remember from public school (although public education here is still leagues ahead of America), but that was also in part due to being an IB school.

Answering your question, public school and my non-IB years of high school had tolerable homework times. The International Baccelaureate is unforgiving, though: find the IB forums on the net and behold people from all over the world complaining about 6 or more hours of homework a night (you get nightly homework from every subject, and they ask you to devote about an hour a night per subject).

I'm at a law school now, entering second year. It's 80% homework and 20% school time (I only spend five hours a week at university, but have about 10 - 15 hours worth of reading and writing material for that week).

IDK how you gathered I live in Australia but you are wrong I live in southern Europe xD

 

[GeorgW]

I have about 1 hour of lessons each day, and I'm in the equivalent of High School. But my school is extremely far from the norm.