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I didn't understand the original one, so I just grabbed out a whole lot of them :D I'll work with all of them for a while until I find one I like. That's just for physics though, the others I only have one, because they're good and I like them...

Haha, that's almost exactly what happened to me, except it should be:

I participated in cross country this year. I walked from start to finish, reading a book :D

I have 3 different textbooks now, two from the library and one from a friend. They are all heaps better and all seem to be for the VCE :D

Haha, it was :D

School was good, and I actually went to badminton practice today, which was good as I hadn't been in about two months :D And I finished experimenting for biology :D

*sigh* I guess I'm outnumbered then :(

Well, getting A+'s... They give you lots of A+'s in all different categories...and don't give them lightly. Personally I think that school has too many numbers, but even more so in NSW...UAIs and marks and ranks and all that...

Meh, I like my letter grades :) Our school never tells us our ranks, although sometimes a teacher lets it slip to a student that they topped the grade, etc. Or you work it out eg by getting full marks. How do you know your name, do they post them up or something? Or tell you?

I used to hate chemistry at the start of the year, then I got my marks back and love it...not sure if this is because I loved the assignment we did or because of the marks...but either way, it's my favourite subject (tied with maths)

My maths C teacher is like that :) But not my physics teacher :(

Textbooks are so important, the one we use at school is absolutely terrible and I don't understand it one bit, and also it is about 2 inches thick and I hate it :(

lol

Sorry :) The QCE is not crazy, just new and I don't know all that much about it - but there aren't any final state exams (like HSC exams) so it's all internal assessment, but most of the internal assessment is done by letter grades now, excepting simple things like the multiple choice...

But surely you should get more marks if you have a beautiful, elegant proof than if you have random stuff all over the page, but the right answer in the end? elegant not meaning neat, just well explained and logical, and not overly complicated

Not in the QCE :D So get the teachers to mark harder. Also if I get an A in English, I want to improve, so I can get an A+ :) My teachers almost never give out A+s especially in the senior years...

But isn't English kind of subjective? How could you get 17/20 for an essay or something? How do you get marks? Sorry, I'm confused...

Well in my school/Queensland (new syllabus), they mark based on criteria (more talking sciences here) and they mark really hard, like most people get C's...so when you get A's (like me :D) then you really did well...and also they have A+, A- etc. In maths...well they have to have separate...

Do you get *all* your marks back as numbers? I mean like 45/50, etc...because we are not allowed to get any marks back as numbers, everything has to be letter grades...so it's weird seeing all the numbers...:D Don't know why I created this thread. Oh well. I prefer letter grades anyway, what...

Haha, I do that too :rolleyes: