Should we have to pass a highschool exit exam?

[emmy]

haha I remember those DUMB tests! I love the first week in May when I was a freshman! I would show up late for school all week!

Really?  They let you do that?  They made us have regular classes for like 3 hours at a time and we couldnt leave the room and everything, so we couldn't skip or come late.  The only people they let come in late were the seniors methinks... i'm not sure because i never did my senior year here.  Oh well.

[Dancernl]

we in NY are the only crazy ones still giving regents exams.  And they have changed the standards so now they are even harder.  When i graduated you could get a local or regents diploma, and now there's no local diploma anymore.  It's going to get to the point where they are going to have to make a super regents, lol.  But I agree with whomever said that they prepare you for college, it's true.

[tricia]

Your school sounds pretty jacked Laura.  At my school, we started with Algebra in the 8th grade.  Geometry was 9, Algebra 2 was 10, Pre-Calc was 11, Calc was 12.  

If you were behind, you might start Algebra in 10, but most kids were in it by 8 or 9.

*shrug*  I think the exam is a good idea.  Would have kept a lot of the dumbasses from my class from getting a diploma.  Alas, the Class of 2001 did not have the test.

[freshlettuce]

Personally i think you are luckier than you could ever imagine. Take a look at the subjects i have to take exams in over the next month(i am 15):

-Food Technology

Hee-hee, I bet the exam for food technology went something like this:

Make a significant improvement to English cuisine.


Just Kidding!  *kisses!!!!*

Now you can make fun of Americans for hamburgers and hormones in our cattle.   :wink:

[Laura]

in France we have exit exams in each schools, i mean school, college, high school. none at the University   (4 exams sets at University = every 3 months    )

Nerea : Basque ?? strange subject , we don't have it in France even in "Pays Basque" perhaps only as an facultative subject

If you can't pass them, you don't deserve a diploma.  Just my opinion.

i think the same

That's messed up. Why shouldn't we deserve a diploma? After going to school for how many ever years, and working our arses off in highschool for the past 4 years, and getting good grades, we shouldn't deserve a diploma for not passing a Math exam? that's like saying "even tho you went to school for 12 years, and working as hard as you could, you don't deserve anything". I'm not trying to yell at you, lol but im just kinda irritated that people think we don't deserve a diploma.

[Laura]

Your school sounds pretty jacked Laura.  At my school, we started with Algebra in the 8th grade.  Geometry was 9, Algebra 2 was 10, Pre-Calc was 11, Calc was 12.  

If you were behind, you might start Algebra in 10, but most kids were in it by 8 or 9.

*shrug*  I think the exam is a good idea.  Would have kept a lot of the dumbasses from my class from getting a diploma.  Alas, the Class of 2001 did not have the test.

Yeah Tricia, my school is pretty jacked, lol I mean the teachers are good teachers, but the system is what bugs me. We should have the system like you guys had. We might have and I just don't remember, but somehow alot of people got screwed, lol
I guess an exam would be a good idea, but they should just have separate ones like for the kids that are only in algebra, one for the geometry kids etc. I dunno

[B]

Well technically everyone is SUPPOSED to learn the same thing in high schools, so they are banking on that fact in making the test. Unfortunately sometimes it doesn't turn out that way. But everyone else is right, even if you never use it in college, it prepares you for college in the sense that some college courses assume that you have knowledge of previous things, and even if you don't you need to know it to be successful in that class.... unless you are really smart and pick up things fast  :wink:

[Katia's Lover]

in France we have exit exams in each schools, i mean school, college, high school. none at the University   (4 exams sets at University = every 3 months    )

Nerea : Basque ?? strange subject , we don't have it in France even in "Pays Basque" perhaps only as an facultative subject

If you can't pass them, you don't deserve a diploma.  Just my opinion.

i think the same

That's messed up. Why shouldn't we deserve a diploma? After going to school for how many ever years, and working our arses off in highschool for the past 4 years, and getting good grades, we shouldn't deserve a diploma for not passing a Math exam? that's like saying "even tho you went to school for 12 years, and working as hard as you could, you don't deserve anything". I'm not trying to yell at you, lol but im just kinda irritated that people think we don't desrve a diploma.

All I'm saying is this:

If it's anywhere near like it is in Georgia (where in fact we have to do four tests instead of your two), the tests are so incredibly easy that if you can't pass them YOU DO NOT DESERVE TO BE A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE.  

And welcome to the real world sweety.  I'd hate to be the bearer of bad news: BUT THE WORLD IS NOT A FAIR PLACE.  I've said it before, I'll say it again: Life's a bitch, and then you die.

Study for them, and I PROMISE you, you will pass.  Otherwise, stop your moaning.

I'm sorry if this seems a bit full of anger.  It probably is--I've been cramped in this room all day with no TV, no telephone, no nothing.  I'm bored, and I'm releasing my anger.

[Laura]

Well technically everyone is SUPPOSED to learn the same thing in high schools, so they are banking on that fact in making the test. Unfortunately sometimes it doesn't turn out that way. But everyone else is right, even if you never use it in college, it prepares you for college in the sense that some college courses assume that you have knowledge of previous things, and even if you don't you need to know it to be successful in that class.... unless you are really smart and pick up things fast  :wink:

LOL Brian howcome you are always right?  :lol:
Now I actually get what people are trying to tell me...haha

[Laura]

All I'm saying is this:

If it's anywhere near like it is in Georgia (where in fact we have to do four tests instead of your two), the tests are so incredibly easy that if you can't pass them YOU DO NOT DESERVE TO BE A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE.  

And welcome to the real world sweety.  I'd hate to be the bearer of bad news: BUT THE WORLD IS NOT A FAIR PLACE.  I've said it before, I'll say it again: Life's a bitch, and then you die.

Study for them, and I PROMISE you, you will pass.  Otherwise, stop your moaning.

I'm sorry if this seems a bit full of anger.  It probably is--I've been cramped in this room all day with no TV, no telephone, no nothing.  I'm bored, and I'm releasing my anger.

I would study for it, except how can I study for geometry & other stuff thats on there when I don't know it!? lol And it's NOT easy to some people. Your not getting that. For alot of people maybe it's easy, but some kids just don't get math, that's all I gotta say. I don't wanna keep arguing so im probably done in this thread, lol I didn't realize it was going to get this many replys...

[B]

Brian howcome you are always right?

'Cause I know how it is to go to jacked ass schools that don't teach the curriculum correctly. If nothing else, it will prepare you for college where they tell you that you need this class, this class, and that class, and then those classes are never offered... or wait, is that just MY whack college?  :roll:

But seriously, don't worry about the exam too much. Just dust up on it and you will do fine. Brainpower is a wonderful thing, like my friend says : "If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with BS", if these tests are anything like the tests we had to take, you get partial credit for trying to answer the question and showing your work

-Brian

[Laura]

Brian, you are the man, lol

Man im getting a headake from all this replying and reading, I need to lay down, lol

[B]

Ha, alright.

[rosieposy87]

Personally i think you are luckier than you could ever imagine. Take a look at the subjects i have to take exams in over the next month(i am 15):

-Food Technology

Hee-hee, I bet the exam for food technology went something like this:

Make a significant improvement to English cuisine.


Just Kidding!  *kisses!!!!*

Now you can make fun of Americans for hamburgers and hormones in our cattle.   :wink:

Lmao, you ever had fish and chips mate!? Cos if you had, you wouldn't say English food is crap. And the only reason American food is good is cos its a mix of everyone else's cultures!! lmao

For Food Tech its absoloute bollocks- did u know there is actually a word for when you defrost sth and there's water on the top!? UGH there's nothing worse than making a practical subject academic.

[Grakthis]

Ok, hold up one minute.  There is NO such thing as good ENGLISH food.  Traditional english food is very BLAND and plain.  The saxons weren't exactly into the cullinary arts.

They did the same thing as the Americans did... they imported other peoples food.  Now there is traditional Irish and scottish food... and some of it is good.  Most of it is VERY bland though.

Why do you think the route to India was so important?  One of the biggest imports was spices because there just weren't that many spices in europe.
---Andrew