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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: brushwud who wrote (438590)12/5/2008 5:55:49 PM
From: Joe NYC  Read Replies (2) of 1573989
 
brushwud,

That's hard for me to believe. You mean if you ask a bus driver why the bus jerks when it stops, she'll remind you about the third derivative of displacement with respect to time?

They have trade type schools for people who don't have what it takes to make it in high schools. There is a high school graduation exam. In some countries it is called matriculation. Students are tested on all of the high school material they have learned. In math, it includes US level Calculus material, and US college level Physics material in some schools, foreign language and some elective material depending on school.

It is an exam, that people have nightmares for the rest of their lives. I still do. I think it was the hardest exam of my life. It spans several days. You have a written exam, and later oral exam. In the oral exam, you stand in front a commission of several people, draw a question, and then you talk. Very intimidating experience. Your 4 years of work in high school mean nothing. All that counts is the grade from this final exam.

US College was a cakewalk after that.

I was speaking to a guy from Senegal the other day, and they have the same thing in thier high schools over there (French education). He also has nightmares about it.

Joe
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