:-/

[labellementeuse]

Nope, I don't really wanna talk about it.

GPAs:
French 81
History 80
English 75
Physics 67
Calculus 58

... I suppose I got them all.

Anyway, good things: I TOTALLY GOT AN EXCELLENCE AND A MERIT FOR THE HISTORY ESSAYS I PWN YOU. <3

And, and, I didn't get French schol but
I GOT ENGLISH SCHOL

OMG

!!

So yeah. *thrilled*

Bad things (only one, really) I failed two calc papers. >.< I really thought I'd done better than that. So bleeyah. But, I got 13 credits for it.. kinda annoys me because it's not 14 but it's enough. And that was all I failed.

Comments

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

Oh *hugs hugs hugs* It's not that bad. Your exam marks don't show how smart you are, and I KNOW you're smaerter than me :P I haven't opened mine yet, I'm waiting til my Dad gets home so everybody's there to see me fail miserably!

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

:-/ Even marks-wise, it really isn't that bad considering that Bursary As used to be 65%. But still, it's kinda disappointing compared to, say, my fifth-form marks. (which are anyway a better indication of how one does at university... I just keep telling myself that. ;))

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

How do you know that? If that's true I've got nothing to worry about at uni then, all those appointment-only scholarships you can only get in third year are MIIIINE!!! *ehem* And was an A seriously 65%? Wait, I remember reading that on the NZQA site. Duh me.

[sennical.livejournal.com]

Yay for you! What exactly do the numbers mean? I'm trying to become culturally enhanced. :-P GPA stands for Grade Point Average, I think (it does over here), but ours only goes to 4.0.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

:-/

Well, GPA is Grade Point Average here too, but they're most easily thought of in tersm of percentages. We have four grades- Excellence, about 95-100% or percentile, Merit which covers about 90 to about 65, Achieved which is the basic pass from 45 to 65, and not achieved which is all the failing marks. It's easiest to just say the GPA because each subject is split into a lot of different areas called "Achievement Standards" and those grades are taken and have stuff done to them to produce your GPA, which is your overall mark for your whole subject.

Um, yeah, it's confusing because this new system, NCEA, it's totally off its head. :P It'll get more standard here, at least, I hope eventually.

So yeah, 100 would be all excellences. *shrug* because we don't have real percentages, or marks out of anything at all- it's jsut graded- it's kinda hard to make the direct comparision, but it's an okay one.

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

The grade averages are to do with how many credits each achiievement standard is worth and what your grades in them were.

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

More information - some achievement standards are worth more than others, so your mark in a standard worth say six credits will affect your GPA more than if it were worth two.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Oh, and a little bit more- when we used to have percantages marks, my level was considered difficult enough that an A would be 65%, which sounds like nothing, I know. But Bursary is supposed to be really difficult.

[amphibious-one.livejournal.com]

That's excellent! And English schol as well...!

Again, the NCEA is a fuckwit. Be pleased it didn't eat your life... and it's not at Uni!

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

:) Thanks.

It fully is *eyeroll* And OMG THANK GOD. We're going to get percentage marks again... *daydreams*

[amphibious-one.livejournal.com]

And... and... and... be able to compare marks!

Heaven forbid.

failed schmailed

[nzlemming.livejournal.com]

Jesu on a stick, girl!

Remember that discussion about we had about the glass being half full? Don't make me come over there and paddle your sorry ass!

Unless, of course, that's -

Nooooooooooo, don't go there! Don't GO there!!!

;-)

Re: failed schmailed

[nzlemming.livejournal.com]

BTW Congrats on surviving the NCEA with excellent marks. And, uni results have much less correlation with School C than with the inverse proportionality of alcohol consumed, parties attended and drugs abused. So be a good little genius, mm-kay?

Re: failed schmailed

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I and amphibious_one and sixth_light and megaffe and hepburn66 and a lot of other lj users around all accept your congratulations. :D THREE YEARS, ASSHOLES.

Uh, right.... :p

Re: failed schmailed

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

Stop treading on my dreams of drinking my way to first class honours and groupie-ing The Checks when they are megastars!!!! *pout*

Re: failed schmailed

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

*splutters* Do you EVER drag your mind out of the gutter??? o.O

Re: failed schmailed

[nzlemming.livejournal.com]

Excuse me, I have to use a step-ladder to get into the gutter

[drools unmentionably]

[divinecirinde.livejournal.com]

You did better than me!!! Hooray for you!

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Well, thanks. :)

[mandor700.livejournal.com]

Well I'm sure all these other posts agree with me in saying "Those marks don't suck" lol atleast my 7th form marks qwont be dissapointing compared to my 5th form marks if you get my gist.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Aw man. :-/ I'm sure you did fine.

[mandor700.livejournal.com]

Yea I did fine, I'm not fooling myself that anyone who goes to Rongotai and isn't in my class wouldnt be glad to have my marks. Psh their just marks, as long as you get enough to get into the next year of education they become largely obsolete.

[cabaiste84.livejournal.com]

Good stuff, Tui- the NCEA marking system confuses the heck out of me (coming from an old dinosaur from the old system lol), but from the looks of things, you've done great! If it's any help, I sooo know what it feels like not to do as well as you hoped- in my 7th form year, I aimed to get 400 plus points in Bursary (over 5 subjects), which would have meant at least 5 scholarships. I ended up with only 336 (which is still a decent A Bursary) and I cried for days! That's Marsden for ya though- it's not enough just to get an A Bursary, your marks have gotta be through the roof in order to be seen as anything worthwhile. Is QMC the same?
So yeah, great job, don't be so rough on yourself. I know everyone says this but it''s no reflection on what your real abilities are, and at Uni no-one's gonna care!

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

Heh, I didn't give a damn what I got for Bursary because I could go to uni on my sixth form marks. So I took sixth form film and barely tried in any classes, instead I focussed on enjoying my social equals and getting into conversations with my teachers.

And, strangely enough, it felt then like Uni feels now. I think I'm doing alright in uni too.

[cabaiste84.livejournal.com]

I could get into Uni with my sixth form marks as well (in fact, I was seriously considering skipping 7th form altogether), but back then I was a MASSIVE overachiever, and even though I knew in my heart that Bursary didn't really matter a heck of a lot, I had to get the best marks in everything otherwise I'd end up hating myself. I come from a family of overachievers and was part of an overachieving school, so that didn't help. Times have changed, that's for sure...