worryingly jolly batman

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!

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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.

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:-/ 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. ;))

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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!

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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.

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:-/

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.

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:) Thanks.

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

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Well, everyone Says So. But also, I think studies have shwon that university marks have a much, much higer correlation to your school C than your Bursary, although we've yet to see how this will pan out under NCEA.

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amphibious-one.livejournal.com

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

Heaven forbid.

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

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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!!!

;-)

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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.

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:O *marvels*

You know what I hate most about life? I hate the way some subjects will never be comparable. Like Calculus, okay, you could never compare Calculus marks with Stats marks because Calculus is just so much harder- not that I've taken Stats myself, but I know a lot of people have. (Of course, this calc-is-hard thing is working really well for me right now, but you know.) Or, say, the way an excellence in Visual Arts represents SO MUCH MROE WORK than an Excellence in French.

I don't know. :p

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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?

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

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Heaven forbid we die of disappointment for getting 4% less than a friend!!! Eah, I guess Nanny State reckons 18 is old enough to grow up and get over it ;)

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

[drools unmentionably]

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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

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*giggles* Okay, it's sad how much I and Meg used to do that. i suppose I'll end up doing it with Lucy, except I don't think my ego could take it.

It's not fair. How come she gets to be both brilliant AND hardworking??

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*snort* I'd believe it.
And trust me that is NOT something to be proud about. I'm a minor, here!

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

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Sounds like my Mum... by the way she used to tell me off for getting 97% in French. WTF?

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It all depends on how much creativity one puts into it.

As to minor status, m'lud, the prosecution would like to refer to the postings of 27th December 2004 (http://www.livejournal.com/users/labellementeuse/68005.html) and 30th December 2004 (http://www.livejournal.com/users/labellementeuse/69557.html), especially the comments referring to the defendent's taste for "slash" fiction. ... No, m'lud, I am relaibly informed that I can't understand "slash" fiction either, due to my possession of a willy, apparently. I fear, m'lud, that the defendent has forgotten momentarily (due to the presence of a 'dropkick' and the reception of rather good exam results) that the court can read her back journal and judge for themselves her claim to "minor status".

Quite right, m'lud and well said.

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