Oh... to have free college.... grrrrrrr

Damn Brits. Hehe.

SOME people actually get paid to go to Sixth Form (and possibly college too.)

EDIT: Don't get that confused with American college, which is apparently like English universities. Which we have to pay HORRIBLE amounts of money for. Loads of our students are jumping ship and going to Germany, in fact, since I don't think they get tuition fees there, unless I'm confused.

I get 30 pounds a week for going to 6th form, muhaha. Crappy exams in January, I suck at revising as well.

Yeah, I know. It wouldn't have been so bad if they didn't arbitrarily jump a week of holiday this Xmas back to the Autumn half term, when we weren't knackered enough to need it. Grumble.

And ICT isn't that hard of a subject You should have already known that Physics and Maths were gonna be hard though, I totally hate both of those subjects. So glad I don't have to do them anymore

Yeah, I actually find ICT...well, it's an easy subject, it's just...a difficult exam. I KNOW the stuff, I just can't apply it properly. And yeah, but I did pretty well at Maths and Physics at GCSE, so I made the mistake of thinking they'd be safe bets at A level. MISTAKE. >_<

Math and Physics are my best subjects, easily Never gotten below an A in them (and took Calc 2 and Physics 1+2 at 16/17 .

Wait until whether to go to uni, which uni, and what to study.

Well, I've already decided what course to study ('cause I suck at pretty much everything else), but picking WHICH is probably going to be a bother. I don't want to move out of Lincolnshire if I can help it, but all the unis here (Nottingham etc.) are prolly too hard for me to get into.

The whole AS level system is stupid. Not only do they put exams halfway through the A level course, you get them halfway through the AS level course as well.

Yeah it sucks ass, no one wants to revise at Christmas

I'll grant that there's something to be said for not revising it ALL at the end of AS though. But they could at LEAST not screw around with the holidays so I only get 13 days of friggin' Xmas break, so I have to revise like the entire time to get any good grades. (Nooot that I will of course. )

Well, when I did A levels I barely revised at all and that was back when A levels were "harder".

Let me tell you something - things don't change that much, things are still pretty much the same as when I went to college. Hell, they're still pretty similar to when I went to school.

Kids, if you don't revise at all you can become Gods too

Ok, I'm kidding, don't flunk your exams. One of the reasons I'm so glad that I came to live in the UK was that they had such great schools, and luckily most of my education was here.

Yeah, Lusternia's a very well written, well scripted world.

And to think, half the divine here only have a semester of junior college tucked under their belt!

Don't stab me, I didn't mean it.

Stab? Never. I think a bit of divine fire in an uncomfortable place is much more effective.

Kinky.

*adds another Divine to his ever-growing list of Divine enemies*

In fact, I do recall actually HITTING Fain the other day. How cool is that?

Plus we, y'know, spell right.

And well, yeah, but I have just a SLIGHT reason to suspect all of You are somewhat more academically adept than me, so I might have to revise to actually do anything.

You guys are just wierd.

Elementary school, middle school, high school. Optional college after public schooling.

Yay.

Hmm...

Basically yes, in the US there are three basic levels of education.

Primary - Elementary + Middle School

Secondary - High School

University/College.

The difference between a University and a College by American terminology is that a College can provide Associate, Bachelors and (sometimes) Masters degrees. A University has Doctoral programs. Often someone will go to a college, then move on to a university dependant on funds, as they do get quite expensive. Myself, I attended the University at Buffalo (on hiatus for financial reasons...temporary, thankfully) and was working towards a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematical Physics, which would have led towards me going for a Masters degree in some form of Quantum Physics (my preferred specialty) although likely at another university. Ph.D. would have followed through simple necessity in that field.

Education is absolutely required through Primary, though during Secondary (at the age of 16) it is possible to drop out. Those who do so receive no High School diploma, which is basically a necessity for the vast majority of jobs. But some are available. Some students also receive a GED, which is a General Equivilency Degree for secondary education.

You must complete secondary education to move onwards to a college or university, as none of them will accept you otherwise. These days, it is moving more and more towards at least some degree from a college being necessary for life.

yeah, basically the U.S system sucks and does not prepare you for life. whereas the other school systems atleast give you the option of pretending you'll be able to get a job in an area your interested in.

Why are all my collegeless buddies better off than my College graduate buddies?

College/University just keeps you at childhood level for a longer time.