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Rhynome wrote:Quick question, what's the education system like in Canada?
Right.
Here's how it went for me:
Age 6, start kindergarden. In elementary level school you start in kindergarden, move to grade 1 and then through to grade 7.
Elemetary school in BC has English and "French Immersion" streams (because it's our second national language, not that anyone in BC speaks it).
You get one classroom, one teacher, each year, and they teach you all the subjects. Science, Math, Social Studies etc. French is taught mandatorily starting in grade 4.
In grade 8 you start high school and then you get a schedule, each class with a different teacher. And you can choose other lanuages than French.
In grade 11, Science becomes Biology, Physics or Chemistry, and Social Studies becomes History or Geography.
Graduation requirements from Grade 12 in BC are as follows:
Grade 11 level of a language (optional, only needed to get into certain universities)
Grade 11 level Math.
Grade 12 level English.
and three Provincially Examinable subjects, such as grade 12 level Physics, Biology, Chemistry, History, Geography etc.
and a certain number of various credits in electives, dependant on your high school, and the subjects they offer.
I hope that answered it.
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About the same as in Ontario and New-Brunswick. Except that high school starts in grade 9.
Can't tell you exactly the qualifications to get your grade 12 diploma, since the education system changed since I was there.
But it's mostly like in BC for most provinces except for the province of Quebec, where they graduate in grade 11, and then can go to college, or if they want to attend university, they need 2 years in cégep (you can call it pre-university courses.)
Can't tell you exactly the qualifications to get your grade 12 diploma, since the education system changed since I was there.
But it's mostly like in BC for most provinces except for the province of Quebec, where they graduate in grade 11, and then can go to college, or if they want to attend university, they need 2 years in cégep (you can call it pre-university courses.)
except now they have changed all the grad requirements, so we have to take provintial exams in grade 10, 11 and 12 and do a portfolio.
This meens i have 3 provintals this year, 2 of which are in this semester (oh so scary!)
this is in B.C by the way
and they also made it so that high school starts in grade 9 (oh those silly little grade nines being a whol one year younger)
This meens i have 3 provintals this year, 2 of which are in this semester (oh so scary!)
this is in B.C by the way
and they also made it so that high school starts in grade 9 (oh those silly little grade nines being a whol one year younger)
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In Ontario, when I was a young'un, we had grade 13. We called it "OAC", which stood for "Ontarians Are Smarter". You needed grade 13 for University (which deals with academic subjects, and trains you for research, development, theory, etc), but only grade 12 for College (which is more for trades--business management, cooking, network admin junk, etc).
So I graduated and left at grade 12, took a year of college, decided I wanted to go to University for English, and so returned to high school for half a year to get my OACs.
Yeah, that's right. I f'n went back. I was only a year older than the smart kids, and still a year or two younger than the stupid kids, so it wasn't that big a deal in retrospect. But I still went to secondary after post-secondary, which is very, very strange.
I also went to French Immersion. Throughout public school, I had one French teacher for every subject except for English (which we didn't even get 'til grade 4), Music, Phys Ed (if we were lucky--they seemed to pick names out of a hat over who taught our phys ed class) and Shop/Home Ec. (And we didn't get Music, Shop, or Home Ec until grade 8.) All the rest was taught in French.
So, I learned math in a language where they use commas instead of decimals and spaces instead of commas.
Which is a very fitting excuse for being mathematically retarded that I don't use nearly often enough.
So I graduated and left at grade 12, took a year of college, decided I wanted to go to University for English, and so returned to high school for half a year to get my OACs.
Yeah, that's right. I f'n went back. I was only a year older than the smart kids, and still a year or two younger than the stupid kids, so it wasn't that big a deal in retrospect. But I still went to secondary after post-secondary, which is very, very strange.
I also went to French Immersion. Throughout public school, I had one French teacher for every subject except for English (which we didn't even get 'til grade 4), Music, Phys Ed (if we were lucky--they seemed to pick names out of a hat over who taught our phys ed class) and Shop/Home Ec. (And we didn't get Music, Shop, or Home Ec until grade 8.) All the rest was taught in French.
So, I learned math in a language where they use commas instead of decimals and spaces instead of commas.
Which is a very fitting excuse for being mathematically retarded that I don't use nearly often enough.
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Johnny_Lunchbox wrote:In Ontario, when I was a young'un, we had grade 13. We called it "OAC", which stood for "Ontarians Are Smarter". You needed grade 13 for University (which deals with academic subjects, and trains you for research, development, theory, etc), but only grade 12 for College (which is more for trades--business management, cooking, network admin junk, etc).
Yep I was in the last year they had OACs. I have to say that it really helped in Moncton University, two of my math classes were basically my calculus and algebra classes in high school.
Johnny_Lunchbox wrote:So, I learned math in a language where they use commas instead of decimals and spaces instead of commas.
Like that was as hard as French syntax and grammar! (which you prolly don't remember by now anyway)
Things that I have learned in this thread:
- It's okay to acknowledge that Kate is "a looker."
- "Squiddy" is Kate. Not Sean Howard.
- Canadian public education is organized rather similarly to US public education, the largest notable difference being optional French for US children.
- In Ontario, it is okay to use the letter C in an acronym to stand for a word that starts with S.
These are all things that I have learned.
Also - Kate and Ash, although attractive, also both look like the kinds of girls that would kick your ass for making a pass at them.
- It's okay to acknowledge that Kate is "a looker."
- "Squiddy" is Kate. Not Sean Howard.
- Canadian public education is organized rather similarly to US public education, the largest notable difference being optional French for US children.
- In Ontario, it is okay to use the letter C in an acronym to stand for a word that starts with S.
These are all things that I have learned.
Also - Kate and Ash, although attractive, also both look like the kinds of girls that would kick your ass for making a pass at them.
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Under13 wrote:Things that I have learned in this thread:
- In Ontario, it is okay to use the letter C in an acronym to stand for a word that starts with S.
Only if you're really, really smart, though.
Which nobody is anymore (well, nobody younger than frog, anyways), because we don't have OACs anymore.
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