You U.S. people get to take all seperate courses and shit, like, you can take trig, algebra, conics, whatever. Here in my small school in Canada you get Essentials of Math (Dumb Math), Applications of Math (Mid-range) and Principals of Math (academic). I'm in PMA12 and it's such a bitch, probably 1/2 the class is already failing and it's because B.C. jams so much shit into it that everything throughout the year is rushed to shit.
We'll start learning a new unit a week before our test so by the time our test rolls around our minds are full of the new stuff.
Not to mention this is the only thing that makes the 4-day school week shitty. Rather than getting 6 math classes over the week we only get 5 so we will start a whole new thing on the second part of a double block.
Also, the teachers here think math is a big competition, seriously, everything is 'preparing us for the provincial exam'. Last year I got 50% in math and the provincial was so bloody easy it brought my final mark up 7%. That means I got like 80% on the final.
My friends are really smart, straight As kinda thing, 'Principals List', but when it comes to math, they're just as screwed as I am.
Oh, and I already know I can get into Univ with my courses, cause all I need is a 64% average in all classes (I have like 80% avg), and having French 11 and Principals of Math 11 can get me into BCIT if I wanna go there.
The thing that blows tho is that if I fail math this semester I'll have to drop Bio12 next and that was what I was thinking of doing with my life.
FUCK!
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