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The Daily Chit-Chat, Chat-Chit, Chit-Chit, Chot-Chut Choot Shoot Chute Thread

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[PokeCommunity.com] The Daily Chit-Chat, Chat-Chit, Chit-Chit, Chot-Chut Choot Shoot Chute Thread
 
Remark sounds useful for the subjective arts, and this is only available for government diploma exams, yeah? I certainly could have used it when I paid for the optional writing portion of the ACT (an aptitude test that can greatly help with receiving college financial aid when higher scores are achieved) and received a much poorer score than I had expected because I was so uninspired by the prompt. I strained to write anything on the prompt "do you believe school should begin later in the day?" but finally received perfect marks on a later ACT attempt when the prompt was "do you believe that sports are valued more highly than academics in schools?", which I could write novel-length rants on. Apparently the ACT believes that students can only have opinions on school-related issues, although this may be to remove reviewer bias if more controversial issues were to be addressed.

You don't believe in extra credit? It's meaningless if it's earned by simply doing an extra problem on a test, but, if extra credit assignments are designed well, I would like to give students the opportunity to make up for a lack of natural skill in a subject with an abundance of effort.

On the mandatory French in Canadian education, I'm never particularly thrilled by international opinion on American culture so I attempt to afford the same courtesy of keeping my mouth shut to those in other nations, but considering what I perceive to be the relationship between Quebec and Anglophone Canada, (spoilered for potential ignorance)
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I took four years of Spanish in high school, can barely remember it, like any good nerd I wish I could have learned Japanese. At my absolutely broke high school, introducing more foreign languages into the curriculum was about a hundred places on the to-do list behind securing enough funds to be able to have something other than government pizza for lunch every day. (This happened for an entire year.)
 
It's just hard I imagine, for government to really have a list of good prompts when you are never allowed to re-use a topic. Also, you have to remember that the test needs to remove cultural imbalances... if it's say "Who is faster: Superman or The Flash?" as a physics exam question (btw, the answer is The Flash, and it's proven with mathematics and physics.) well you just screwed at least most immigrant students =P

School is something everyone attending and writing the ACT can relay to equally, so that's why they always do something as uninteresting as that.

I think extra credit is undesirable in your situation because:
a) why wasn't the student with abundance effort able to do well on the "normal" assignments to begin with? what did the teacher do wrong in the first place to require a new assignment to 'make up for it'?
b) if said extra assignment is so well designed that students love it, why isn't it a mandatory normal assignment?

Basically, if it's poorly made, then it only benefits the students who are already excelling and you got mark inflation. If it's well made, why isn't it a mandatory normal assignment so everyone benefits? No matter how it turns out, either the extra credit should be made mandatory and 'normal' or it should be purged.


As for your opinion with potential ignorance, let's just say that you spoke my mind~ Why is there a NATIONAL party whose goal is to separate from the country, and only got representatives in this particular area yet they get to represent the entire country... like, what?


Japanese like a nerd: actually I consider myself a geek, and I play a lot of games from Japan, and I watch anime though not as much as I used to, but never for a second do I want or tried to learn Japanese... Always considered Otaku's Holy Land to be a place I'll love to visit with a tour, yet it's a place I'll never travel to by myself without a tour guide, and I will definitely never live there.


EDIT: anddddd mandatory XD at the end of posts!f XD
 
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Also, you have to remember that the test needs to remove cultural imbalances... if it's say "Who is faster: Superman or The Flash?" as a physics exam question (btw, the answer is The Flash, and it's proven with mathematics and physics.) well you just screwed at least most immigrant students =P
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Lyle Lanley, creator of the Spingfield Monorail would disagree with you on that point!

 
I'm not ignoring you, frosty, but my insomnia steak continues and this is the time of day that I lose all concentration due to lack of sleep. I'll have a response later if you'll be willing to thumb through all the DCC posts between now and then :p
 
Lolol I did the same thing, Luke.

'Cept that I don't blame Jake for mine.. =u=
 
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I would've agreed with all of you few years ago, but by now I realized just how much change sleep can do for you especially in school. The amount of material that naturally gets absorbed by your brain when you are in class with a good hour of sleep compare to lacking sleep and studying afterward... it's just a much more efficient usage of time to just sleep early and get everything done/comprehended the first time.

My excuse for being up all night and even now is jet lag...
 
Oh yeah, sleep is good! My roommate had an exam this morning, but instead of getting a good night's rest beforehand, he stayed up all night cramming microeconomics. When he sat the exam, he thought he did OK, up until 5 minutes before the end when he was reading through the question paper and realised that he'd missed out two questions worth about 15% of the total mark. Eeep! So, in the words of Kyle Brovlofski: I learned something today.
 
I... definitely don't get as much sleep as I need. XD;

I should now that it's summer vacation, though! I'm so excited for senior year. Smooth cruisin'. :)
 
A good night's sleep is probably worth even more than cramming provided the exam isn't pure memorization and is asking for actual understanding =P

I'm trying to make it my goal to set a good sleep schedule even now that school is over... however I keep getting dragged to stay up late on MSN by a good convo, or friends asking me to keep on gaming and "just one more, one more" XD
 
I like sleeping, but today I had to wake up early to attent a meeting with a teacher, and I felt surprisingly better than lately XD I'm more active when I wake up before 9 AM.
 
I need more than 7 hours of sleep every night to feel fine. But I usually get 6 or 5 hours... I'm just bad like that.

My friends are crazy. Yesterday one of them had been awake for 44 hours, just because when he finally thought it could be a good idea to sleep, the sun had already gone up and he thought "meh, I'll just stay up one day more" :| I get so mad at them.
 
I only need about 3 hours of sleep to function well enough, and with all the stress and medications I'm taking, that's about all I get :x
 
Just noticed that PC got new fonts. /facepalm

How do you guys like some of them? I honestly think that some are a bit weird....maybe to exotic? /shot


My friends stay up so late and they somehow have more energy than I do sometimes :/
 
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The fonts will take a little getting used to but in the end they're harmless. It only gets to be annoying when people use obnoxious colors and formatting.
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Eh, I guess. Were new fonts ever implemented like this before in PC history? Or is this the first time?

Btw, I'm lovin' your sig :)
 
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