My grade 12 courses: Chemistry 30 (94%), Biology 30 (99%), Physics 30 (98%), Math 30 (98%), Math 31 (~94%), English 30 (88%), Social Studies 30 (~96%), Instrumental Music 30 (99%).
I tried so hard to get 100% in math. I went in to the final with a 99, but a missed a couple questions and my grade wound up going down. I did get 100% on the physics final though, which gave me a better physics grade than the friend who'd graduated the previous year (with 100% in math) and is currently working on a PhD in theoretical physics. This despite having an incompetent physics teacher who scored 78% on one of his own tests. English was always my weak point (apart from Phys. Ed.). I had excellent technical skills (the teacher once congratulated me in front of the class for having only a single minor technical error in a 12-page essay), but I've never been good at creative writing or at picking out symbolism and such. Biology was a joke: nothing but memorization, and not all that much of that. I don't remember much of Chemistry or Social Studies, other than that I wrote a letter to the premier and a couple other MLAs, satirizing the state of funding to my school, which was quoted in the legislature. Band was fun, although the CD that we made sucked. Math 31 (calculus) wasn't much fun, since I had to do it by correspondance. I'm sure I could have managed a better grade if I had a real teacher. |
