Comments on: Old School History http://iangrey.org/2007/12/12/old-school-history/ A riotous colour of life's rich tapestry Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:15:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Shades http://iangrey.org/2007/12/12/old-school-history/#comment-1787 Shades Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:05:19 +0000 http://iangrey.org/2007/12/12/old-school-history/#comment-1787 I remember when we were able to supposedly choose what subjects we wished to do in the fourth year leading on to "O" Levels at the end of 5th Year- the reality was that you could only do stuff that fitted in with the timetable. I couldn't do English Lit and sciences, for example, but had to do Biology and Art. I remember when we were able to supposedly choose what subjects we wished to do in the fourth year leading on to “O” Levels at the end of 5th Year- the reality was that you could only do stuff that fitted in with the timetable. I couldn’t do English Lit and sciences, for example, but had to do Biology and Art.

]]> By: jmb http://iangrey.org/2007/12/12/old-school-history/#comment-1786 jmb Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:46:08 +0000 http://iangrey.org/2007/12/12/old-school-history/#comment-1786 My goodness that was really a complicated system, but a really large school obviously. I went to an all girls' school that had a competitive entry system and the first year was A,B,C,D,E, and based on primary. I was in 1D and all the kids from the special advanced classes were in A. I was bound and determined to get higher and was in 2A and the A stream from second year on. It was so weird because you could only do German if you were in the A stream, everyone did French and Latin, but to do German you had to give up History. Then only the higher grades, A, B C did Chemistry and Physics but the lower ones did Biology which you could not as well as Chem and Physics. But we did everything more in depth then so now they do a smattering of everything poorly. My goodness that was really a complicated system, but a really large school obviously.

I went to an all girls’ school that had a competitive entry system and the first year was A,B,C,D,E, and based on primary. I was in 1D and all the kids from the special advanced classes were in A. I was bound and determined to get higher and was in 2A and the A stream from second year on. It was so weird because you could only do German if you were in the A stream, everyone did French and Latin, but to do German you had to give up History. Then only the higher grades, A, B C did Chemistry and Physics but the lower ones did Biology which you could not as well as Chem and Physics. But we did everything more in depth then so now they do a smattering of everything poorly.

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