Very symbolic.

nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:Wow, pretty good level for first year university physics. But what else can one expect from Oxford? How on earth did you manage to get into, Sent?

By staying calm in the interviews and passing my exams.

Stay in school, kids.

(By passing he means getting three or four A grades. [And now its probably going to be at least one A*])

Oxford have said they won't make offers dependent on A* grades for a couple of years at least to see how the system works. Cambridge are asking for an A* now though.

(It was three A grades at A level. Plus two largely irrelevant As at AS level..)

Sentynel wrote:Oxford have said they won't make offers dependent on A* grades for a couple of years at least to see how the system works. Cambridge are asking for an A* now though.

(It was three A grades at A level. Plus two largely irrelevant As at AS level..)

Cool! (though I've never understood what an A grade actually means. Can't you convert it into marks or percentage?)

To Apollo/Honorius-
Do you'll prefer socialism or capitalism? Since you'll are Americans, I have little doubt. But there was a lot of protests against capitalism in the G20 meet...

nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:Cool! (though I've never understood what an A grade actually means. Can't you convert it into marks or percentage?)

Ostensibly an A grade is 80% or higher, and the recently introduced A* is 90% or higher. There's all sorts of crazy normalisation that goes on, though, and it's 80% on the normalised mark, not on the mark you actually get.

nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:To Apollo/Honorius-
Do you'll prefer socialism or capitalism? Since you'll are Americans, I have little doubt. But there was a lot of protests against capitalism in the G20 meet...

Polite grammatical correction: "You'll" is a contraction for "you will."

Addressing the question, I personally "prefer" capitalism.

Socialism doesn't necessarily eliminate a free market economy.

Apollo wrote:Polite grammatical correction: "You'll" is a contraction for "you will."

I believe she meant "y'all".

Sentynel wrote:

nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:Cool! (though I've never understood what an A grade actually means. Can't you convert it into marks or percentage?)

Ostensibly an A grade is 80% or higher, and the recently introduced A* is 90% or higher. There's all sorts of crazy normalisation that goes on, though, and it's 80% on the normalised mark, not on the mark you actually get.

They introduced that over there?! o.O

We've had A*s for GCSEs for ages, but they added it for A levels this year.

Or even yawl, which is a Slanginese for y'all which is a contraction for you all which is slang for all of you.

Yawl is a lazy spelling of Ya'll, a contraction of 'You all.'
Makes sense, Spanish has Ustedes for the same purpose.

Sentynel wrote:

Apollo wrote:Polite grammatical correction: "You'll" is a contraction for "you will."

I believe she meant "y'all".

Yes, that's what I meant. I can't believe I still make mistakes in basic stuffs :'(

Y'all have normalization of marks too? Great, I don't feel so bad now. I thought normalization & quotas (do y'all have quotas?) were crazy things only Indian students had to contend with...

I prefer socialism. I suppose it's need varies from country to country. But still, capitalism is what lead to this recession.

nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:Y'all have normalization of marks too? Great, I don't feel so bad now. I thought normalization & quotas (do y'all have quotas?) were crazy things only Indian students had to contend with...

Yup. Makes the government's claims of "students are getting smarter!" rather suspect when they can set the normalisation to provide whatever results they want..

Lies! "Ya'll" can't be correct grammar!

...Can it?

I'm pretty sure it can. Ask the Southern Americans.

Again, not correct grammar. =P

"Y'all" is just short for "you all". It's no less grammatically correct than using, say, "isn't" as a contraction of "is not".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y'all

SEVEN RECOGNIZED PROPERTIES.