Sentynel wrote:

Mwamba wrote:If friggin' Oxford allows 40 it should be good enough for us!

Don't make me send you examples of my exam papers. The average mark is about 55-60.

Mwamba, both Indian schools and Oxford are flipping hard beyond language comprehension.

So no 90% geniuses? =P

I went by your date of birth(1992). PCM, PCB or PCMB?
Edit- Nero, you do get a lot of people scoring above 90% in school. Heck, you get a many scoring above 95% too.

PCM, with Comp.

I'm pretty Sentynel would be one. If he isn't and still managed to get into Oxford, I'll be very angry.

Nero wrote:Mwamba, both Indian schools and Oxford are flipping hard beyond language comprehension.

So no 90% geniuses? =P

You get the odd one. There were two girls about ten years ago who achieved a combined average of 98.4% across all their exams. These are people so mind-bogglingly smart, even the tutors consider them irritatingly clever.
Generally though, you're not going to get more than a handful of people a year getting over 90% (we have 200 people per year).

I've got a couple of 90s, but university's much harder. *is Captain Obvious*

Post wrote:You have useless subjects like Arts, Religion and Film Studies, we don't.

Um, how exactly are those useless classes. It's not as if anyone's going to stop buying art anytime soon, and advertising is a major industry. And like it or not religion is still a major part of society for the moment (though my WR teacher is useless. And Film Studies... okay, you're probably right there (though broadcasting's a useful course).

Post wrote:Hmmm, I've found that most ignorance is willful. Stupidity = Lazyness.

Oh, definitely.

Apollo wrote:Or maybe it's the fact that the Bush Admin. is gone.

I'm thinking that's it. :P

You either got Artistic talent or you don't. And Religion... how many teenagers want to become theologians?

Just because we don't happen to know teenagers who are interested in theology, doesn't necessarily mean such people don't exist. Some could find the concept of religion & God intriguing. I sometimes do.

That's because Hindu mythology is so damn trippy.

Even so, Religion should be an optional subject at the very most.

I wasn't talking about Hindu mythology. I was talking about the universe, in general.
Religion is compulsory for y'all? I thought the universities there were autonomous. Can't you choose any subject you want(even if they are of weird combinations)?

Post wrote:You either got Artistic talent or you don't. And Religion... how many teenagers want to become theologians?

Yeah, but you still need to practise. And a teacher can help you [or force you...) to learn different techniques. And religion effects the way a lot of people think, it's good to know about if you want to get into politics or something (though yeah, don't know many teens who are).

Post wrote:Even so, Religion should be an optional subject at the very most.

Oh, so you're talking about them being required? Never mind then.

Well I go to a Catholic school so it serves as letting us 'getting to know our faith.' It's a class where they also hurt our grade if we don't do our volunteer work.

But yes. Stupid.

"What is virtue?
A. Mr. <insert teacher's name> handing out cookies to all his students
B. Boring but wrong answer.
C. Correct answer (easily identifiable because it has longest, best thought out answer)
D. Another answer as absurd as choice A"

Mwamba wrote:"What is virtue?
A. Mr. <insert teacher's name> handing out cookies to all his students
B. Boring but wrong answer.
C. Correct answer (easily identifiable because it has longest, best thought out answer)
D. Another answer as absurd as choice A"

That sounds like the sort of crap we get in General friggin' Studies ><

"How far do you agree with the phrase 'knowledge is power'? - 30 marks"

Unfortunately, that's 75% of my World Religions class. I was asked on an test "Which 3 of the the ten commandments do you most agree with and why?" For one of them I put "Thou shalt not kill" and was so tempted to write beside it "Anyone with half a brain can think of 5 reasons not to kill someone, idiot." I don't know why we need to give our opinion on everything. (figure this is to disguise the fact that the teacher doesn't know what she's doing) I wish we could have the regular teacher for the course, who lets us watch the Matrix.

Rant over now. :P

Reading The Ladies of Grace Adieu - Susanna Clarke

David Cat wrote:"How far do you agree with the phrase 'knowledge is power'? - 30 marks"

If knowledge is power
Given power is the rate of transfer of energy
--> stored knowledge generates energy
--> a sufficiently large store of knowledge will exhibit strange gravitational effects, as a result of e=γmc²
--> libraries are inherently unstable
There are no examples of spontaneous implosion of libraries
--> proposition is false
QED, gimme me 30 marks.

Sentynel wrote:

David Cat wrote:"How far do you agree with the phrase 'knowledge is power'? - 30 marks"

If knowledge is power
Given power is the rate of transfer of energy
--> stored knowledge generates energy
--> a sufficiently large store of knowledge will exhibit strange gravitational effects, as a result of e=γmc²
--> libraries are inherently unstable
There are no examples of spontaneous implosion of libraries
--> proposition is false
QED, gimme me 30 marks.

I wish I'd thought to write that in the exam >>
But nooooo, I was, as usual, thinking firmly inside the proverbial box =p

David Cat wrote:I wish I'd thought to write that in the exam >>
But nooooo, I was, as usual, thinking firmly inside the proverbial box =p

"I refuse to think outside the box until I see some evidence of thinking going on inside the box."

I wonder how many marks I'd actually have gotten for that?

Sentynel wrote:

David Cat wrote:"How far do you agree with the phrase 'knowledge is power'? - 30 marks"

If knowledge is power
Given power is the rate of transfer of energy
--> stored knowledge generates energy
--> a sufficiently large store of knowledge will exhibit strange gravitational effects, as a result of e=γmc²
--> libraries are inherently unstable
There are no examples of spontaneous implosion of libraries
--> proposition is false
QED, gimme me 30 marks.

If you put that on my test, my teacher probably would either

1) Die from laughter

2) Raise eyebrow

3) Give me an extra 10 marks. >>

I don't see how it isn't an acceptable answer, the question's very vague.

I think they'd argue there's not 30 marks worth of answer there. Boring non-mathematical types; short proofs are better than long ones..

Perhaps you can make a kind footnote reminding them (with an orthodox proverb answer style) that it's not the size that matters--it's what you do with it.