<p>Course work is a part of your final grade so you have to do it. It is worth as much as 30% for some subjects. But the knowledge you gain is practical though, so i guess that’s the consolation.</p>
<p>Lucky you, we gt homework !! In my Span and french class we get comprehensions or essays to prepare for the following day. Law and Carib studies are really research assignments due like in two weeks more or less.</p>
<p>Aid is major !! That’s really one of my few reasons. I just want to know if I’ll get in. The class sizes are bigger and for my area I really need small class sizes so going to these big schools, well D is small thank God, would hold me at a disadvantage in some ways.</p>
<p>Well we got homework… but some teachers didn’t really mind if you didn’t do it as long as you showed that you were still able to do well in the tests after each section.</p>
<p>I think course work is great, but it didn’t suit me as I usually have so much else going on too! </p>
<p>I just finished my A Levels (we sit January to November) - did Maths, physics, chemistry and further maths as the 2 year full A Level, and english language and french as AS (the single year course).
Could have almost done the IB if I could do literature and if I had a social science xP (number of subjects though is there )</p>
<p>My classes are kinda small so it’s noticeable when you don’t do homework. Plus, teachers use the grades on our reports.</p>
<p>Kind of a stupid question, but where is Mauritius ? nearer to England or to Africa on the map? And do a lot of people from your school apply for schools in the US ?</p>
<p>@sunny. Yes, I applied right before the deadline. You should’ve applied still. You would have sent in your part so maybe they would’ve accepted the counsellor rec after the deadline.</p>
<p>@Carib
How small were your classes?
Yea, our school was weird though small classes (maybe 10 in each class depending on the subject), but the only marks taken in for reports were tests and some assignments - but they usually told us which work was going to be taken in to be marked.</p>
<p>Not a stupid question (to be honest not many people know much about it). It is Africa. If you know where the middle east is, and where Madagascar is- we are along the same sort of horizontal line as the middle of Madagascar and in vertical line with Dubai in the Middle East (roughly). It is a very small island (longest part is about 80km~48Miles).
I actually finished my A Levels in South Africa - my school send a few to the US, this year I think we have about 3 or 4 from the A Level group, and about 5 maybe from the South African Matric group.</p>
<p>@ Raith South African Matric group ? Sounds interesting. And by sending you to the US do you mean they matriculate students who go to US schools or the pay your tuition ?</p>
<p>Spanish is 6 and French 7. Law 21 and Carib Studies about 18-20.</p>
<p>I have a uncle in Dubai but i’m geographically unaware. I think I need to look up Mauritius on a map. I really didn’t know Madagascar was a place. I thought they just made it up for the movies. It’s my dad who told me that it’s a place. Have you been there? What is it like ? What is Mauritius like ? (In terms of the atmosphere. Is it an island feel ?)</p>
<p>@sunny lol. March would definitely too late. Is your school that big? Weren’t there any more counselors ?</p>
<p>@caribgurl
We don’t have any counselors. Therefore, I asked my class teacher/form teacher (does this word exist? :D) but he’s really busy. </p>
<p>My school is not big. I am the only one who applies to a university in the US, our teachers are not familiar with recommendations and this stuff. So he would have needed some time :D</p>
<p>@Carib
Yea, South African do the South African Matric and our school was mainly the Matric, but also offered A Levels for a select few.</p>
<p>Yea Madagascar is a place really big island off the east coast of Africa. I haven’t been there, but I hear it is very under developed, quite mountainous/hilly with lots and lots of forest. Many of the people are quite poor - but so are a couple of the people here in Mauritius.
Mauritius is a tiny island, quite similar to the Caribbean. Beautiful blue oceans, we have a couple small mountains and tiny forests. A lot of the coast line is taken up by 4-5 star resorts. Its very much tropical (right now its about 36 degrees celcius… I think about 80… 90 F? not sure of the conversion though). No real winter, coldest it gets is maybe 20 degrees Celcius… maybe a little less depending on the day
Definitely an island feel - rum, beach parties, some night clubs are on the beach, surfing, kite surfing, swimming, the whole “relaxed” life style… we have a lot of Mauritians who have adopted the “Rasta” way of life. Every one knows every one else (about a population of 1.6 Million people). English is the official language, but the laws are in French, and the majority of the population prefer to speak (and are more fluent) in a language called Mauritian Creole.</p>
<p>Try google it (even if just pictures), you’ll get a similar sort of idea.</p>
<p>Our school here was very open, loose fitting shirts and pants - very relaxed lifestyle that is (rightly or wrongly) stereotypical of an island sort of life style.</p>
<p>@Sunny
I survive it by sitting in my room with my aircon all day or by swimming a lot - but even the sea and pools are very warm (26-30 degrees Celsius!!)</p>
<p>@Sunny
In South Africa it is different… very hot during the day (but dry which helps) and then at night very cold…
It is also coming to autumn and winter… so maybe some snow :D</p>
<p>@Raith - Haha! Brilliant description of life in Mauritius!!
And I sipped a a few drops of KMnO4 via the pipette!!
But other than that it was brilliant - should get ~ 29/30!! Forgot to write conc.HNO3… just wrote HNO3!!
And thanks for the link to the paper!
And even I’ll be less frequent in the coming days! Theory papers looming in front of me… Hopefully Sunny & the others can keep it going!! :D</p>
<p>@Caribgurl - Madagascar’s relatively underdeveloped, very less population & a lot of forest cover!! Even tourism there is nascent, despite the beauteous nature!
Actually, I was reading somewhere that it was only the native tribal population that lived there until recently!
Use Google Satellite maps & all you’ll find is green land!! :)</p>
<p>Also, your syllabus seems quite interesting!! And your subjects are focused… more like Sunny’s!! All those are merely chapters in our business studies & economics text books!! :p</p>
<p>@Jawad - Welcome!! Hopefully you’ll help keep up the pace of this thread! And what kind of rowing do you do??</p>
<p>Ohh and in other news… I got accepted to my only safet school - Drexel University!! To the Pennoni Honors college with a good amt. of scholarship!!
So I might be attending college next fall after all!! :p</p>
<p>I’m giving exams in Math, Physics, Chemistry, English, Bengali and Computer Science… but in college I’m likely to keep History and Literature… and maybe I’ll try a new language! How easy is that?</p>
<p>@Rishav
Haha thanks
You seriously sipped some! o_0
Great to hear that you feel confident about it! But will omitting conc. really take off a mark? Or was it necessary for the answer?</p>
<p>Oh and Rishav, Madagascar has quite a bit of tourism! They have a couple top notch hotels (more like lodges though in my opinion). But because the infrastructure is terrible, it hasn’t promoted major development… but they do have amazing plantations of vanilla!! </p>
<p>Congrats on the acceptance to your safety!</p>
<p>@Keya
Also a tech kinda guy (apart from the lit and history)
Did you also find that chem prac good (assuming you both did the same prac)</p>
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small classes (maybe 10 in each class depending on the subject), but the only marks taken in for reports were tests and some assignments - but they usually told us which work was going to be taken in to be marked.</p>
or by swimming a lot - but even the sea and pools are very warm (26-30 degrees Celsius!!)</p>