<p>Here in Canada, it's like half of the schools are semestered and half are non-semestered. For non-semestered, every other day is a different set of 4 courses from the previous day. So 8 courses in total for non-semestered.</p>
<p>What about you guys? Which route does your high school take?</p>
<p>In my school in Pennsylvania, US, we have two semesters that run back to back. Each semester has two marking periods. So in essence, our school's grading systems runs more on the four marking periods than the semesters. The only difference is when you take a semester class, it lasts for two marking periods (half of the school year). Hope that helps!</p>
<p>Semestered;[ul][<em>]2 major semesters in 1 year with
[</em>]6 six-week periods throughout the year (3 six-week periods in 1 semester, 3 in the other semester)
[*]So in total, 36 weeks, 7 courses per day.[/ul]</p>
<p>I live in Virginia, and we do have semesters, but unless you take a semester course like Trig/Precalc your grade for the semester doesn't show up on your final transcript. For like a full year class like english you could have a D for the semester and let's say you somehow pulled off an A for the year. Then on your transript there is no mention of the D, it only says A.
We choose seven classes but divide the school days into red and silver days. On red days we go to classes 1,3,5,7: on silver days classes 2,4,6,7. Classes are an hour and 45 minutes approximately except 7th period which is only 55 minutes. We have ten minutes breaks in between. Lunch break is kind of short only about 35 minutes.</p>
<p>We have quarters and semesters, though quarter grades dont end up on the transcript, but both semester grades do. We choose 6 classes (7 if you want a 0 period), and we go to all of them everyday (52-57 minutes a period... it changes...). we dont even have real semester classes except for Health and the required freshman comp class. Doesnt block schedule get boring... I would hate to be in a single class for almost 2 hours. I would get so bored...</p>
<p>We have it:</p>
<p>2 Semesters per year
2 Periods within each semester
9 weeks each period</p>
<p>Transcripts show only semester grades and final grades (average of the 2 semester grades); Semester grades are based on 80% of the average of your two quarter grades, while 20% is based on the midterm/final</p>
<p>8 classes total
4 classes on one day
4 other classes on the next day (alternating)</p>
<p>90 minute classes
Lunch doesn't count as a period (lunch is 45 minutes)
5 minute passing periods</p>
<p>we are on the quarter system which really sucks because we have 'midterm finals' on our 2nd and 3rd semester and have our big finals on our 4th semester.
So it feels like we have finals every 8 weeks or something.</p>
<p>We can only choose 4 subjects for the year. We have p.e and english as compulsory.</p>
<p>5 subjects a day. Everyday always has subjects at different periods. It's hard to explain.. it's like the rotating system.</p>
<p>I'm from Michigan and at my school we have:</p>
<p>2 semesters per year
2 quarters per semester, but only semester grades count for GPA
10 weeks per quarter
transcripts don't show exam grades, just semester grades</p>
<p>approx. 1 hour long classes
6 classes per day, same classes each day
6 minutes passing time</p>
<p>Here we have 5-6 periods a day and a 7-day rotating cycle, with each main class meeting 5 times of 7, normally not at the same time. (A 7-day cycle sounds like a week, but it's not... the first week is days 1,2,3,4,5, then 6,7,1,2,3, then 4,5,6,7,1, and so on.) It sounds nice because it "mixes things up" - you don't always have math in the morning, for instance - but it's an absolute mess to schedule college courses around.</p>