jjc1992 said:
cool so what you going to do, im in forensic science
basically, u could think of it as a very major exam in a secondary school or to u guys, it is probably known as high school i think.
Anyway, we are graded on general subject such as english, elementary math or E math for short and/or advanced Math( A Math) and some basic social studies in conjunction with either History or/and Geography. Also, They might be tested on combined science or on pure science. Differences would be that for combined science, they are taught a small bits and piece on chemistry/biology/physic, o and if u are wondering about the frogs, last i heard from my friends, singaporeans don do that, all they get to cut up were flower or carrots( this was in O level around 3 years ago, if i remember correctly) or some other vegetable but never living/dead corpses.
O and also, we are also tested on our mother tongue which could be malay/tamil/chinese depending on the student race, and in each mother tongue, they are further splitted into basic, regular or higher which is advanced.
Differences would be basic is freaking basic, think of it this way, basic is ur regular exam when u are just do at ur usual school before advancing to high school, its that simple, it comes with fill in the blanks, picture composition and the rest of the easy stuff.
Regular is just regular, we learn some chinese(in my case) words and that's it, as for exam, we have to learn the han yu ping yin which u can called it the english version of chinese.. As for composition/essay, usually the topic would be something like tell me what happen XXXX or what are your views on XXX ( this is the easiest mainly because if u had read the papers that happen around 2 years ago, this will be really useful, heck u can practically copy and paste word by word and still get a pass).
Advance would be just that, u learn more complex words that u will never use, the exam question are a lot harder but format-wise its the same as regular.
Let's see, i had talk about, english, mother tongue, math, science and humanity studies and that's around 8 subjects( this can change depending on ur school, well i took 8).
As for grading wise, this work this way, (Letter)(Number)
75+ A1
70~74 A2
65 ~ 69 B3
...
~50 C6
below this = fail.
total = the sum of the number
ratio would just be the average
So for O level, and the rest of the school school, it is best that ur total is as low as possible.
and if ur results are good enough, u will be able to go to a college/ Polytechnic| Junior College(JC) of your choosing.
JC = university route
Poly = working route
