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i've always wondered, what qualifications do you do in America? Is it SATs, GCSEs, A Levels etc?
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i've always wondered, what qualifications do you do in America?

2 faves · 7 comments · Jun 27, 2013 12:06pm

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fool's gold* · 1 decade ago
Aha I don't know much about this stuff, even though I should... But I think this is right... we take the ACTs and those are really important for college, and the SATs is an optional test; it's taken if you plan on going to college outside of your state of residency. And I don't know what the other two are c:
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burnitdown · 1 decade ago
so do you not do tests in year 9, then year 11, then year 13?
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fool's gold* · 1 decade ago
Ummm... Honeslty I don't know what you mean because in high school we just call our years "freshman", "sophomore", "junior" and then "senior". The ACTs are taken most often Junior year, but they can be taken Senior year as well. You have to pay each time you take the ACTs, but you can take them up to three times and then your best score is what they use.
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burnitdown · 1 decade ago
we're around 13 years old when we are in year 9, and then at 15/16 we are in year 11 so we do our gcses which allows us to go into year 12 and 13 where we do our a levels which get us into university, does that make sense?;D
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fool's gold* · 1 decade ago
I think I follow, yeah c:
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dapz95 · 1 decade ago
they do SATs for uni applications
apparantly everything else is coursework -_- lucky buggers!
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burnitdown · 1 decade ago
no way that is so not fair!!
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