Finally..

My marticulation exams are over.. Didn't go the best, but not the worst either. I'm quite satisfied.
A quick summary:

-English: Went very good, not the highest grade although I retook the exam. But the current second-best grade corresponds the best grade in the former system. They've made it different lately.
So I'm happy with it, although didn't quite reach my goal.

-Swedish: Went OK. Concerning how much I suck at it it went well. The only thing that bothers me is that if I had got 3 more points I would've reached a better grade.

-Spanish: Final results still to come. Didn't go well, since I'm generally quite bad at it. But it went good taken the circumstances into account, also I studied quite little for it.

-The "real" subject, religion in this case: Final results still to come. Didn't have high expectations for it in the beginning, and it went a bit lower than I could've achieved. But it'll do. I would've taken philosophy as the subject in which to take the exam but there was a hassle in the course-plate and I didn't get enough courses to get me started from. Hence I had to go with religion, with a little less interest.
But it was the second best choice.

-Finnish: Final results still to come for the latter part. Went good. I achieved my skill level in the test and I'm waiting a relatively good grade from it. The test consisted of two parts, the latter went better. Both being such that it's hard to study for them reading books for instance. You had to take the preparation courses in order to prepare yourself for the exam.

So overall everything OK. Now just two regular exams and my school is over for good. So quite chills.
Although I can have a break of one week at the maximum 'cause then I'll have to start reading for the university entrance exam. I'm trying to get in the University of Tampere (Tammerfors) to study translation and interpreting of English.

cool...gratz

cool.
Hehe I expected my biology test to went good as well.. turned out to be a 7 out of 25.

nice grratz mate.

cool. So you'll be active on jk2 in no time.

Price discrimination.

English literature, or general English studies?

Well at least your somewhat satisfied with the result.
Cheers mate!

general Englisg studies Boom

nice ^^
but just a question...
IS this the subjects u have?
tahst a lot of foreighn languages for school 0o

4 languages? It's not that many is it, I have 4 too


and gratz with the good parts of your results hule =p

Flemish people grow up with a myriad of languages.

but I still don't get where you got your vocabulary from :>

In our system we can mostly choose in which subjects to take the final exams. There are several compulsory ones, eg. Finnish. Also it's a must to take the exam one long-term subject. There you can choose between long maths, long English, long German etc..
And a "real" subject is compulsory, as well.

So we can practically choose the subjects, as long as the tests in a long subject, Finnish and the "real" are taken. Of course you can take more exams if you wish, but that's the minimum.

I'm jealous
here you can only choose a few variations on the courses you can get.
But basically, it's all the same. It just switches between more hours for maths or more for languages or sciences. There isn't much that isn't obligated.
Of course there's also schools for more practical educations

I like our education system. One of the better ones for high school level.

And our universities are good too.

I still don't know whether to go to university, work.. or perhaps the army. The navy seems cool =)

I'll take the Univesity entrance exam this spring, hoping to get started with the studies the next autumn. I'll attend the army forces next January.
They permit a pause from the studies for the time of the military service. So I can return where I left after the service is over.

No military service for me.

Tony* wrote:I still don't know whether to go to university, work.. or perhaps the army. The navy seems cool =)

don't go to Belgian army :/
It's so pathetic

No no, Dutch army.


Choosing the right path is hard.
Perhaps go abroad for a year and then go to university.