Wow. Inspirational.

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well i don't like the idea of a paper telling me what i can do..they should allways give tests when they are employing. i want to learn programming too

anyway your system i sbetter than in my country because most of the time they test memory and not abilities

thank you the bacalaureat is in june. I don't know the exact date but i'll give it to you when i find out

and i still like the japanese system . there are a lot of people not taking college seriously unfortunately even in my country(where everything is still communism )

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well let me know when and i will light some incense for you, pray to the gods of the baccalaureate exam i'm sure you will do great tho!

our equivalent test is the SAT exam. i got lucky, i never took it. i dropped out of high school two years early, took an equivalency test, and ended up going to junior college for two years, then regular college. nobody would die of envy over my academic record, but i've done ok AND i got out of high school two years early, which thrilled me (i hated high school)...

what kind of programming do you want to study? hardware, software, web?

hehe. there are always ways around the system. I left school at 16 (which is common in the UK), so of course I didn't take the exams needed to enter uni. I did other stuff first, and only went to uni when I was ready (age 24). They let me in

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sometimes i think we're more clever than those lot who go lockstep from high school to university

so do i have to wait for the autobiography to hear about "the lost years"? what did you do between 16 and 24?

i spent 4 years in the army, myself--that's where i first studied chinese. after that, i was finally convinced of the value of higher education

I didn't want to go to uni, for lots of reasons, not least because I was pretty quiet as a teen, and remaining in school between 16 and 18 actually involved going to a college, where I didn't know anyone. I did go, in fact, for a semester, then I dropped out.

I was into technical drawing at school (this was before CAD), and I wanted to get through the back door into architecture. I got a job as a trainee structural engineer and then, a year later, as a trainee architectural technician. That involved working and going to another college one day a week. After 5 years I would have become a qualified technician.

As it was, the UK hit a recession in 89/90 and the small architect business I worked for closed, making me redundant. The building trade is always the first to suffer in a recession, so there were no other jobs for an as-yet-not-qualified technician. So I switched career, moving into care work (adults with learning disabilities). Did that for 5 years, mostly hated it (not the people - the work, which was mostly manual, cooking, cleaning and the like). Did a counselling qualification, which I've never used professionally. Then got bored with what was basically a dead-end position and finally decided to do something completely different.

Starting another job was not going to happen - I had no experience and I would have taken a drop in pay unless I stayed in the same field. So I became a student and had no money, along with all the other students. It was great fun - three best years of my life up to that point.

Oh yeah, I also took the heavy vehicle driving test while I was working in care (first thing I could think of to try and get out). So my part time work while at uni was driving 25 tonne trucks around London, much to the amusement/amazement of my friends.

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ok i realize that i didn't tell you about the bacalaureat exam. remember that you are allowed to take it only once in your life and you can only take it again if you failed.

this is it's structure (the structure is available for my specialisation : social science)

exam "A": romanian litareature(wiritten test; 3 hours; testing: interpretation of poetry, drama, novels etc)
exam "B": romanian literature (oral exam...testing the same things)
exam "C": english (oral exam-testing your english comprehesion)
exam "D": you get to choose between romanian history or romanian geography
exam "E": you choose from: economics, logistics, pshychology, sociology, filosophy, romanian gography(you are not allowed to choose this is you had allready chosen it at exam "D")-all written exams
exam "F": you choose from: math, biology, physics, another modern language diffrent from exam "B",<- these are writtten exams, and you can also choose sports witch is a practical exam.

In order to get a perfect score at the sport exam i have to do thesefor girls)
run 50 meters in 7.7 second
do 20 pushups, roll on the floor, do a "bridge" from standing up(gymnastics)
stand on my hands for 3 seconds
jump 1.95 meters ( i jump 2 meters )
and play voley (or another sport i've choosed)

anyway we wouldn't be able to leave highschool at 16 only if i entered higschool at 12 because: in order to finish higschool you need to take and pass the bacalaureat exam..you are not allowed to take that exam before finishing higschool.

i took the SAT myself because i'm trying to get to study in the US. i have a score of 1710 from 2400 (witch means that it's about 1150 on the old scale)

i want to study any kind of programing..it doesn't matter

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