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I started thinking about college in my freshman year, so yeah

<span style='font-family: courier new,courier,monospace'>I started thinking about college in my freshman year, so yeah </span>

 

Hah, I'm doing the same thing.

But the marks you get in your final year don't matter.

 

And then the marks you get at the end of university also don't matter.

 

It's a big rock flying through space, people want to set up some order and convince you this stuff matters, when it doesn't.

 

You don't really need good marks to get a decent job and be happy.

 

So yeah.

 

- Tilius

I agree with you, even though I won't be starting the last year until mid September. Teachers have already told us that this final year we will storm through the different syllabus way faster than the previous year, which means much more exams and much, much more hours that will have to be spent studying. Oh, and also there's the Exams for Universtiy Acess (This is just a rough translation; in my country they're called Selectivitat, which I think that is the equivalent of the SAT Reasoning Test or the A-Levels).

 

And if that wasn't enough we have to do a Research Project during summer, without which we're not allowed to go to university :$ .

 

Yeah, I completely agree with you. Even though I'm in my final year, I've never recieved any kind of orientation or information to help me choose my futur career. Oh well.

I found the last year of high school to be the opposite; they stress you out for the first half with college applications and making sure your grades are okay, that you can just coast the second half, which is what most of us did.

 

Also what Tilius said. I like to think that my high school gave me a better knowledge base and applicable skillset than most other schools (9th in the country when I graduated, baby... now it's down to 25th, last I checked =P) but really, none of it matters at all to anything I've done since. The grades themselves don't matter, the way you learn and apply that does, and the two barely correlate.

I completely agree that the marks don't actually matter in the sense that nothing matters. However, I do need good marks to get into the uni course that I want, which will make me happy and give me the skills I need to get a job I want.

 

Dorek, I suspect we're in different countries (Australia has no nationwide ranking system, it's state-by-state). My post is probably irrelevant to any other schooling system than the NSW one.