The Kpop Megachurch (2 Viewers)

[Selfmate]

So you're going to tell me I'm delusional?!

I'm not saying that my friend
I'm saying if he doesn't take any interesting in you then that wouldn't seem like a person is that interested in you my friend

hell I'm like a million miles away from you and communicate to you on a kpop forum and does it seem I know more about you than he does? lol

 

[alo]

hi i know i'm very early (/s) but this seems fun, can i join?

 

[Selfmate]

hi i know i'm very early (/s) but this seems fun, can i join?

absolutely my friend

tell us something about yourself which we don't already know

 

[alo]

absolutely my friend

tell us something about yourself which we don't already know

wow i'm so prompt at replying (/s)

jokes aside i'm late cause i have exams going on rn criii

and what do i tell about myself that y'all don't already know... hmm...

i like baking!

 

[Selfmate]

wow i'm so prompt at replying (/s)

jokes aside i'm late cause i have exams going on rn criii

and what do i tell about myself that y'all don't already know... hmm...

i like baking!

what exams my friend?

baking everything or anything specific - what is your go to baked good?

 

[alo]

what exams my friend?

baking everything or anything specific - what is your go to baked good?

so i'm in my final year of school. in like march i'll have to write a set of what we call in our country "board exams" - super important, public examinations that are conducted across the education board (hence the name). basically my leaving school exams. the exams i'm writing rn are the "pre-boards" which as the name suggests are meant to help you prepare for the boards. these are within the school so yeah. gave my final pre-board today, it sucked hahaha

mmm i mostly prefer to bake sweet stuff!! cakes, cookies, etc etc. my go-to baked good would probably be cookies because of their simplicity haha. though i'm always looking for new recipes. like for my birthday last year i baked some eggless brownies for my friends (had to be eggless cause one of my friends is a vegetarian who doesn't eat eggs) and they came out pretty good ngl, nice and fudgy. but yeah mostly sweet stuff

 

[Selfmate]

so i'm in my final year of school. in like march i'll have to write a set of what we call in our country "board exams" - super important, public examinations that are conducted across the education board (hence the name). basically my leaving school exams. the exams i'm writing rn are the "pre-boards" which as the name suggests are meant to help you prepare for the boards. these are within the school so yeah. gave my final pre-board today, it sucked hahaha

mmm i mostly prefer to bake sweet stuff!! cakes, cookies, etc etc. my go-to baked good would probably be cookies because of their simplicity haha. though i'm always looking for new recipes. like for my birthday last year i baked some eggless brownies for my friends (had to be eggless cause one of my friends is a vegetarian who doesn't eat eggs) and they came out pretty good ngl, nice and fudgy. but yeah mostly sweet stuff

is this high school exams so for university entrance purposes?

eggscellent I guess when you next bake I expect my share to be shipped ASAP!!!

 

[HelloGoodbyeDie]

I haven't been in this church for ages

 

[Selfmate]

I haven't been in this church for ages

PRAISE BE PRAISE BE

 

[HelloGoodbyeDie]

PRAISE BE PRAISE BE

praise the man of the cloth indeed

 

[alo]

is this high school exams so for university entrance purposes?

eggscellent I guess when you next bake I expect my share to be shipped ASAP!!!

mmm not really - and that's the funny part.

earlier the scores you got on these board exams counted for university entrances, specifically the state universities (cause a lot of privately owned ones have their own tests). sure some lines of study have their own exams - like engineering, medicine, and law. but up until very recently, if you weren't doing anv of these in uni, your board exam marks got you into college. now, however, there's a new exam introduced for the state-owned unis called the cuet. so in short, your board marks don't really matter much now. however they can still help in uni admissions (if you've scored better than others you can get an edge), so yeah let's just see... it's really all right if you don't get it though it's pretty complex

yessir will ship right away!!!

 

[Selfmate]

mmm not really - and that's the funny part.

earlier the scores you got on these board exams counted for university entrances, specifically the state universities (cause a lot of privately owned ones have their own tests). sure some lines of study have their own exams - like engineering, medicine, and law. but up until very recently, if you weren't doing anv of these in uni, your board exam marks got you into college. now, however, there's a new exam introduced for the state-owned unis called the cuet. so in short, your board marks don't really matter much now. however they can still help in uni admissions (if you've scored better than others you can get an edge), so yeah let's just see... it's really all right if you don't get it though it's pretty complex

yessir will ship right away!!!

interesting
so it counts but less than the CUET?
when do you have do these exams? like soon or later in the year?

good things in life are free!!!

 

[alo]

interesting
so it counts but less than the CUET?
when do you have do these exams? like soon or later in the year?

good things in life are free!!!

if you're looking at state-owned unis and other unis that accept cuet scores - yes. if you're looking at privately owned unis with their own admission tests, well, they pretty much don't matter at all if you're applying in the early admission rounds held when you're still in your final year of school (like i've done for some). but yeah you do need to pass to leave school so there's that!

the board exams are in march, though some subjects have their exams in like mid-late feb. and the cuet's in may.

 

[Selfmate]

if you're looking at state-owned unis and other unis that accept cuet scores - yes. if you're looking at privately owned unis with their own admission tests, well, they pretty much don't matter at all if you're applying in the early admission rounds held when you're still in your final year of school (like i've done for some). but yeah you do need to pass to leave school so there's that!

the board exams are in march, though some subjects have their exams in like mid-late feb. and the cuet's in may.

that's way you said it was coming up

so for you personally my friend
how many exams are you taking overall?

 

[alo]

that's way you said it was coming up

so for you personally my friend
how many exams are you taking overall?

so five exams for my five subjects in the boards (march) then five exams in the cuet (may) - for two of my high school subjects and then english, math, and general knowledge. plus whatever priv university entrance tests i have to give.

 

[Selfmate]

so five exams for my five subjects in the boards (march) then five exams in the cuet (may) - for two of my high school subjects and then english, math, and general knowledge. plus whatever priv university entrance tests i have to give.

that's a whole lot of exams...

In Australia we have what we call ATAR - Australia Tertiary Admissions Rank

it is a combination of our school marks (after moderation) and university exams (called WACE) (again after moderation)

in our year 11 and year 12 (we can do ATAR over 2 years) we pick 6 subjects (max) and 4 subjects (min) that are used to determine our ATAR
regardless of whether one does 4 or 5 or 6 subjects the results are only based on the highest marks of 4 subjects (ie. if one did 6 one can "bomb" 2 of them)

we have school exams and school marks and generally they account for 50% of our final ATAR
then the WACE exams again account for the other 50% of our ATAR

our ATAR is based on a % ranking system so if one obtained an ATAR of 80 it means we were "better" than 80% of our cohorts.

Then each university in Australia has a set number of places - say 100 for engineering for one particular university then of the people who selected that particular university and that engineering course they would just take the top 100 people

There are certain subjects such as medicine and law that may require a separate exam but for the majority of courses one's ATAR is all that is required

 

[alo]

that's a whole lot of exams...

In Australia we have what we call ATAR - Australia Tertiary Admissions Rank

it is a combination of our school marks (after moderation) and university exams (called WACE) (again after moderation)

in our year 11 and year 12 (we can do ATAR over 2 years) we pick 6 subjects (max) and 4 subjects (min) that are used to determine our ATAR
regardless of whether one does 4 or 5 or 6 subjects the results are only based on the highest marks of 4 subjects (ie. if one did 6 one can "bomb" 2 of them)

we have school exams and school marks and generally they account for 50% of our final ATAR
then the WACE exams again account for the other 50% of our ATAR

our ATAR is based on a % ranking system so if one obtained an ATAR of 80 it means we were "better" than 80% of our cohorts.

Then each university in Australia has a set number of places - say 100 for engineering for one particular university then of the people who selected that particular university and that engineering course they would just take the top 100 people

There are certain subjects such as medicine and law that may require a separate exam but for the majority of courses one's ATAR is all that is required

oh wow it's interesting to learn more about other countries' systems! in india (should have probably mentioned earlier) you take you school-leaving boards after 12th grade but they don't test you on your 11th grade syllabus. in grades 11 and 12 you can take a 6th subject but 5 is the minimum, and if you take 6 they count only the top 5. my cousin took 6 subjects - the 6th being painting. she was also really busy preparing for the exam for law unis so she couldn't do that well in her boards. but painting she aced - because she's a gifted artist - and that really pulled her scores up. cause you do need a certain minimum board percentage (yes it's percentages and not percentile) to be eligible for a state-owned law uni.

honestly I feel like india's 4834773 exams and 49866323 different systems just make things more confusing stressful for students, sighh

 

[Selfmate]

oh wow it's interesting to learn more about other countries' systems! in india (should have probably mentioned earlier) you take you school-leaving boards after 12th grade but they don't test you on your 11th grade syllabus. in grades 11 and 12 you can take a 6th subject but 5 is the minimum, and if you take 6 they count only the top 5. my cousin took 6 subjects - the 6th being painting. she was also really busy preparing for the exam for law unis so she couldn't do that well in her boards. but painting she aced - because she's a gifted artist - and that really pulled her scores up. cause you do need a certain minimum board percentage (yes it's percentages and not percentile) to be eligible for a state-owned law uni.

honestly I feel like india's 4834773 exams and 49866323 different systems just make things more confusing stressful for students, sighh

yeah I understand I remember that the system changed like 10 or 20 years ago with the introduction of the ATAR system so that there was a comprehensive method across Australia (even if the exams per subject aren't necessarily the same) so that one could use the ATAR to apply for any university of one's choosing - it just simplified the system and made it easier for students.

Painting is a subject? wow never seen that before lol

 

[alo]

yeah I understand I remember that the system changed like 10 or 20 years ago with the introduction of the ATAR system so that there was a comprehensive method across Australia (even if the exams per subject aren't necessarily the same) so that one could use the ATAR to apply for any university of one's choosing - it just simplified the system and made it easier for students.

Painting is a subject? wow never seen that before lol

yeah painting is a subject! i mean, it depends on your education board (there's tons in india, one per state + a few pan-india ones). I'm doing cbse (that's the central board of secondary education, one of the pan-india ones) as did my cousin. cbse offers painting as a subject... along with a ton of other wacky ones haha. but it also depends on your school, whether they have teachers who'll teach subjects like those.

 

[Selfmate]

yeah painting is a subject! i mean, it depends on your education board (there's tons in india, one per state + a few pan-india ones). I'm doing cbse (that's the central board of secondary education, one of the pan-india ones) as did my cousin. cbse offers painting as a subject... along with a ton of other wacky ones haha. but it also depends on your school, whether they have teachers who'll teach subjects like those.

and does painting like scale? as in is there scaling or moderation?

What I mean by that is down under we have a scaling system that easier subjects are scaled down and harder subjects are scaled up

for example there are four high school science subjects one can take when applying for the ATAR - Physics, Chemistry, Human Biology, Biology and of the four physics is the "hardest" and thus gets scaled up - what this means is if your raw score comes to (as an example) 75 out of 100 it might get scaled up to an 80/100 since it's a harder subject. Inversely Biology is the easier of the science subjects and gets scaled down so if you got like raw 90/100 it might get scaled down to 83