(I realise I'm a tad late! I opened this as soon as I saw it on my flist, but I have so many tabs up it just got buried!)
I don't think it's been mentioned yet, but one thing that really annoys me whenever I see it written is: "I'll write Harry" or "Draco wrote me". It's always "I'll write to Harry" and "Draco wrote to me". Always remember the 'to'!
Our school systems definitely work differently. In England (I know Scotland's system is certainly different), to go to university you need to have A-Levels. Usually it doesn't matter what A-Levels as it's the grades that make up the UCAS (UCAS is our admission service into university) points. For example, an A* is worth 140 points, an A is 120 points, B is 100 points, C is 80 points, D is 60 points and an E is 40 points, so if you got BBC, you'd have 280 points, and could take any university course up to 280 points. Some courses and/or universities may want you to have taken certain subjects at A-Level though, but not all. Looking at one particular course in Molecular Biology at one university, you need to have received ABB for your A-Levels, but the subjects could have been anything - Art, Philosophy and History, say.
You can get A-Levels at sixth form (a lot of secondary schools have sixth forms attached to them and so the school just goes up to year 13) or college (colleges tend to do more vocational courses).
I was recently driven near mad where the Brits used dollars. I just... what?! Most mistakes I can understand, but not every country uses the same currency!
Apologies if the school thing got a tad complicated! ♥ As a side note, if anyone ever wants a Britpicker, I'm always available :) I absolutely love Britpicking and would be happy to help.
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Date: 2012-05-24 09:50 pm (UTC)I don't think it's been mentioned yet, but one thing that really annoys me whenever I see it written is: "I'll write Harry" or "Draco wrote me". It's always "I'll write to Harry" and "Draco wrote to me". Always remember the 'to'!
Our school systems definitely work differently. In England (I know Scotland's system is certainly different), to go to university you need to have A-Levels. Usually it doesn't matter what A-Levels as it's the grades that make up the UCAS (UCAS is our admission service into university) points. For example, an A* is worth 140 points, an A is 120 points, B is 100 points, C is 80 points, D is 60 points and an E is 40 points, so if you got BBC, you'd have 280 points, and could take any university course up to 280 points. Some courses and/or universities may want you to have taken certain subjects at A-Level though, but not all. Looking at one particular course in Molecular Biology at one university, you need to have received ABB for your A-Levels, but the subjects could have been anything - Art, Philosophy and History, say.
You can get A-Levels at sixth form (a lot of secondary schools have sixth forms attached to them and so the school just goes up to year 13) or college (colleges tend to do more vocational courses).
I was recently driven near mad where the Brits used dollars. I just... what?! Most mistakes I can understand, but not every country uses the same currency!
Apologies if the school thing got a tad complicated! ♥ As a side note, if anyone ever wants a Britpicker, I'm always available :) I absolutely love Britpicking and would be happy to help.