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depends what kind of engineering you're planning on going to.. i HIGHLY recommend getting a CD version of your textbook and going over the other 2 units... relativity is not so important...
my friends in ENG have said that you only really need the first two units for first year... but those other two units become important really fast after that...
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Location: Alberta
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ohh.. That sucks dude. I found those last three units way more difficult than the first two, though realistically high school physics is just plug and chug formulas. I never paid attention and have a mid ninties mark.
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Location: mississauga
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oh frig that sucks. yeah, we spent like a third of the year on quantum mechanics since my physics teacher had her master's in physics/mathematics.
in grade 11 tho, we got like 5 freaking teachers (1 went prego, 2 student teachers, 2 subs) thru out the year, so it was pretty choppy/inconsistent.
I dont think that the universities are actually allowed to adjust your marks depending on what school you go to, but it'll matter once ur in, cuz the prestigious schools tend to have more rigorous courses/teachers, so u'll gain study skills. my school's like one of the more challenging in my area, but i mean an 80 is an 80 regardless of where u go, although we have a LOT more students who go onto 2nd yr and 3rd yr, than the average school once they're in, just b/c they've learned most of the basics, and they've learned to cope with a lot of school work.
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ah, my mistake. i thought you were the person who won the d/r sobey atlantic canada award. that must have been someone else. you won the chancellor's/chernoff then?
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Joined: 5/6/2008
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Location: QC
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Light, waves, and modern physics is the funnest part of physics, in my opinion...though that could just be 'cause I had an awesome professor for that topics.
The school you go to does not make a difference.
A lot of people think it does, for example if you go to a supposedly really hard, prestigious school, the university would take that into account if your average is lower than someone who went to a supposedly easy school. Untrue.
In Quebec, at least, for high school final exams, they are the same province-wide. For CEGEP, only the English exit exam is the same. All the other exams depend on the school. A lot of schools don't even have the same classes.
I had Electricity & Magnetism, Cal III, and Differential Equations as science courses in my fourth semester, while others had Modern physics, Cal, and computers or something.
Also, for CEGEP, we have an R-score system, which is a mark based on how high your own grade is, how well you did compared to your class average, the group strength, how high the class average is, etc. It's super complicated to calculate, but it's quite accurate. Quebec universities use this mark to determine whether or not you get in, not your percentage.
It pretty much just depends on how well you do.
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