EIS students in universities

Last year’s Graduate students of Escuela Internacional (EIS) that are in universities say that the university is very different from school. Many of these students studying in United States (USA) came last week, some after their final exams, for summer vacation.

“University is much harder, even though you have fewer classes” said graduate student Oliver Echeverry who now attends Southeastern Louisiana University.

“The teachers are different because many of them don’t care about homework” says graduate Paul Ritter which now attends Perdue University, and added that “they only care about the mid terms tests and the finals tests and projects.”

“You don’t get to know each person in the different classes because there are too many of them. Some classes have about 80 students!” exclaimed graduate Gabriel Aguilar who attends a community college in Baton Rouge Louisiana

“I think university is easier because you have fewer classes” said graduate Henry Romero which now attends Universidad Tecnologica de Honduras (Technology University of Honduras), and adds that “the problem is that if you take fewer classes you are going to take more time to finish your career studying.”

“Some students must have a high grade because that’s the only way they can keep their scholarship or play well so they can still have their sports scholarship” said Paz

2004 graduate students attend many universities from USA and Honduras. “About 90% of the students are continuing their studies in universities” said graduated Andres Paz

“I haven’t been studying because I want to go to France, and I need to study French before going there” said graduate Paola Canahuati.

“I’m working right now because that way I could pay the university” says graduate Henry Romero.

In the class of 2005 seniors more than 50% of the students were accepted in United States universities and colleges. Among them, Student Council president Doris Hernandez was accepted to Harvard University

The year is ending

The seniors’ school year end last week and the rest of secondary in Escuela Internacional Sampedrana will end May 24 after bimestrial exams. Many of the students are happy that the year is ending said junior Jose Ortiz.

“At last we have completed our eight months of studying in this year for school” said junior Jose Duron.

“It has been a tiring year because we started it with a lot of homework in the first bimester” said junior Kwang Woo Jeon.

Ortiz said that “I was waiting for a lot of time for vacation to come and now I won’t have to wait more.”

There also many students that end their school year because they exempt the bimestrial exams such as junior Rosa Terecero said Duron

“I felt this year was very long because we saw many different topics in the different subjects this year” said sophomore Daniel Delgado.

“It has been a good year because we have applied many new things this year and we have been a little less flexible” said principal Reina Rojas and added that “we are also planning for next year, especially for those taking the Advance Placement (AP) courses. Many students still need to pay for their courses.”

“I thank God that I finished this year well because I passed all the classes since the third bimester” said junior Dennis Vallejo

“I have learned many things that before I didn’t understand” said freshman Iris Cerella and added that “next year I would try to get better grades.”

“I don’t think I’m going to pass this year because I have flunk 5 classes said junior Ana Bendeck, and added that “I’m going to try to pass three classes, because that way I only have to recuperate two classes and it would make it less stressful.”

Some students are going to flunk this year, and must take the recuperations exams and if they do not pass it, they would have to stay in summer school.

Bimestrial exams

More than 90% of the juniors, freshmen and seniors prefer no to have bimestrial exams.

Many people do not like bimestrial exams because they say that you take too much time studying and they make you sleep late.

While others say that this bimestrial exams makes your grade rise because the accumulative grade is 70% and that way you can raise your grade if you have an accumulative grade of 87% (61/70) to a 91% final grade with the bimestrial exams.

A lot of people also want this to be eliminated because they think the schedule would be shortened.

Its an extra job for the teachers to do these exams said junior Jose Pavon, and also said that they also get stressed of checking a lot of tests in a short time.

The best thing to do is to make exams that are worth 20 percent because that way it would please both the want who want exams because this exam could still help raise this grade. It would work for the ones that do not want because that way they would study less because there would be less content.

Another solution may be divided the bimestrial in a mid-term exam and a final exam. Both tests will be worth 15% of the grade and that way they would have to study for one part, and then for another.