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I lived in Germany from 1992-1995, so my last year in school there was Yr 7, or in Canada Grade 6. At this age in science class we more often than not were using things like bunson burners and blowing up things like sodium or magnesium. Sex education videos involved actually showing the penis entering the vagina.
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Government, morality police and lawyers have pretty much removed all the sodium, magnesium and graphic sex ed. from elementary schools
Actually, the Jr high--> high school courses have ~15 wet labs per semester, so it isn't exactly all paperwork.
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Like many people, I am not a book learner. I never took chemistry, or biology, or physics. Actually, it took me two tries to pass Math 24!!! Since I went to audio school, I can RT-60 a room (an RT-60 is a measurement of the sound absorbing properties of different construction materials) and then even shoot the room using pink noise to measure standing waves and place treatments accordingly. Once you get into the meat of it, it is some damn complicated physics...
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So in your case, you excelled when it interested you, but if were an interested employer looking at your resume, and I knew it took you two tries to pass math 24 because you thought school math was boring, I'd worry about your work ethic and attention span drifting on a slow day, or if the task required any sort of application you thought was boring.
As I mentioned before, testing cannot possibly be the only means of assessment, but when used correctly, it is a valuable means of collecting summative data and evaluating knowledge outcomes.