In case anybody remotely cares: these are my 1st sem. exam results. (I only took a partial program, the rest will be in march/april)

French: 89%
Math A: 66% (miscalculations, and I completely blew one question which made up approx. 20%)
Math A (advanced 1): 80%

Only the math A result bugs me, but yeah... I'm kinda absent-minded, so add some stress => get guaranteed mistakes.

Ouch at Math A :S. Over here, my mom wanted me to have 70% in order to give me some sort of reward. At 80% she was even more happy. However I heard in USA and western Canada, people standards are much higher (they require 90-100). I was not too happy when I had under 75, personally, but in French class I had serious troubles with reading comprehension, so my goal was always the passing note, 60%, as I barely got that.

The level of education is also much higher in Western Europe than in the USA (or so I heard), because the funds for education are better here. Generally, Flanders is renowned for its (relatively) high educational standards. (that means the tests are harder, not that the grades are better)

Also, passing here requires 50%, not 60. You might also want to consider the fact that I had no assistance whatsoever (no teachers and whatnot) to help me study the material.
This kind of stuff passes as 'pretty good' to the normal people out there. To me it's 'meh, could do better, but why bother'. Yes, I'm lazy. And no, I'm not crafting an excuse

EDIT: Oh yeah, should mention this. We have a kind of 'waterfall system' here.
ASO: Algemeen Secundair Onderwijs (General Secondary Education): For people who intend to go to university. Has a very broad curriculum.
TSO: Technisch Secundair Onderwijs (Technical Secondary Education): Has nothing to do with tech, but it is a more 'focused' version of the above. Very few people actually go to higher education from here.
BSO: Beroepssecundair onderwijs (Professional Secondary Education): Teaches professions like baker, butcher, cook... For people who want a job immediately after highschool. The cliché (that is partly true), is that these schools are filled with dropouts and occasionally tardmuffins. Not all of them are, though, I know quite a few nice people from those schools. And no offence intended.

These systems were conceived as completely separate, but in practice, it works like this:

ASO -> if you fail-> TSO -> BSO. Generally, ASO and TSO are approximately equal as far as educational level is concerned, but the practical minds are mostly in TSO.

Regardless, this creates opportunities for 'tuned testing'. You can effectively make tests that are very difficult/very easy without creating too much trouble. It's up to you do decide whether this matters, but meh. (I'm ASO by the way)

 
whoooooooo
i dont get that high grades
 

My parents want me to get all As, but as I'm taking three advanced classes and no free periods, that's probably not going to happen.  The only class I don't have an A or B in is Honors English (Apparently you don't need to start paragraphs with Output(1,3,"  ), and I have a C+ in that.

My parents don't care if I like the class or not.  They expect me to get an A.

Hey, another Latin-taker. Salve!  (I'm in Latin III this year)

for me I got

96 in science
97 in French
90 in science

Math A: 19.8/20

My only test for now, I'm genius at maths