Memes - I am:

[jack]

According to internet tests:

I am: Tungsten.
I am: 24 years old.
I nitpick: 8th grade maths tests

Tungsten has a cool symbol ("W"). 24 is fairly close. But can I stay 23/24 please? And I did make a couple of errors on the maths test, first by working out 5x6 and forgetting which was in the question and which was the answer, and secondly, by forgetting all my GRF and not thinking -7 could be prime (though in context that would not be the correct answer).

Comments

[yrieithydd.livejournal.com]

What age is 8th grade?

No idea. But some point at school around about the time of elementary algebra and comparison.

angelofthenorth reckoned it was about age 15, but I thought their grades were not so far removed from our years as that implies given that age 15 would be year 10 and year 8 is 12/13. But I've never got the American system. I might be being confused by the Australian system as seen on Neighbours when I thought it was basically the same as our years.

[icantcarenemore.livejournal.com]

I'm almost certain 1st grade is equivalent to year 1, 2nd grade to year 2 and so on. This comes from years of online communication with American schoolgoers.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I had enough trouble remembering the "year n" system, because neither of my schools used them. But in year 7, I had a history text book saying "PAST: Y7" which Dad was convinced referred to a group of 7 people from Pasty :) so I always work it out relative to that :)