um, no, can't help you there, but a good friend of mine is an awarding winning documentary film maker with the Canadian Broadcasting Company. Perhaps I can put you in touch and he can help you apply on all film things Canadian.



If you me to introduce you, give me your email and I'll pass it on.

i haven't been this confused in... well, about 24 hours. it's pretty awesomely weird how education systems differ from country to country. i haven't the foggiest idea what you're talking about.

Sorry, I'm Canadian and I still have no idea what you're talking about :P

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I'm not entirely sure that there is an equivalent...here you graduate with a GPA, and you need a certain amount of credits to graduate, and you have to write exams (I don't know about the other provinces but in BC you have to write some provincials), and exam scores count...

also, I thought this blog was about the Canucks hockey team. And they are beyond help. :(

the Canucks have the swedish twins. woot!

WE SEE TEH LIGHT

this is tough because Education is legislated provincially rather than nationally, so it will be different depending on what part of canada you are looking to go to, I think.



In Alberta in high school you can take Matriculation, Honours or IB courses to get into University, and in grade 10, the classes are called (course name) 10, in grade 11 they are (course name) 20 and in grade 12 they are called (course name) 30.



We end up with percentage grades, and an honours average is usually around 75-80% in all the core subjects (math, english, social studies, and whichever of the 3 sciences you are taking).



I don't know if this is helping at all or if I am talking nonsense.



At the university level ( at least at the university of Alberta) first year courses are 100 level classes (so like english 101) 2nd years are 200 level and so on.





I'm sorry if this makes no sense.

Try finding someone out there that knows how to translate your grades into canadian ones, maybe someone at your university

Tazocat, that would be absolutly amazing, espcially because most of my expereince is with documentary, where is he based?





Thanks for the help guys, its a wee bit complicated which is a problem because no one seems to know the answer.



Our education is split into levels, we finish education at 16 after that its our choice to be in education.



GCSE's get you into college or they can get you a job (a bad job), you then take your A-levels and they can either get you a moderatly better job or (like most people) get you into university.



I went on an expat message board and I got one suggestion and that was a high school diploma and that really doesnt sound all that impressive on a CV, especially when I have a good high school diploma.

Stubby, His name is John Paskievich and he is from Winnapeg. If you google him, you'll see what he's done. He's an amazing guy, with a wicked sense of humor. I'm sure he'd love to help you. write me an email at claudiago@verizon.net and I'll send it along to him with a note of my own.



BTW, I wouln't be too concerned about translating your grades to suit the Canadian school system. I'm sure they have ways to translate the foreign figures and decide if you are a valuble canadate

Awesome, will do, I'm still trying to get my cv into a decent shape at the moment.



The only thing I'm worried about is that he's in winnapeg because I'm really not sure if I'd be able to rent an apartment.