The American system sounds complicated. From what I gather you have to pass every class, and you end up somehow with a Grade Point Average... although hell if I know what that means. That's all I know.
I chose my classes last September, and I've had the same ones since then. No electives or anything. They're all two year courses which finish around May this year, then I have a shitload of important exams...
Where are you? Canada? UK? If you don't mind my asking.
GPA's aren't that complicated. Basically, every A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, F=0. And then they average all those numbers together to make your grade point average. If you're in honors or AP, schools will "weight" the classes, meaning a B could weight as higher than a 3 because it's harder.
Me or Fishy? I have five hour-long classes every day. The order of classes is different every day for two weeks, then it repeats itself, which makes it horrible to remember.
More directed at Fishy, although her reference to 0 hour makes me think that they're an hour long too. And she also answered my other question.
Ours is different again. 6 subjects, or five actually next year. We have 4x 80 minute periods, and we also have the different order over two weeks which then repeats itself. It normally takes the better part of a semester to remember it all.
And I agree with you about the American system. The Australian one is much closer to yours, except there's some ability to do only the second half of the two year course for some subjects, which means I could swap Chem for Psych this year, thank God.