Graduating soon

[Fairy Queen]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "uilnslcoap" 
<devin.smither at y...> wrote:

  Just wanted to say I'm just 
> one paper away from finishing college. 

Congratulations!
 

> Is anyone else finishing school?  Anyone even not finishing school 
> but just looking forward to the end of the year/Harry?  Does the 
> British school year end in mid-to-late June?  What's going on 
school-
> wise?
> 
> Devin

I'm in year 12 at a British muggle school (that's the same as 
Hogwarts sixth year), so I've got one more year to go before I'm off 
to uni.  As for the British school year, our summer holidays don't 
start untill 24th July!  I'm not actually at school for the next few 
weeks though, as I'm on study leave - I have AS level exams (halfway 
between GCSEs and A levels, aka OWLs and NEWTs) coming up soon, so I 
don't have to go to lessons.  But the exams finish mid June, and then 
I have to go back to school untill late July. 

Is there an American equivalent of these exams? What happens when you 
finish school there?

Lucy

p.s What are s'mores? They were mentioned in a TBAY post ages ago, by 
Derannimer, I think, and I meant to ask then but I forgot.