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Oct 25, 2016 15:53
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Spanish term

AC, S1, S2 under the heading \"Período\"

Spanish to English Other Education / Pedagogy en un boletín de calificaciones de Puerto Rico
Headings on the transcript (from Puerto Rico), 7th - 9th grades:

ID del curso, Título, Nota, Crédito, Período
(Course code, Name of course, Grade for that class, No. of credits for that class, period)

All of the regular classes have "AC" under the last column.
Teatro I has "S1"
Salud 7-9 has "S2"

Both S1 and S2 classes were taken in 9th grade.

I tried calling the school several times yesterday and today but there is no answer.
Proposed translations (English)
3 Credited, Semester/Term 1, Semester/Term 2
4 Yearlong, Semester 1, Semester 2
References
Page 61 2-Asegurese de que el Código...

Discussion

MollyRose (asker) Oct 26, 2016:
Quarter = grading period If Puerto Rico, being a territory of the U.S., has the same or similar requirements as the U.S., a quarter would be 9 weeks. 36 weeks are required (which includes a certain number of hours in class). We have 2 semesters, each of which consists of 2 quarters.
Helena Chavarria Oct 26, 2016:
Yesterday I saw in one reference that a cuatrimestre is 16 weeks (or was it 12? Sorry, I can't remember). That would mean that each period lasts a specific number of weeks.

I tried to find out how many weeks/hours an academic year lasts in Puerto Rico, and the length of each period, but I couldn't find the information.

But if, for example, a student went to school for 40 weeks a year (I have no idea how long the academic year lasts) they would study an annual subject for 40 weeks, though stopping for school holidays; they would study a subject lasting a semestre for 20 weeks, a trimestre for 13.33 weeks and a cuatrimestre for 10 weeks.

Or something along those lines. I know that in Spain students study a subject for a specific number of hours a year.
MollyRose (asker) Oct 26, 2016:
AC Maybe, based on Helena's reference, it is Annual (dividido en) Cuatrimestres?
MollyRose (asker) Oct 25, 2016:
Oh! 1. I didn´t know that. Sorry.
2. I didn´t put the slashes in there. The ProZ computer must have done that.
Wilsonn Perez Reyes Oct 25, 2016:
Reglas de Kudoz Hay dos problemas con tu consulta. No hay que usar barras \\ ni comillas ". Al usar estos signos, la entrada no se podrá hallar en el glosario.

Proposed translations

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Credited, Semester/Term 1, Semester/Term 2

AC is usually "acreditado" (credited).
S1 and S2 are presumably semestres 1 y 2 (semester (US), term (UK)).
Note from asker:
This makes sense! I´ll wait and see if anyone from PR confirms or says otherwise. Thanks.
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3 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Semesters 1 and 2. I used Annual Credit for AC, based on Helen's reference. Thanks!"
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Yearlong, Semester 1, Semester 2

I had the same type of document. I agree with Helena, S1 and S2 are definitely for 'semester 1' and 'semester 2'. The other type of course, and by far the most common type in high school, are yearlong courses.

So, "AC" (no idea what the Spanish term being abbreviated is) must stand for "yearlong", meaning courses that last through semester 1 and semester 2. This would also explain why these courses are full 1 credit courses, whereas the S1 and S2 courses are only 0.5 credits.
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Reference comments

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Reference:

Page 61

2-Asegurese de que el Código de Periodo Académico sea el correcto si la clase es de año debe elegir AC, si la duración del curso es de un semestre y se ofrece en el primer semestre debe elegir S1 y si la duración del curso es de un semestre y se ofrece en el segundo semestre debe elegir S2.

http://intraedu.dde.pr/Comunicados Oficiales/CALENDARIO SIE ...

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Secuencia Curricular (C = Cuatrimestre; T = Trimestre; S = Semestre)
Período: S1, S2, T1, T2, T3, C1, C2, C3, C4

http://www.uprm.edu/ac/facultad/2005-06/6sept05.conv1.pdf

AC means the subject is taught throughout the whole year (annual?) but I can't find what AC stands for (academic course?)

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Note added at 1 hr (2016-10-25 17:10:43 GMT)
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(S = Semestre; T = Trimestre; C = Cuatrimestre; V=Verano; A=Anual)

http://senado.uprrp.edu/RevisionBA/JG-2014-2015-112-Codifica...
Note from asker:
Hooray! Now we know what the S stands for, and even though we don't know what AC stands for, at least we know what it means. Thank you!
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