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When I moved to Canada in 98 from Belarus, I had minimal language knowledge. I was also half way through school year. After my testing was done I was put in to next grade.

Even though I was not the best student in my home country, prolly mediocre at best. With some subjects being better than others, still it was surprising to me.

By next school year I also felt that science classes were way behind what I was used to, and even though I could only read and barely understood instructions, I still was able to do very well in all of my stem classes despite lack of language knowledge. Honestly it was kind of annoying that I had to do things that I already have done in previous grades.

As I have started getting better with English and started paying less attention in class and less to my homework, eventually I fell somewhat behind.