I have national finals in 40 days that determine my entry into University and basically the fate of the rest of my life. I will be competing with 100k others tudents.
How do people in your country enter university/college?
I have national finals in 40 days that determine my entry into University and basically the fate of the rest of my life...
Caleb Gonzalez
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Kevin Lewis
>he wants to continue school(jail ) for other years, he thinks he will finally become a normie, poor kid.
Just face reality and embrace who you are
Josiah Harris
There's no alternative to attending university and having decent-tier education unless you have rich parents or some other form of livelihood that will guarantee you a relatively comfortable life.
Jaxson Sullivan
you need Varg in your life
Charles Ward
Don't you get to try again next year?
Leo Nguyen
Sounds like the hunger games. Why does a test dictate everything? Anybody here can go to college
Jacob Bell
The same way and I won. Git gud
Isaiah Morgan
>go to the website of the uni
>enter my data and upload all the things needed
>wait until 1st October
>be a student
Henry Jackson
well you can and it's less stressful but in Greece education is free only on paper. Basically 99,9% of students who enter University go to cram school (afternoon lessons) to prepare them for the finals. I'd say the cheapest of them cost 300 euros per month and some pay more than 600/700 a month, especially if you want to have them private.
Those prices equate more than 3500 euros per year minimum and having private universities with a tuition fee of that would not only be economically viable and enforce competition, but also offer higher quality services.
Brandon Moore
I got a good SAT score and extracurriculars so I was able to easily get into a state school with a 30% acceptance rate and average entrance GPA of 3.8 despite my own being 3.3.
Dylan Hall
really? not even basic entry exams?
David Wright
>how to enter
I go in there someday
Say what career I want
Fill the registration
Done
>No exam
>Free
Lincoln Lee
Not him, but I think it depends on the subject and the university.
they'll also decide who they are taking based on the grades you got on your highschool diploma.
Mason Gray
You prove to qualify for studying by passing the A-Level-examination (Abitur). Sometimes your school grades are important for deciding wether you recieve a place, however, not in my case (math and physics)
Jaxon Johnson
It used to be half the grades of your high school diploma and half the grades of the finals here, but now it's 100% finals unless you are a european/national medalist in some sport or have some sort of learning difficulty or disabillity (like 1% of the population overall)
that basically means that school is an absolute waste of time since grades there matter very little and the quality (and quantity) of teaching is lower than that of cram schools.
Zachary Wright
Seems wonderful, for me i have two options:
A. Have perfect score in literally every single high school course you take for 3 consecutive years, i failed that since i am out of highschool.
B. Score higher than 99.5% of the population on a twice a year national entry test
Other than that there are 0 ways to get into Uni for anything worthwhile
Blake Ross
Can't you just pirate some books and study with them instead of paying cram school?
We live in a globalized world and you can read english. Americans probably already made books on the subject you need.
John Roberts
so like here, basically? Aren't your unis free?
Parker Moore
i took the compulsory exams: math, estonian, first foreign language (english in my case). plus two elective exams. i took three: biology, chemistry, physics.
based on the results you get an aggregate on every curricula. in my case it was 50% math, 25% estonian, 25% the best result from a natural schience. for me that was biology.
then you do a couple of clicks in the nationwide studying information system and you go to university. for free.
Jacob Lopez
Same here. Only Grandes Écoles have entrance exams.
Samuel Perry
It's free to apply, but material, living etc costs, so it still costs you money.
Kevin Bailey
We have the HSC (high school certificate) here, which is final exams of all your subjecta. How well do it them determines your overall ATAR (Australian tertiary admission rank). These rank is scaled for harder/easier subjects and what school you went to and the other students marks (black magic maths).
You apply to uni courses before you do the HSC I think. Then universities send out acceptance letters.
It's bullshit though, I wish I could go back in time and go to Tafe (trade school thing)
Landon Watson
no certificate to prove you learned it.
Leo Fisher
That's only the case for university courses, unfortunately. I don't know how to phrase this correctly but there are "secret" pieces of the lessons which are useful for the finals that you only get taught in cram school and the books don't include them. Also, you get tested on 3-4 lessons that are 100% based on the select book, so our Biology book which is from 2003-4 has some outdated (and sometimes even outright wrong) stuff that you have to learn nonetheless.
I think the perfect system would be not very demanding finals (so no cram school needed for the most part) and small amount of tuition fees (like 3000 euros, like bulgaria or some shit). Also, include a minimum amount of ECTS points for each semester so bad students who are in medical school don't continue.