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Originally posted by dimm_coder
Simon, this is some questions about education of Europe countries. And at the same time, some my answers for comparison.
What are the list of requirements for beginning of education at the University?
For my country you must have:
- certificate of secondary education (school);
- U must deliver some exams to specified University;
- Then, if U've got average evaluation by exams > then average evaluation for all abiturients which had the same exams like U, U become a student.
Usually there are 3 exams. For ex: mathematic, physic, language for technical university. I read that abiturients has exams only in former USSR republics and Israel (nothing strange, there are half part of country from former USSR :) ), but that other countries haven't any enter exams, only average evalution from school attestat is required.
All you need in Belgium is a certificate of secondary education and a some of money. This is around 450$/year or around 75$/year if you have a grant. For some studies like civil engineer you do need to pass some math exams, but they simplified it as it scared many students. Whether or not this helps is another question. :rolleyes: For studying medicin and dentist you also need to pass exams if I'm correct, but more on biology and physics.
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Originally posted by dimm_coder
Next is about education process.
I read that students of Europe and American Universities can choose most part of subjects for studing by self?
For my country. We have 2 semesters per year. We have fixing number of subjects for study (we cannot choose). Every semester we must take an examination session (5 exams for me) "attestation" by every subject before session.
We get mark for exams (2..5).
2 - unsatisfactorily, ... , 5 - excellent. Are U have it to?
Ok, it is enough for beginning.
In some studies you can choose a number of subjects yourself, but in some others this is rather neglectable. I think on average the number of subjects you can choose is lower than 20%. But I can ofcourse only speak for the studies I know of. Depending on the university you can have a semester system (I had this) or a system where you do all your exams at the end of the year (I don't like this). The marks are on 20, 12 is passed completely, 10 is failed and between 10-12 it is possible you have to do this subject again in a second examination period (re-examinations) if some conditions are met, e.g. failing on a number of other subjects. But the rules on this are rather complex and continuously changing.