Question:
Are students given alot of exams at college? Do class/lecture exams
primarily determine their final grades?
Are they given exams as frequently as in high school?
Do all colleges share similar,if not same,exam policies?
Lastly,how can you transfer out? What are the transfer procedures? And
when can they be processed?
Answer:
Generally you should expect to take many fewer exams, each of which counts
much more than in college. It's not uncommon (at least in social sciences
and humanities) to have a course with, say, 2 midterms and a final or even
just a single midterm and a final.
As to what determines grades, this will vary from discipline to discipline.
In English it'll likely be a lot of weight on papers and the rest on one or
two tests. In a math class, on 2 - 4 tests and several problem sets.
In my experience they vary from discipline to discipline and not
college to college -- English courses will look more or less the
same at most schools, as will poli-sci courses, as will chem
courses, but English and poli-sci and chem courses are likely
to be very different at the same school.
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