Question:
i was wondering how the grade system works in the us...and how my grades
would compare to us standards.
in the netherlands you get marks out of ten...this is calculated by
subtracting points from the maximum of ten for every mistake you make...e.g.
if you can get 50 points on an exam and you get two questions wrong...both
worth 2 points you get 46 out of 50 which leads to a grade of 9.2 out of
ten....a grade like that is exceptionally high for a dutch test..especially
sincde many of the questions in tests require an argumented long answer and
you will soon lose a querter or half a point in missing some little detail.
our tests do not consist of mere facts..there's a lot of deduction to be
done. in maths you do not get full points if soem part of you calculation
is missing..even if your answer is right.
you graduate with honours if your average grade 7,5 or over.
we take 7 or 8 subjects and the final grades are calculated over the final
exam as well as three school tests you've done (most of them in my school
were more difficult than the state finals) as well as listening excercises
for foreign languages and oral exams for foreign languages. grades are
rounded off to round numbers ( no numbers after the comma, 7,49=7, 7,51=8)
my grades were
dutch: 8
english: 9
french: 9
math (alpha): 8
economics: 9
business class: 8
latin: 8
to what scores would this translate in the usa? is a nine like an a or
something??? or do you work with percentiles?
i'm confused because a friend of mine took american SAT's after graduating
from a dutch high school, and they were really easu to her....she scored
really well (even on the verbal though she is dutch!!) and immediately got a
merits based scholarship to take marine biology at charleston south
carolina...i knwo that may not be a top league school (i actually don't knwo
whether it's a good school or not) but it made me wonder whethger i woudl
stand a chance applying to an american university.
my grades and subjects in my first three semesters at university are
10 introduction to english linguistics and syntax
9 introduction to literature studies
9 english language acquisition part two (writing skills, fluency,.
pronunciation and public speaking)
8 introduction to comparative language studies
8 english literature overview
8 english language acquistion part one (writing skills, grammar, idiom,
cultural studies, pronunciation and fluency)
8 philology; middle english language literature and culture
8 english literature: renaissance
7.5 linguistics: phonetics of english and dutch, syntax continued
8 english literature; augustans to romantics
8.5 philology; old enlish language and literature
8.5 language acquisition part three: achieving near native speaker fluency
and pronunciation
9 old frisian language and culture part one
in the course of my fourth and fifth semester i will be taking further
classes in old english and old frisian, modernist and post modernist english
literature, american literature and cultural studies, phonology
(linguistics) and writing skills. after semester five iw ill start
specialising adn in semester 8 i will graduate and get my MA hopefully on
the subject of american culture and literature studies.
do stand a chance to get into a grad programme or a research project or even
an undergraduate programme on american studies or something in that region
of interest at a good university after i graduate? i might get a good
scholarship from a dutch organisation if i keep my gades up where they are
buit it is really hard work and i'm trying really hard but i'm noit sure
whether i will be able to keep this up another two and a half years...
but if i do...do i stand a chance to be admitted? or maybe even get a
scholarship or a fund?
Answer:
Your grades sound terrific. If you can do research with a well known Dutch
professor, that might be your best entry into the American grad school
system.In what subject do you want to do a graduate degree? By the way, you
might want to change your e-mail address!
Margaret
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