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I really liked the old German university concept, the one before we just took over Bachelor/Master. Throughout my CS studies, I was just collecting "tickets" (
by anyfoo 1y ago
I really liked the old German university concept, the one before we just took over Bachelor/Master.
Throughout my CS studies, I was just collecting "tickets" (very hard to translate the actual word, "Schein"), which basically just attested that you have passed a course. They (often) had a grade on it, but it did not matter. Instead, once in the middle ("pre-diploma") and once at the very end of your time at university, you'd have oral exams. And those determined your grade. To attend them, you needed the right combination of "tickets".
The glaring downside of this system is that if you had a bad time in those few months of your very final exams, you could screw up your entire grade.
The upside of it, is that I was free (and encouraged) to pursue whatever I wanted, without each course risking to have an effect on my "GPA". I had way more tickets than I needed in the end, and still time and energy to pursue whatever else I wanted (playing with microcontrollers etc.).
- klysm 1y agoI had a couple of classes in USA uni that worked quite similarly. The professor said we can take the quizzes if we want, and if we didn't then the later quizzes would constitute more of your grade. The ultimate play was to only take the final quiz.
- cherryteastain 1y ago> The ultimate play was to only take the final quiz. This is how a lot of British undergrad courses ('modules') work. One giant exam at the very end determining everything; no quizzes, no problem sheets, no midterms.
- xen2xen1 1y agoWould not be a surprise if AI brought this back.
- eru 1y ago> Throughout my CS studies, I was just collecting "tickets" (very hard to translate the actual word, "Schein"), which basically just attested that you have passed a course. They (often) had a grade on it, but it did not matter. Instead, once in the middle ("pre-diploma") and once at the very end of your time at university, you'd have oral exams. And those determined your grade. To attend them, you needed the right combination of "tickets". What you are describing was one of the systems they used. So at my university (OvG in Magdeburg) they used this system for math, but computer science had written exams.