Entrance to British universities is rather strict selection process? based on an interview. If students don't get the grades, specified in the offer, a place cannot be taken up. Some universities as Oxford and Cambridge have an entrance exam before the interview stage. As for American universities, students who want to study at a college or university have to take a standardized test, e.g. the SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) or the ACT (American College Test). Students from other countries outside the US must take the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)
2. What are the three types of schools in higher education?
As far as I know, there are graduate school, separate professional schools such as a medical school or a law school.
2. What are the three types of schools in higher education?
As far as I know, there are graduate school, separate professional schools such as a medical school or a law school.
3. What degrees are offered by schools of higher learning in the USA/Britain? What are the requirements for these degrees?
In Britain a first degree, which is usually an honours degree, generally takes three years. Most courses end with exams called finals. Results are given as classes (= grades): a first is the highest class, seconds are often split between upper second and lower second, and below that is a third. Graduates may add the letters BA (Bachelor of Arts) or BSc (Bachelor of Science) after their name. Some graduates go on to study for a further degree, often a master’s degree or a doctorate.
In the USA students are given grades at the end of each course. The highest grade is A; the lowest is F, which means that the student has failed the course and will not get credit for taking it. To check a student’s overall progress, the university calculates a grade point average (GPA). Students who finish their degree with a high GPA may be awarded Latin honours, of which the highest is summa cum laude.
4. What is a credit in the US system of higher education? How many credits must an undergraduate student earn to receive a bachelor’s degree? How can they be earned?
A student has to earn a certain number of "credits" (about 120) in order to receive a degree at the end of four years of college. Credits are earned by attending lectures or laboratory classes and completing assignments and examinations.Students are given grades at the end of each course. The highest grade is A; the lowest is F, which means that the student has failed the course and will not get credit for taking it. To check a student’s overall progress, the university calculates a grade point average (GPA).
5. What steps do students have to take to enroll in a college/university for admission? Speak about the exams they take – PSAT, SAT, ACT.
American high school students who want to take to enroll in a college or university for admission have to take a standardized test, e.g. the SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) or the ACT (American College Test). Each college or university decides on the minimum score it will accept, though test scores are never the only factor taken into account.
6. What financial assistance are applicants eligible for? What is college scholarship, grants, loan? Explain and bring out the essence of student financial aid?
Students whose families cannot afford to pay the full amount apply for financial aid, receive a financial aid package which may be a combination of grants from the government, a scholarship, a student loan and work-study( a part-time job at the college).
7. What is a GPA (Grade Point Average)?
To check a student's overall progress, the university calculates a grade point average(GPA). Students who finish their degree with a high GPA may be awarded Latin honours.
8. What is the role of a student’s counselor? Specify the function of career development and job placement within a university.
Student counselors, also called guidance counselors, are professionals who help students at the high school or college level
A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government. Private universities are universities not operated by governments, although many receive tax breaks, public student loans, and grants.
11. What is an undergraduate student? A graduate student?
An undergrad student is one who hasn't graduate yet from a college. In college, working on a 4-year degree, their first year they are call Freshmen; the 2nd year, Sophomores; the 3rd year Juniors, and their 4th Seniors. All of those are "undergrads," which is short for "undergraduates." After they get a degree, later, if they stay in school to work on an advanced amount, then they're called graduate students. Undergraduate study is the 4 year term in which you study for your Bachelor's amount. A graduate student is someone who has their Bachelor's degree and is moving on to pursue their Master's level or PhD. Anyone who does not posses a Bachelor's degree but is pursuing one is an undergrad student.
A graduate student- a student who is studying for a degree that is higher than the one received after four years of study at a college or university.
12. Are you for written or oral examinations? Which ones are more objective?
Oral examinations are rather complicted that written papers. They presupose inevitable necessity to face the examiners, to speak to them openly and even to answer their additional questions. Sometimes students may simply stumble through the exam because of their nervousness and anxiety. That is why I considere that written exams are more objective and are popular with the stydents.
13. What examinations (oral or written) are more popular with Russian students? Describe the psychological types of students of your group.
As you know, every student has his own point of view. Some choose written exam in the hope for cheating. Others prefer to speak face to face with their examiners and prove that they know well a given material or even they would like to go to the mat. To my way of thinking, written examinations are rather popular in Russia then written papers. You have not to worry, to nerve unlike viva exams.
14 Would you like to study in the USA or Great Britain? Why? Why not? What are the requirements for foreign students to study in the USA or Great Britain?
Well, to be honest, it s a brilliant idea to study abroad. There is always BUT. Firstly, you have to work harder, harder, harder to achieve their aim. Secondly, all depends on parents' income, because you are young and as a rule don't have a job to earn yourself for study. On the other hand it would be unfair to depend completely on parents.
Students from countries outside the US who are not native speakers of English must also take the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language).
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