November 20th, 2008, 10:40 pm
Of course. Escher, my math is pretty good, it's just that I only got Passed in a "big" course.Here's the grade system:MVG - 100 % of Maximum GPA, gives 20 points.VG - 75 %, 15 points.G - 50 %, 10 points. My overall GPA is likely to be 17,3 - pretty high. Plus I am taking a course overload, so I'm going to graduate after two years instead of three - only 1/1000 students manage to do that, so actually I'm kind of an elite student. I'm good at studying. I "finished" all high school math courses before I had even began studying at high school, the problem was that I was not allowed to do the exams. I was allowed to read and do all the tasks in the textbooks, but not the exams (why? Bureacracy). Not even one student every year (probably not one every fifth year) manages to study math at that speed. I was finished with the last course in June 2007, and I went to high school in august. Well, my surprisingly low math grades is only my fault - I started doing the exams in september that year, but it had been a long while since I had done Math A, so I had forgot a lot of it. I ended up getting about 80 % right on the exam - a strong VG, in other words. Math B was a hard course, I'm not disappointed with that result. The real problem came when I was going to do the exam to Math C - I did it one week before summer vacation started (this year in May), and the reason I wanted to do it then wasn't because I was prepared - I wanted to have it done before the summer so I didn't have to think about it. Since it was the end of the year, I had many other exams at the same time, so I told myself that I would do great on the exam even if I didn't repeated as much as I should have done (I didn't ignore it, but there's a lot of things to remember). Well, a strong G, close to VG... but still a G. Now, my last exam was in the beginning of October. I got VG, as expected. I'm sure I'm going to get VG, possibly MVG, on next course - a course named "Mathematics extension", where you simply choose an area of math and deepen your knowledge in that area (in my case, probability theory). Another thing you should know is that all courses aren't worth the same. Math A and C is worth 100 points, while B and Discrete (the last course I finished) are worth 50. When you calculate your GPA in this case you take: 100 x 15 + 50 x 15 + 100 x 10 + 50 x 15 / 300 = 13,3 = 66,5 % of maximum. Now, if only Math ABC is required and other courses are counted if favorable for the student, my GPA will end up being 13,6 (counting with VG in math Extension). I'm afraid I'll only get G in D and E, so they wouldn't be counted (although I hope for VG in at least one of them). I know the requirements are meant to protect me, but at the same time I personally know that I can do this. It should also be noted that all Swedish universities require a G in Mathematics C for admission to programs in economics and finance./John G