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Originally Posted by Katia
unfortunately it's not as simple as getting straight A's.
duhh! it's easy if you're determined and study before an exam. But an A isn't gonna get you a high enough enter score...
look at it this way. Every subject is out of 50 points over all per year. Everything 39 (out of 50) and above is an A+ only 20% overall students can get above that (50 out of 50 is 0.2 percent of students)
you battle against each other, not getting a good grade at that point. A 39 is a low A+ and it's not gonna get you into Osaka uni you need to be in your 40's in all subjects, which means medium to high A+ on every outcome, every exam, test etc. Without exception for an entire year.
That's not something you can study for the night before I'm afraid. So a consistant determination is required.
ciao
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Are you serious about the points thing? I know a dude that got into Cambridge University (which btw is harder than Osaka), with simply B's and C's. The university look to invest in people that can offer them something special because getting good grades is too easy and to be honest isn't that important... It only proves that you can study from a book and take exams. It doesn't show them if you have ambition, or the fire to study something that YOU want to do etc.
How do you think they choose between people that all have A+'s? (and if you read what I wrote to the guy, I told him to basically get good grades and offer something else that makes him special.)
Also, speak for yourself. I (and many of my friends) have never had a problem getting from 85-100% in my exams from two days of revision. What you need to understand is that most exam's these days are all about exam technique. You'll know this by simply looking at previous exam papers. Most are very very similar and if you do and learn 2 or 3, you're guranteed a pass, and if you learn your course and do several exam papers, you can easily get A+'s.
Also, when I say straite A's, I'm talking about the grading system where A is the highest grade. ie, there is no A+.