Help suggest some US schools for son's largely foreign list

tamagotchi
Fri, 15 Jul 2022 20:52:32 +0000

Thanks for your help! I really appreciate all the information we can get about the education system in the UK.

Now that my son has visited, he is only considering the unis located in large cities (London, Edinburgh, Glasgow); we have already ruled out St Andrews.

For each course of study that my son is considering, we have been looking for detailed information about the list of modules, topics studied in each module, and the way in which students are evaluated. I expected that the grading schemes would heavily emphasize final year-end exams (as you state), but I was surprised to see that when we looked closely at the details, we are seeing a lot of variety in the grading schemes listed for each module. Some are listed as being graded on primarily “coursework” or “group project” without any exam listed at all, while other modules are listed as having most of the grade based on the final exam. Am I misreading the information posted… is it actually all based on year-end exams, even when the modules specifically list grading based on “coursework” or “group project”?