UC Berkeley vs Cornell vs Cambridge (UK) [for Physics related studies]

Twoin18
Mon, 08 Apr 2024 22:42:06 +0000

There’s an exam at the end of each year on all the material covered. That’s the only grading you get. You’d have one paper for each science course and one for math, i.e. four 3 hour papers over the course of a few days (in some cases two per day, 9-12 and 2-5). The exams are challenging, there is no plug and chug like in the US, and top students will do hugely better than the average (in math, which I did, the top first scored double the lowest first and about 3-4 times the average score). But especially nowadays it’s quite hard to fail.

You do have to spend a lot of time (at least 3 weeks out of 5) studying during Christmas and Easter vacations to review everything covered in the prior term, as 8 weeks is really short.