Originally posted by Thorny Rose:
I identify more with being thorny than I do with being rosy... ehehe
Ain't that the truth!
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quoteNo, your field of study is not chosen for you. You make your choices, but you also have to be able to measure up.The way my father told me the story (he is also a product of the Turkish educational system, and an engineer too), I was under the impression that you take some sort of general "university test" and then your field of study is chosen for you.
quoteCertainly. In the older days, “barriers” were fixed. You took your exam, then the scores were announced, and you would go to see what you could attend, following what schools had posted on their notice boards. Even before that, you took each school’s exams separately. This was troublesome, as there would be two exams the same date, sometimes in different cities according to universities.Perhaps this is the way it was in his time. Has the system changed within the past 30, 40 years?
Our current system has eliminated all these problems. (It has also prevented specific political factions [fundamentalists, Grey Wolves, communists, etc.] from grouping in certain schools – there is no end to what means those creeps [professors sympathizing with those] will resort to and abuse their powers – choosing students for their political inclinations rather than their aptitudes.) Additionally, you are able to code in 24 schools – 18 4-year programmes and 6 two-year – on a sheet you bring with you to the place where you take your test, and you hand that in with the answer sheet at the end of the exam. Your choices are entirely up to you. You can pick different departments from the same school or the same field of study from different schools (I did the former – the latter is for idealists What a sadist.
However, if your cousin had registered into chemical engineering AND taken the test again, he would have been in a very disadvantageous situation, because the coefficient with which our cumulative high school grades are multiplied with goes from a “virgin’s” 0.6 down to 0.4 – or maybe even down to 0.25 (not sure) – that’s just another rule (penalty) – and not having the time to concentrate and prepare with school on the side. This way, he is on the safe side (but putting up with the same torture yet another year – taking those courses again – toppling mountains of books of multiple-choice tests – yuck).
Some of this stuff has been changed the year after we had our turn. I think now they wait for the results and THEN code their choices according to the results, guesstimating what they can measure up for – not that such ever came as a surprise. Actually, I like that idea. Also, we used to take two exams – one eliminated about half those who took the test – the other placed those who could get in somewheres. Now, it is only one (and thus too very risky – we of our “generation” would faint and go bananas on the first and be calmer with the second – “This is no big deal after all!” etc.).
Anyway, that shit is the past for me. No need to bother knowing what they do. Oh no... I have a brother who will be due for such in about three years and a half. Who is going to explain the kid’s situation (year-long stress from following the house-school-courses-home triangle almost everyday) for my parents and give them advice on how to handle it? But then, they probably have some experience from me.
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