So a friend of mine was having problem with math, he's like at his last year of university in the US
So I checked it out for him and... I learned that at 6 grade
I'm serious
I guess the rest of the world think Asian are so smart simply because our education (especially mathematics) is so heavy and difficult, when we do your maths, it's easy to us
It's university though. Your core shit is all basics (Algebra I, Algebra 2, and Geometry are sometimes offerings for math, US History in history, basic Spanish or French for language). The advanced classes are your curriculum classes for your major. I was in second level Latin, barely higher than what I did in 10th grade, while I was studying advanced dating techniques for fossilized or wooden remains. I take anything a foreign student coming into our curriculums with a grain of salt because the intent is so different.
My Gender Equity degree is just as important as your engineering or business degree.
Also, the US may test well below the rest of the world in math, science, geography, and other languages, but we're first in how good we *think* we are, so there's that.
It's almost as if you're criticizing us for asking "when are we going to ever use this material?"
Oh my gosh, I've never ever actually ran into someone who "chose" gender study. For real!?
I always thought it's an internet myth cause who can be that much of an idiot!!!
But it's real!
First of all, consider the US university you are visiting compared to your home university. Yes, there are different colleges for different levels. Sometimes people are really great at math not english and the reverse is also true. Colleges have to offer classes to students that may not have had the best high school background or any background in the subject at all. Secondly, international intro classes rarely translate as prerequisites for harder classes, so you have to take intro classes. That is not unique to the US. I studied abroad in Spain and a friend studied in London and we both said it was the easiest semester we ever took, mostly because they were all intro, non-major courses. Thirdly, the material in college courses is important, but the analytical and critical thinking skills you learn are more important. I consider my research experience much more valuable than any of my courses
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American. I've had History, Govt (American and Texas), Cal1, kinda Cal2, Physics, Chemistry, and (going to have) Spanish at both HS/JrHigh and College level. I guess you can also count two English classes (British and American) since I took them as Dual Credit. So even for Americans there is substantial overlap depending on what classes you took in HS and what you're majoring in.
Most of the more heavily overlapping classes were just considered to be "Easy A," freshmen classes designed to acclimate you to college and get you started with a good GPA before you start taking the stuff you have never learned before.
So I checked it out for him and... I learned that at 6 grade
I'm serious
I guess the rest of the world think Asian are so smart simply because our education (especially mathematics) is so heavy and difficult, when we do your maths, it's easy to us
Also, the US may test well below the rest of the world in math, science, geography, and other languages, but we're first in how good we *think* we are, so there's that.
It's almost as if you're criticizing us for asking "when are we going to ever use this material?"
I always thought it's an internet myth cause who can be that much of an idiot!!!
But it's real!
Most of the more heavily overlapping classes were just considered to be "Easy A," freshmen classes designed to acclimate you to college and get you started with a good GPA before you start taking the stuff you have never learned before.