I’ve taken a lot of math and never had an oral test… is this extra credit work?
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And then amazingly “ya’ll” has a plural of “all ya’ll”
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I had no idea about this.
I have heard that the university I attend is famous internationally and considered one of the best in Europe (haven’t cared to check personally, it wouldn’t have influenced my decision for logistic reasons anyway). But it’s not an easy one.
The first day we got to the presentation of our courses, the lecturer showed us some statistics. Computer science lasts 3 years at my university, but the percentage of people graduating in only 3 years was between 1-3%!
Also, the percentage of people graduating at all, within 5 years, was still less than the percentage of people who dropped out overall.
One thing for sure, it’s not easy business. But it’s so damn interesting and I’m sure it will make me more complete and better at the job I want to do.
Nope. Actually, most exams work like this here, in that there’s a written and oral part.
This particular exam is made up of:
- A multiple choice test (worth 10 points)
- A written test (worth 20 points)
- An optional oral test you can use to increase your final grade.
The maximum score you can get in any exam in Italy is 30. Your grade is the sum of part (1) and (2), after which you may choose to take the oral exam. However, you choose not to, and your grade was greater than 26, it is automatically lowered to 26. Hence, 26 is the most you can score without doing the oral test.
Of course, if you aim for a higher score (which I am, now that I already have 8 points secured from the multiple choice test and I can try and improve upon it without risking to lose them if I want to), the oral becomes mandatory.
At the oral test you are usually asked for proofs of theorems and possibly to find counterexamples if you take some of the hypotheses away from them. It’s more theoretical stuff, at a higher level conceptually, as if you already passed the written part then it means you can definitely do the practical stuff.
One little addendum for context on something I’ve heard about some US universities where apparently grades are given on a curve: that’s not a thing here. Each score is independent of each other. If you even mention that, they’ll look funny at you.
I was making a joke… 
Oral is slang for fellatio.
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I grew up with “youse”.
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Oh, right.
I feel we must have had a similar conversation in the past (or was it not you), where I mentioned oral exams because that’s what they’re called in Italian, and someone told me “spoken exam” is more common in English.
I’ve had a lot of patience shown to me by people on these boards as I fumble my way through. I feel like I should return the favour
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One of my favourite phrases. And not a bad song, although probably not to your tastes.
By chance, did you have an uncle that “knows a guy”?
LOL! Chinatown is right next to Little Italy in NYC.
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“You shouldn’t do your first steroid cycle if you don’t even know how to train”
“Hah! Joke’s on you chump: this isn’t my first cycle”
Oh this f**king hobby…
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Lifting is life, bro.
LIFE.
It was definitely a ‘shaking my head’ moment.
Oh, the Irony. (and not the Alanis Morissette kind of irony either…)
My confession: I am a hyooge Alanis Morissette fan.
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He’s got steroids DOWN bro - just doesn’t really know what a bro split is, and now I wanna start a gym called the bro split training division.
My fucking brain melted reading that…
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@ChongLordUno regarding your good news…
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Pizza strikes again, after a whole day without pizza.
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I wonder if it’s possible to have a deadlift that’s double my squat. Can I get that good at deads while continuing to suck that bad at squats? I’ll have to deadlift 550-600 lbs while not improving at all on squats. One of those is very possible. 
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I know for me it is. At one point my bench was 60 pounds more than my max back squat.
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Just blow out an ACL.