light violet
Hi! I have tried searching this online but I honestly don't know where to search or what to search. In Spain, your university entrance grade is 60% an average of your 11th and 12th class grades and 40% the actual abitur or "ebau". I was wondering if when applying to a German university a similar criteria would apply or if only my abitur grades count. (In Spain the abitur is out of 14 points with 10 points being four compulsory subjects and the other 4 points being voluntary subjects.)
#Numerus Clausus Calculations with Spanish University Entrance Exam
wooden cypress
In Germany, only the Abitur grade average is used for university entry, but it is calculated differently. It's quite complicated. Only grades from the last two school years and the Abitur exam grades are used, but which subjects are counted and which don't and how they are weighed is a bit of dark magic most students don't even try to figure out. And since the school regulations differ from state to state, I would doubt the way the result is computed is consistent for all the states...
When I did my Abitur (some ~10 years ago) and in my state, it worked something like this (so I might not remember correctly):
- You have four "main" subjects when you would have Abitur exams; 2 subjects with of advanced courses and two subjects of basic courses. Those for subjects are always counted.
- You have a few other compulsory subjects/subject groups. Some of them always count, some only count always if they are in your specialisation (where you take an extra basic course from one of three subject groups). The rest of subjects is used to fill up the number of grades until some minimum number of subjects is filled, starting from your top grade.
- The grade points (from 0 worst to 15 best) are multiplied by some factors. 1 for the first of the two years, 2 for the first half of the second year, 3 for the second half of the second year or something like that, 4 for the Abitur exam grades... I think there was also a factor for the advanced classes, but I forgot. The adjusted points then are all added up. This is your total points.
- Your total points are compared to a table of all possible sums of total points; this table yields your Abitur grade average.
But don't quote me on any of that - it has been 10 years.