IUB/Jacobs help!

Student Lounge International Students
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<p>I got this email from Jacobs.

[quote]
Your 10th grade results, your AS and A-Level results are external examination results.
We would like to see a document which shows your grades for all subjects taken in your school. </p>

<p>Doesn't your school have its own grading system for its students? Is the document issued about the external examinations the only one that is issued by your school?

[/quote]

The transcript sent by my school was like this

[quote]
Grade 10[Indian Board-CBSE]
Maths 56(C)
English 87(A)
Hindi 51(C)
Social Science 68(C)
Information Technology 94(A)
Science 83(A)</p>

<p>Grade 11[A-levels]*
Physics A
Chemistry A
Maths A</p>

<p>Grade 12[A-levels]*
Physics A
Chemistry A
Maths A</p>

<ul>
<li>Predicted/Trials

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</li>
</ul>

<p>Anyone has a idea what this means?</p>

2

<p>They want the grades you may have earned in high-school in classes, not only from these examinations</p>

3

<p>But doesn't that means Predicted grades?</p>

4

<p>Um, I'm not familiar with your school's system, but don't you take classes, where teachers grade you? Or are all the grades they give you the predicted grades for the examinations?</p>

5

<p>I am in British curriculum, we have exams to prepare us for Official A levels. They are called Trials/Mocks/Internals/Pre-Boards. Predicted grades are dependent on those.</p>

6

<p>I think they are confused because you followed two systems - the indian before and the british afterwards. As for you A level transcripts - that seems fine -- i sent the same grades. </p>

<p>I think you should write to them explaining your transcript. They might be using different methods to evaluate students from different academic backgrounds and they might be confused in your case.</p>

7

<p>Ok, Thanks waleed and negru! I have mailed them explaining the grading system in my school.</p>

8

<p>A Levels are BS.... the Indian ISCE system is the best to be prepared so the science majors at Jacobs Univ.</p>

9

<p>If you are talking about merc, then ISC didn't helped him as much as his interest in computers.</p>

<p>Nevertheless, I did both(A levels and CBSE. Not ISCE, although) and both suck(:D)</p>

10

<p>ISCE did help him... i know it did....he knows all the basic of the stuff covered here.... other issues complicated his academic life...</p>

11

<p>Actually almost every indian for scince or engineering major is preparing either for IIT-JEE or AIEEE or both for local college entrance in India. The point is that these both exams require like a quiet high level of PCM knowledge, that helps, not ISCE. I am from ISC and have 97.1% , and I know its useless mugging up business. Won't help much until you prepare for IIT-JEE, which has a concept based syllabus.</p>