In Sweden when you enter high school you first have to chose what type of a program you are going to go to. First you have to decide if you want to study a major of sciences or social studies. There is also the option to focus on other subjects like languages, computers, restaurant and hotel management, business, economics and even majors in understanding and preparation on how to run your own company etc. etc.<\/p>\n
There is also a sort of reward system of merits. The Swedish government wants Swedish students to study higher levels of maths than they do at the moment, and studying languages beyond stage 3 also gives merit points. Studying languages at the lowest level (beginners level) is level 1. Level 7 is the highest, and that should have prepared you and supposedly steered you a fair way down the path to fluency.<\/p>\n
When you apply to university in Sweden you do not take an exam for a specific university or program, you just use your final grades from high school. The highest score you can get is 20.0 points or credits. Although with the full merit amount included, you can gain another extra 2.5 points making the highest score a student can graduate with 22.5 points. The years when there are especially many applicants for the most popular programs (Medicine, Law along with Hairdressing school and Veterinarian school) it becomes very hard to get into those programs. The most popular years the only people who could really compete for those programs were the people with 22,5 points, and even then that wasn\u2019t a guarantee that you would get in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In Sweden when you enter high school you first have to chose what type of a program you are going to go to. First you have to decide if you want to study a major of sciences or social studies. There is also the option to focus on other subjects like languages, computers, restaurant and…<\/p>\n