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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am British, now living in the U.SA  but graduated from University of London(Queen Mary College)

Can someone who has studied at both  USA high school and UK university,  please speak on their experience going from multchoice type questions (my USA kids mainly have multiple choice style questions for schoolwork at US public school) -vs- the essay style questions UK uni's use at end of year course exams (no multiple choice allowed).

Was it easy to make the transition in the two assessment styles?[/quote]

I went to HS in the US and ended up at LSE to study Econ. It all depends on what kind of high school your kids go to. I was blessed to have been able to go to an elite private school in the Dallas area. I did not have ONE multiple choice test while I was there. It was very rigorous and it prepared me very well for LSE. My English and Asian friends in my first year similar stereotypical view of Americans, thinking I was going to crash and burn…as most Brits assume the typical HS education in the US is below par….maybe it is. But I graduated with a first from LSE and have been in the PE industry now for 2 decades back in the US. My son is now at Oxford studying Economics. He went to the same high school….no issues at all with rigor at Oxford.[/quote]

I went to a top private US school (never had a multiple choice test except SAT and part of the AP exams - what are you talking about??), a top ten US college, and then did a master's at LSE.

LSE was the easiest school I went to. I had a few 3 to 5 page essays throughout the year, but most of them did not count towards my grades (one class did).

Then at the end of the year I had three exams for three classes and had to write a 10,000 word dissertation.

I had the entire summer to write the dissertation, which was the length of a paper I would write undergrad all the time, like in a seminar class.

The exams were cake. I say this as someone who is not particularly great at exams.

We had, I think, something like 15 weeks of classes. Each week covered one topic. On the exam, you had to answer three essay questions. But there were a dozen questions, one for 12 weeks/topics (3 topics/weeks would not make it onto the exam). And you only had to answer three! So the strategy was to learn four topics/weeks really really well. Hope that three of those show up on the exam, but in case they don't, learn two other topics/weeks somewhat well. Then learn one or two other topics a little bit, enough not to fail. The exams were three hours and you were expected to fill maybe one exam book per question, if that.

It was SOO much easier and less work than my US high school and my private liberal arts college.

You have to be pretty independent and learn most of the stuff on your own.

If your kid is going to an American high school where they are primarily tested in multiple choice, you need to get them the heck out of that school or into harder classes or dual enrollment or something. That's pathetic. Even AP exams have essays. I had zero multiple choice exams in high school other than SAT and parts of the APs.[/quote]

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