Talk:Matriculation

For many years after GCE started, one of the principal exam boards was still called NUJMB - Northern Universities Joint Matriculation Board - ie the A-level exams and the still necessary O-levels in English and Maths, were explicitly provided by these exams. I think I've still got my statement of fitness to matriculate from NUJMB somewhere, even though in the end I went elsewhere :-) Linuxlad 20:20, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Exemption from Matriculation
In South Africa the Secondary School Qualification that allows you admission to Universities in the Country is called Exemption From Matriculation and the standards are set by the Joint Matriculation Board. This come from the time when universities abandoned their own matriculation exams in favour of a national qualification given after School Final Examinations.
 * Not any more they aren't. The qualification for university entrance is called Matriculation Endorsement (unless you are coming from another country to a South African university; then you need a Matriculation Exemption). The JMB was abolished in 1992; the requirements are now set by the Matriculation Board of Higher Education South Africa. (Examination standards for the Senior Certificate are managed by Umalusi.) - htonl 03:37, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

In India...
How is this related to the article at all:
 * In India, " all matriculation results have shown that girls have done better than boys. The latest HSC results show that Mumbai's girls dominate the top 15 ranks in all streams. This belies the widely held belief that boys do better in maths and science and girls in languages and the arts. The results instead show that girls have done better overall " (DNA - an Indian newspaper - on Tuesday, June 06, 2006

I removed the section for now.
 * &#9773; Zippanova  06:54, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

South Australia
During my time at school in South Australia the final year of school was normally called Matriculation. You had to do Matric to enter University. A person who entered University had to be a Matriculant. This was a statute of the University. Originally a person finished school in Year 11. Year 12 seemed to have been developed to provide a level of education in 5 subjects to pass the final examinations. The body responsible for exams was the Public Examinations Board. Around the middle of the 1980's a tertiary entrance ranking was created. Originally the Matric exams accounted for 100% of the entrance requirements for University. This was reduced to 75% and then in 1986 to 50%. The term Matric is not used by the current generation of students. Ozdaren 08:01, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Inconsistencies?
In the List of Latin Phrases in the notes for alma mater, there is a comment that "Another university term, matriculation, is also derived from mater". However, on the Matriculation page, it is said to be from matrix. I don't know which is correct, but one should be changed.


 * Matrix comes from Matris, the genative of Mater, so they are essentially both correct. SRBA

South Africa
In South Africa Matric is the final (12th) year of school. It is ended with the Matric exams, whose grades are used to determine if you can enter university or not. The highlight of the year, however, is the Matric Dance, organised by Grade 11 pupils (the Matric Dance Committee) and is a formal themed dance, held usually a week before the Finals begin. From 2008, however, the matric exams will not be in use anymore, and students will be graded using continuous assessment. Therefore, the essential part of the Matric year, and cause for worry by most 18 year olds, is no more. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Suzie-too (talk • contribs) 11:00, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Scope
What is this page actually about? As far as I can see, the introduction says it is the ceremonial act of entering a university, and it's also the exam someone needs to pass to qualify to do so. I know some countries still use a matric exam, while others (like the UK) used to but don’t anymore; wouldn't it make more sense to focus on that aspect and look at the arrangements in various countries around the world? Or at least split the article between discussing the exam and discussing the ceremony? Moonraker12 (talk) 13:14, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Bristol
I've been at Bristol since 2008 and have never heard the term 'matriculation' used. There was certainly no ceremony at the beginning of the first year. I simply went to the union, where someone from the faculty handed over my student card. That was it! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.222.14.112 (talk) 16:05, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

New section 'Special students'
I added a section on "special students" because there are a number of biographies sprinkled around Wikipedia which refer to that person attending classes at such-and-such university as a "special student" and it is not common knowledge what that means. So I am going to go into a number of those and wikilink to this section. Originally I was going write a new article on special students, but I think someone would argue it should be merged into here, so I just went ahead and did that up front. LaurentianShield (talk) 18:03, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

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Czech Republic vs. Czechia
There is disagreement over whether the section for the country should be called "Czech Republic" or "Czechia".

I argue for Czech Republic, as it is not obsolete, and seems to be preferred on the English Wikipedia (Czech Republic – discussed here). I don't see why this article should be an exception.

– Lauritz Thomsen (talk) 19:53, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

It is NOT about being obsolete. It is about consistency. The heading of "Denmark" should be "Kingdom of Denmark" by your logic. Get in the modern world and open your mind to the fact that you could be wrong!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/francistapon/2017/05/22/czechia-has-won-the-czech-republic-name-debate/ https://brnodaily.cz/2017/06/06/breaking-news/czechia-is-slowly-winning-out/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_the_Czech_Republic#Adoption_of_Czechia


 * The discussion for the Czech Republic article resulted in the decision to keep "Czech Republic". If you want to discuss that further, you should do so on Talk:Czech Republic. If you think that that decision should be overruled here, please explain why it should be different for Matriculation specifically. I understand that it's a little strange – we use the short form in Denmark too (Tjekkiet). – Lauritz Thomsen (talk) 20:26, 16 June 2019 (UTC)