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  2. Academic quarter (year division) - Wikipedia

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    This quarter system was adopted by the oldest universities in the English-speaking world (Oxford, founded circa 1096, [1] and Cambridge, founded circa 1209 [2]). Over time, Cambridge dropped Trinity Term and renamed Hilary Term to Lent Term, and Oxford also dropped the original Trinity Term and renamed Easter Term as Trinity Term, thus establishing the three-term academic "quarter" year widely ...

  3. Academic term - Wikipedia

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    Semester 1: From 1 September to late January or early February. Semester 2: From late January or early February to late June. Until 2011, the summer break ended on August 31, but in 2011 Israeli ministry of education decided to shorten the summer break by one week and the break now ends on August 26 as of 2012.

  4. Course credit - Wikipedia

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    A semester or trimester hour must include at least 30 clock hours of instruction; and; A quarter hour must include at least 20 clock hours of instruction. For courses that are not required to use the conversion between credit hours and clock hours, a further definition is given in the Federal Student Aid Handbook of: [16]

  5. Carnegie Unit and Student Hour - Wikipedia

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    Cooke established the collegiate Student Hour as "an hour of lecture, of lab work, or of recitation room work, for a single pupil" [3] per week (1/5 of the Carnegie Unit's 5-hour week), during a single semester (or 15 weeks, 1/2 of the Carnegie Unit's 30-week period). (The Student Hour would technically be 1/10 of the Carnegie Unit: 1/5 hour ...

  6. Talk:Academic term - Wikipedia

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    Quarter and trimester are different names for the same system. --Spoon! 11:47, 8 March 2008 (UTC) It depends on whether what comes out of it are semester or quarter units. NU uses a very odd system. 45 units to graduate (each course is a one unit course).

  7. Academic year - Wikipedia

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    In Singapore, there are four school terms. Terms 1 and 2 are referred to as Semester 1, as terms 3 and 4 are referred to as Semester 2. Each term consists of ten school weeks. Term 1 starts the day immediately after New Year's Day. If the first school day is a Thursday or a Friday, it is not counted as a school week.

  8. Trimester - Wikipedia

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    Trimester or Trimestre may refer to: Academic term , a trimester system divides the academic year into three terms Trimester (pregnancy) in humans, where the time of pregnancy is divided into three terms of 13 weeks to refer to the fetus's development

  9. G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology - Wikipedia

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    The university shifted from a trimester to a semester system in the 1980s to reduce the workload on students. [34] There are 200–210 net instructional days per year, which is highest in India.There is continuous evaluation system in semester through well known Hourlies i.e One hour exam (two in each semester) besides final examination at the ...