I thought I would just do a general difference post for anyone who isn’t aware of how the education system seems to work here.
It varies a lot by subject and school, but at least for me here the differences are as follows.
There aren’t many assignments throughout the semester which contribute to your final grade. Instead there is just one assessment that consists of your whole grade.
The grading here isn’t A-F, but 1-5 with 1 being the best and 5 being the worst. Additionally it doesn’t go 1.1,1.2, but it goes in different multiples. For example, 1.0, 1.3.
Instead of meeting 2/3 times a week, we meet just once a week for a technical 2 hours, but a observed hour and a half. Many courses have a start 15 minutes late and end 15 minutes early rule. Only two of my courses here, out of 6, follow a strict adherence to the time posted in the course listing.
For some courses, attendance isn’t monitored at all, whether through a sign in, or TA’s that track it. I have a lecture which is full to capacity and there’s no way or tracking who is there or not.
The students are usually referred to by their last names, not first. This differs by the teacher with 2 courses of mine that follow this procedure.
These are just some details about the differences I have encountered at the university level.