ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A Kurdish student from Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia state gained the highest university entrance score at her school last month. She was enrolled at a medical college.
“I was able to get a score of 0.8 in high school, which is one of the highest scores in German. As a result, I was enrolled at a medical college,” Lilaw Hussein told Rudaw on Friday, referring to the Abitur degree - the highest German school leaving qualification.
In Germany, the grading system ranges from 1.0 to 5.0, with the former equivalent to A+.
Students are required to obtain a decent score of Abitur to be eligible to study at German universities. The degree is widely recognized internationally.
Hussein, 18, was studying at the Gymnasium Leopoldinum - the oldest school in Detmold.
She was born in Germany but is originally from the Kurdish city of Afrin in northern Syria.
“I want to become a doctor and help patients,” she told Rudaw in a fluent Kurdish dialect of Kurmanji.
She thanked her parents for helping her throughout her studies.
Hussein called on Kurdish students living abroad to aim for high scores in order to make Kurds proud.
“I was able to get a score of 0.8 in high school, which is one of the highest scores in German. As a result, I was enrolled at a medical college,” Lilaw Hussein told Rudaw on Friday, referring to the Abitur degree - the highest German school leaving qualification.
In Germany, the grading system ranges from 1.0 to 5.0, with the former equivalent to A+.
Students are required to obtain a decent score of Abitur to be eligible to study at German universities. The degree is widely recognized internationally.
Hussein, 18, was studying at the Gymnasium Leopoldinum - the oldest school in Detmold.
She was born in Germany but is originally from the Kurdish city of Afrin in northern Syria.
“I want to become a doctor and help patients,” she told Rudaw in a fluent Kurdish dialect of Kurmanji.
She thanked her parents for helping her throughout her studies.
Hussein called on Kurdish students living abroad to aim for high scores in order to make Kurds proud.
Hemn Abdulla contributed to this article.
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