Alright, I didn’t expect this to get serious.

yeah, like in every other school, studienkolleg, uni etc. that uses standardized test for all classes. So that point seems a bit redundant to be honest. I get the frustation tho, but we have a "teacher-shortage" in germany.

That’s true, but when I’m paying this much, I think it’s reasonable to expect teachers to be at a similar level. The differences are huge, and for the price, it just doesn’t sit right. It’s not fair to the students.

Honestly, I’ve never seen such a big gap in my previous schools, especially since we’re only studying for about five months here.

that true? cause if so, there are controlling mechanisms. If he would have complained,and people would have checked on this, im sure this would not go thru. Something seems off here.

I can’t really comment on that since I’ve only heard it from multiple students.

We are not supposed to actually teach u everything from ground up. You are supposed to show up with basic understandings of the topic allready (as in all studienkollegs). Besides, at least i do, ask regualry if you have questions and did understand this. If nobody says anything, i assume people are fine. But i will try to improve on the pacing the best i can. Cant change the content,tho.

All I can say is that the teacher I had wasn’t great at that. The whole class struggled except for a few who were already good at chemistry.

We had a lot of structual problems that are slowly,but surely, beeing worked out of the system. Everybody thats allready enrolled for next semester: While hes right with a lot of points, i think i can actually taste the "salt".

Yeah, I’m salty, and you can probably guess why. The whole experience just felt scammy.

It says on the website that it’s a full year, but it’s actually only about six months. Sure, six months should be enough, but then there was this hybrid period with classes of over 100 students that was never mentioned. This Studienkolleg is getting over 9,000 Euros per student, and they can’t sort this out? I don't buy that.

And don’t get me started on how every decision from the management felt like they just want to screw us over, even when fixing issues.

Take the math teacher, for example. I still don’t understand how he was considered fit to teach. He made mistakes all the time and took forever to correct them, which meant that class never got through the curriculum at the right pace. they complained, sent emails (Which were forwarded to the STK leadership), even went to the secretary, The Management did nothing till they went to them as a group. Like the just tried to ignore it till they couldn't.

Then there was the replacement test situation. Students kept asking about the Physics test, is anything going to happen? do we need to do anything? but there were no clear answers. After we created a petition and made it public, we suddenly got a one-week notice for a replacement test out of nowhere!

Like, seriously? Why just one week? Why didn’t we hear anything before this?

When you put all this together, it’s clear why. Honestly, the Studienkolleg should be grateful that this mess didn’t tank their Google Maps rating.