Meaning of repetitorium | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A private class that augments a university course of studies by reviewing material, typically found in the German system.
2. private review class
3. A text written as a review of material, as opposed to one intended to introduce a topic.
4. review text

Examples

“A lecture which occupies more than one hour is always divided into two parts, by a break of a quarter of an hour in the middle, in order to prevent any weariness or inattention resulting from a long sitting. Great importance is attached to "repetitoriums," in which the ground of former lectures is glanced rapidly over, bringing out the most important points in the various subjects”

“As will be explained below, students taking repetitoria usually pay for a chunk of hours per subject and this could mean anything between DM 1,000 and 3,000 (approximately ₤1,000) per course on, say, civil law or procedural law etc. Even for those students who follow repetitoria in many courses, the overall cost is still low by comparison to British fees and infinitesimally low by comparison to American ones (though it does not seem so to the German takers).”

“These crammer institutions generally offer one-year courses which review all the materials for the examination and train participants in the art of writing exams. Law faculties also offer their own university repetitoriums although the majority of students still prefer to attend private institutions.”

“He did this because he was thinking of providing lines to dictate during a repetitorium.”

“Expressed in Professor Schrödinger's own words, it is a "repetitorium." The reader is given a rapid bird's-eye view of the subject with a few of the interesting applications strongly highlighted.”

“The interest is focused on the general procedure, and examples are dealt with as illustrations thereof. It is not a first introduction for newcomers to the subject, but rather a 'repetitorium'.”

“We emphasize that this chapter is not an introduction to differential topology, but merely a repetitorium.”

“This implies that the students possibly read other books about the topic in or outside class, including Aristotle's text, in addition to this repetitorium.”

“Students who attend university at no cost wind up spending considerable amounts of money for up to two years of Repetitorium.”

“An estimated 90 per cent of German law students complement their university studies with a private 'Repetitorium',”

“The objective of the Repetitorium is to enable doctors to refresh their knowledge of the science learned during their medical university study.”

“From the 136 pages of the book, not less than 84 are devoted to chemical physics, of which certain parts are treated elementary, while in the whole and for the reason just stated, most pharmaceutical students outside of the reach of Prof. Curtman's masterly instruction, will have to resort for this kind of instruction to more explicit textbooks, before they can derive much benefit from a Repetitorium, which in this particular, reaches above the knowledge of the average student.”

“Dorpfeld was an ardent advocate of elementary social science in the common school, and among his most extensively used school books were the little “ Repetitoriums," covering, in addition to the whole range of the natural sciences, the rudiments of psychology, government, army, the courts, minings, manufacture, transportation, and dis semination of news, commerce, church, school, public hygiene, social and political communities, unions and associations, an many other topics not usually included in any course of study.”

“The German student of the present day is perhaps as fond of the quiz-compend as his American confrere and in no country do the Repetitoria find such a large sale as in Germany or Austria-Hungary.”

“While teaching in Munich, his Repetitorium of the history of philosophy appeared.”

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