単位制

たんいせい
noun
credit system
education
1. credit system
An educational system in which students earn credits by passing courses and graduate once they accumulate the required number, rather than advancing by fixed year-groups.
この高校(こうこう)は単位制(たんいせい)だ。
This high school uses a credit system.
単位制(たんいせい)の学校(がっこう)では時間割(じかんわり)を自分(じぶん)で組(く)む。
At a credit-system school you build your own timetable.
単位制(たんいせい)では必要(ひつよう)な単位(たんい)をそろえれば卒業(そつぎょう)できる。
Under the credit system you can graduate once you have all the required credits.

Contrasts with the 学年制(がくねんせい) (year-group system), in which students are promoted by grade level. Common at universities and at credit-system high schools.

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