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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.
この高校は単位制だ。
This high school uses a credit system.
単位制の学校では時間割を自分で組む。
At a credit-system school you build your own timetable.
単位制では必要な単位をそろえれば卒業できる。
Under the credit system you can graduate once you have all the required credits.
Contrasts with the 学年制 (year-group system), in which students are promoted by grade level. Common at universities and at credit-system high schools.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 単位制高校: a credit-system high school
- 単位制を採用する: to adopt a credit system
- 単位を取る: to earn credits