Welcome to the Department of Italian in Trinity College Dublin. We are a friendly and small department where we hope you will feel at home. You are joining a historic Department. We have one of the oldest traditions in Italian studies in the world. Italian has been taught here since 1776. Some very significant people have studied Italian in. List of Free Online Italian Courses and Lessons. Learn Italian with these free online courses and lessons. See the full list of free Italian courses, learn what's covered and find the course that.

Want to learn Italian for FREE? Here’s how:. Our online material for learning Italian is organised in, which you can access at any time.

There are downloadable checklists for each level, so you can monitor your progress. The thousands of pages on this website are also organised by type:, &. You’ll find clickable icons in the website header. by signing up to our mailing list. You’ll get articles about learning Italian each Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Plus occasional promotions.

Unsure where to begin? Read about how to learn Italian, and this, and/or do theNeed help?. We have a!. Or just go ahead and email your question (the address is at the bottom of each page). Still stuck? Well, how about some? Teachers do have their uses.

There are two grading systems used in Italy:

To someone familiar with both the Italian and the U.S. college systems, Italian grades are best translated into American grades (and vice versa) according to the following table:

Scuola primaria, scuola secondaria di primo e secondo grado[edit]

In Italian primary and secondary school a 10-point scale is used, 6 being the minimum grade for passing.

Traditionally in the most prestigious high schools (Liceo Classico, Liceo Scientifico and Liceo Linguistico), grades vary within a limited range, between 2 and 8, often with each professor applying his/her own custom. When a professor wants to apply a more precise scale, instead of using the full 1–10 scale (which would have made their scale not comparable with that of other professors) they would often insert a plethora of symbols and decimals: the range between 5 and 6 would then be covered, in sequence, by 5+, 5½ and 6−. Sufficiency starts at 6. The '+' symbol stands for '+0.25' (5+=5.25) and the '-' symbol stands for '-0.25' (6-=5.75). Some professors, however, also use symbols such as 5++, 5/6 and 6--, which have no precise value. There has been a push in recent years to uniform the system to the 0–10 scale. A grade below 6 is considered insufficient, while a grade below 4 is considered to be extremely insufficient.

In high school, if a student, at the end of the year, reports an insufficient grade average in a certain subject (5 or below), he or she has to take a reparatory exam in September, before school begins; if the result of the reparatory exam is again not sufficient, the student cannot pass to the next year and will have to repeat it. A student who, at the end of the year, has more than 3 insufficient subjected will not pass to following class and will have to repeat the year. This is anyway subject to the judgment of professors, who can evaluate what to do according to the case.

University[edit]

For ordinary exams, universities in Italy use a 30-point scale that can be divided into failing (0 to 17) and passing (18 to 30 cum laude) grades. For final assessment of the entire degree, a 110-point scale is used, which is divided into two as well, with 66 being the minimum for a degree to be awarded. The 110-point scale incorporates scores both on course exams and for the final thesis. For outstanding results, lode,Fallout new vegas crash after leaving doc mitchell. 'praise' or 'cum laude,' is added to the maximum grade.

References[edit]

• 'Grading System in Italy'. ClassBase. Retrieved 22 February 2014.