Fuck AI

Sorry, I wasn't quite clear.

The "points" are the grade. An exam might have 40 possible "exam points" and depending on your result you get a certain number of "grade points". Usually it was 50% to pass, but this percentage may change depending on the exam's difficulty.

But still, why would you even have this gigantic set of unused scores in your system? You seem to have a very limited range to determine how well someone did but a huge range to determine how awful someone did. Shouldn't the difference between a score of 80 and 90 be roughly as much as the difference between 20 and 30?

And there is no oral exam - a better translation would be participation grade. Basically: Do you listen to the teacher and engage with the content or are you ignoring everything, skipping class and obviously not doing your homework? This is a rather subjective grade the teacher decides upon during the course of the semester though it's usually fair. They are trained for this after all. If you don't do your homework in the beginning of thr semester but start doing it later on, this will be appropriately reflected in your grade.

Additionally, the written grade (average of all exams - there are usually one or two, sometimes with a few easier tests inbetween) factors into your score at least as much as your oral grade. For math, it's usually a factor of 2:1, for languages it's usually 1:1.

But 10 tests sounds insane for me. We only had that for langauge subjects where there were at most 10 vocabulary tests over the course of a semester whose average score was worth as much as at most one exam. The exams are more difficult and there were either one or two per semester per subject.

Although this is not representative of the entirety of Germany since education is left to the states with limited involvement of the federal government.