Whats the difference in Quarter and Semester?

Question

Whats the difference in Quarter and Semester?

Answer 1

there are for quarters in a school year and there are 2 semesters in a school year.

Answer 2

There are 4 quarters in a year of school. The summer quarter usually is a little shorter. Administrators think they can pack a semester of learning into a quarter. There are three semesters in a year(if your school has a summer semester). As a student, if you can pick things up quickly, go for the school with the quarters. It might be a little more expensive but you will finish a little quicker.

Answer 3

quarter 1/4 year, semester usually 1/2 school year\

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Answer 4

semester is half of the school year, or two grading periods.. and a quarter is just one grading period.

Answer 5

Semester means between the end of summer and the beginning of the following summer, there are two grading periods. Quarter means over the whole year there are 4 grading periods-one of these is summer, so in a normal school year there are only 3 quarters

A lot of people say Semesters are too long, but they allow the course material to be presented over a more spread out period.

Quarters allow you to fit more classes into a year and you change schedule more often, but everything is fit into a shorter period so the class moves faster.  

Answer 6

quarter is half a semester and semester is half a school year