[schnitzelstoat]

> and partly to copy the US/UK ways

In the UK it's common for exams to have almost all of the weight. In my Physics degree almost all courses were entirely dependent on the exams.

Including a final exam which examined the entire four-year MPhys course known as General Problems where even getting 30% was considered a good grade!

[Al-Khwarizmi]

We were told otherwise, but it might have been propaganda as well. There was a lot of blatant indoctrination to push that reform.