Ja, ja!

May 19, 2010 10:55 AM

Swedish translation help?

What do the following paragraphs say? Google translate is not really helping in this case.

Studievägskoden skall kompletteras med en siffra I sista positionen, vilken anger elevens studiekurs enligt följande:
0 – fullständig studiekurs med betyg I samtliga obligatoriska ämnen och med marketingen Deltagit I ämne eller aktivitet, där sådan markering skall ges.
Elev som befriats ett ämne eller aktivitet hänförs till denna grupp om förutsättningarna är uppfyllda I övriga ämnen.
2 - fullständig studiekurs men utan betyg I ett eller flera obligatoriska ämnen eller utan markeringen Deltagit I ett ämne eller I en aktivitet, där sådan markering skall ges.

Thanks!

posted by halogen to Grab Bag (2 answers total)

Best answer: This is in a kind of bureaucratic Swedish, which is a bit hard to parse even for us Swedes sometimes... I would guess it is from some old internal university rules rather than instructions for students. A quick close translation:

"Studievägskoden" (study path code?) shall be supplemented with a number in the last position, which indicates the students study course accordingly:

0 - complete study course with grades in all compulsory subjects and with the mark "Participated" in the subject or activity, where such mark should be given.

Student who have been released from a subject or activity is assigned to this group if the prerequisites are fulfilled in other subjects.

2 - complete study course but without grades in one or more compulsory subjects or without the mark "Participated" in the subject or activity, where such mark should be given.


In more plain language: add a 0 or a 2 to the end of the code. 0 if the student has gotten a grade or participated in all compulsory parts of the course, 2 otherwise. If a student didn't have to do all parts (and therefore not have a grade in one part), use 0.
posted by rpn at 11:55 AM on May 19, 2010

Ah, googling some terms I see that this is from old high school grades. Basically a 2 as the last digit in the number after a grade (1-5 in the old system where this text seems to be used) means the student didn't finish all parts, 0 means it's all good.

Have the same text in my old high school grade diploma, but never read it :).
posted by rpn at 11:59 AM on May 19, 2010