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  • noun Alternative form of Abitur.

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Examples

  • In Gottingen there was only a privately endowed school which prepared girls for the "abitur", the entrance examination for the university.

    Maria Goeppert-Mayer - Autobiography 1964

  • U haz teh “Buddy Christ” frawm “Dogma” az UR abitur; kewel!

    David Cop-a-Feel - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Once he had received the abitur (an examination taken at age 19 or 20, at the end of the gymnasium period), he was free to wander from school to school, to attend classes as he chose, and to take examinations whenever he felt prepared, and to try again if he failed.

    ACADEMIC FREEDOM DAVID FELLMAN 1968

  • I finally took the abitur examination in Hannover in 1924, being examined by teachers I had never seen in my life.

    Maria Goeppert-Mayer - Autobiography 1964

  • Quite a few engineers I know never went to gymnasium, they took the alternative path to an adult abitur.

    Toytown Germany - Germany feed 2008

  • They protested for more permanent staff, smaller classes, and against a sped-up version of the school leaving exam, called the "turbo-abitur".

    Greenman's Occasional Organ 2008

  • Quite a few engineers I know never went to gymnasium, they took the alternative path to an adult abitur. hmm ...

    Toytown Germany - Germany feed 2008

  • Quite a few engineers I know never went to gymnasium, they took the alternative path to an adult abitur.

    Toytown Germany - Germany feed thunder_eg 2008

  • The international schools require a test of sorts to get in, but they don't offer an abitur (the bacheloriate (sp?) degree won't let them go to a bavarian university - unless they have changed that) - so if you are staying here, they might be better off with a realschulabschluss and the foz or something?

    Toytown Germany - Germany feed 2008

  • And part of the problem is when we as parents make them feel like that is the case if they don't go to gymnasium - and get the abitur (not everyone who leaves gymnasium has an abitur, some leave earlier with a mittlere reife).

    Toytown Germany - Germany feed 2008

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