The Canadian education system is nuts. Especially at U of T. I went to a Canadian University and those years I wished I had back. We got killed at every exam and would have people crying. The averages are in the 40s and guess what.. No curve. I studied my ass off 6-8 hours a day during the weekdays and every waking second on the weekends and did pretty well... 3.9 GPA but I had no weekends and I slept 2-3 hours a night during exam time. Usually lost 10-15 lbs within 2 weeks and my mom wouldn't be able to recognize me when I came over for Christmas.
Then I go to the states for dental school. I breezed thru with all weekends off, studied like 2-3 hours whenever I felt like. Played tons of counterstrike .. At least 4 hours a day, and gonna finish dental school with a GPA of 3.9. Exam time in dental school was pretty chill. Lots of sleep and counterstrike.
The way you're evaluated in a Canadian science program is way different that it is at a US dental school. For example, if your exam is on chapters 1, 2 and 3, you would have questions from each chapter to practice on before the exam. On the exam, they make new questions combining the theory from all 3 chapters and its so abstract sometimes that it blows your mind. For my Dental school, you regurgitate. You learn about something, and they will never ever ask you a question they haven't taught you.
There is a girl at my dental school who got a 3.2 GPA at Toronto, but is now top 5 in her class.
If you're an abstract thinker and can deal with ridiculous levels of thinking to even attempt a question then Toronto would be an amazing place to be and learn.
If you want to get into dental school, drop out right now and enroll into an American school next year. Dental school don't do any grade replacements so taking them over again wont help. Salvage your career man. Get out of there.
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