repetitorium

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1. A private class that augments a university course of studies by reviewing material, typically found in the German system.

   He did this because he was thinking of providing lines to dictate during a repetitorium.

   2015, Robert R. Clewis, Reading Kant's Lectures, →ISBN, page 171

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   A lecture which occupies more than one hour is always divided into two parts, by a break of a quarter of an hour in the middle, in order to prevent any weariness or inattention resulting from a long sitting. Great importance is attached to "repetitoriums," in which the ground of former lectures is glanced rapidly over, bringing out the most important points in the various subjects

   1890, The Scottish Forestry Journal, page 248

   As will be explained below, students taking repetitoria usually pay for a chunk of hours per subject and this could mean anything between DM 1,000 and 3,000 (approximately ₤1,000) per course on, say, civil law or procedural law etc. Even for those students who follow repetitoria in many courses, the overall cost is still low by comparison to British fees and infinitesimally low by comparison to American ones (though it does not seem so to the German takers).

   2002, B. S. Markesinis, The British Contribution to the Europe of the Twenty-first Century, →ISBN, page 67

   These crammer institutions generally offer one-year courses which review all the materials for the examination and train participants in the art of writing exams. Law faculties also offer their own university repetitoriums although the majority of students still prefer to attend private institutions.

   2012, Thomas Lundmark, Charting the Divide Between Common and Civil Law, →ISBN, page 154

2. A text written as a review of material, as opposed to one intended to introduce a topic.

   We emphasize that this chapter is not an introduction to differential topology, but merely a repetitorium.

   2007, Markus Banagl, Topological Invariants of Stratified Spaces, →ISBN, page 99

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   Expressed in Professor Schrödinger's own words, it is a "repetitorium." The reader is given a rapid bird's-eye view of the subject with a few of the interesting applications strongly highlighted.

   1946, General Electric Review - Volume 49, page 66

   The interest is focused on the general procedure, and examples are dealt with as illustrations thereof. It is not a first introduction for newcomers to the subject, but rather a 'repetitorium'.

   1952, Erwin Schrödinger, Statistical Thermodynamics, page 1

   This implies that the students possibly read other books about the topic in or outside class, including Aristotle's text, in addition to this repetitorium.

   2013, Anja-Silvia Goeing, Anthony T. Grafton, Paul Michel, Collectors’ Knowledge: What Is Kept, What Is Discarded, →ISBN, page 234

plural Repetitoriums · plural Repetitoria

1. Alternative form of repetitorium.
   1. private review class

      An estimated 90 per cent of German law students complement their university studies with a private 'Repetitorium',

      2013 February, Christine E.J. Schwöbel-Patel, “I'd like to learn what hegemony means: Teaching International Law from a Critical Angle”, in Law and Method

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      Students who attend university at no cost wind up spending considerable amounts of money for up to two years of Repetitorium.

      2007, Mary Ann Glendon, Paolo G. Carozza, Michael W. Gordon, Comparative Legal Traditions: Text, Materials, and Cases on Western Law

      The objective of the Repetitorium is to enable doctors to refresh their knowledge of the science learned during their medical university study.

      2013, Edward Ruzyllo, Postgraduate Medical Studies in Kuwait, →ISBN, page 57

   2. review text

      While teaching in Munich, his Repetitorium of the history of philosophy appeared.

      2013, Gino K. Piovesana, Recent Japanese Philosophical Thought 1862-1994: A Survey, →ISBN

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      From the 136 pages of the book, not less than 84 are devoted to chemical physics, of which certain parts are treated elementary, while in the whole and for the reason just stated, most pharmaceutical students outside of the reach of Prof. Curtman's masterly instruction, will have to resort for this kind of instruction to more explicit textbooks, before they can derive much benefit from a Repetitorium, which in this particular, reaches above the knowledge of the average student.

      1886, Pharmaceutical Review - Volumes 4-5, page 24

      Dorpfeld was an ardent advocate of elementary social science in the common school, and among his most extensively used school books were the little “ Repetitoriums," covering, in addition to the whole range of the natural sciences, the rudiments of psychology, government, army, the courts, minings, manufacture, transportation, and dis semination of news, commerce, church, school, public hygiene, social and political communities, unions and associations, an many other topics not usually included in any course of study.

      1898, Herman T. Lukens, The Pedagogical Seminary - Volume 5, page 149

      The German student of the present day is perhaps as fond of the quiz-compend as his American confrere and in no country do the Repetitoria find such a large sale as in Germany or Austria-Hungary.

      1901, Merck's Archives - Volume 3, page 242