Oh my God, so many comments on Germany. I am in Netherlands. I don't know how I am going to answer all these questions. Alexa, can you help me? I can help you with specific questions. Like, how do I connect Bluetooth? To learn more about what I can do, take a look at the things that you have got in the Alexa app. Do you know anything about education in Germany? The responsibility for the education system in Germany lies primarily with the states. While the federal government plays a minor role, optional kindergarten. A few moments later, Sorry, Alexa, stop. This compulsory. Alexa, stop. Very, very, throughout. Stop. I don't think these digital assistants can ever replace a human. So, I guess you would need someone to guide you personally instead of relying on this crap digital assistance. Tada! For newcomers, I'm Sambit Pradesh. I do all these videos on studying and living in Netherlands. And apart from that, slowly I'm expanding to Europe. So, I thought, like, why not introduce my friend who is in Germany and he's from RWTH Akin. And I guess I'll leave the intro to him so he can introduce himself and then we'll talk about different topics related to study and living in Germany. Hi guys! I'm Atulanan as Sambit has already introduced me and I did my bachelor's from NIT Rautkila and most of you guys are Indian, I guess. So, you can relate with me a lot better. I'm doing my master's in metallurgical engineering at RWTH Akin and so I'm here to help Sambit with all the queries regarding studying in Germany. Okay. And how long have you been doing master's in Germany? It's been a year already. I am about to complete my second semester now. Like in September, I will be completing one year. Okay. Okay. So, let's move on. So, we have decided to make five short videos because it's a very huge topic and we cannot cover them in one single video. So, we will be talking about the admission system, the education system, the life, how is the life in Germany and the biggest question which I also get from the subscribers from Netherlands is about the requirement of German language and student assistantships. So, these are the five different topics and we'll be making five short videos. So, all these videos will be differently placed and you can find them everywhere. So, let's move on to the first topic that is the admission requirement that you have for masters in RWTH Akin Germany because he's doing an RWTH Akin and as I was discussing with him off the camera that the admission requirement varies from regional to regional. Yes. Yes. From university to university. Okay. So, that's why we are only focusing on his experience in masters in RWTH Akin. So, first we can start with something like which most people ask like the English language requirement in the GRE like TOEFL or IELTS and GRE. So, what would you say about that? Like you can continue with other requirements also like. Yes. Yes. Like first the main thing is the English language requirements like there are two kinds of courses at RWTH. There are some German taught courses and English taught courses and I'm first focusing on English taught courses because my courses English taught. You need IELTS score of minimum 6.5 and if you are appearing for TOEFL you need a minimum of 100. Okay. I think that is the same here also and TOEFL I think here there are 90 as many on cut off and IELTS is same 6.5. Yes. And that too varies from course to course. Like for my course this was the requirement. Okay. But like for some other courses that may be higher all lower it varies. And regarding GRE like not all the courses require GRE like my course is in metallurgical engineering it did not require GRE when I had applied but they are changing the requirements these days like this year I heard that they have introduced GRE for masters in metallurgical engineering as well and some popular courses like automotive engineering and others they require GRE. Okay. So it varies from also from course to course even in the same university. Yes. Yes. Even in the same university it varies. And what about the like the GPA and previous experience? Yes. Yes. GPA I would not strictly say that you need a like really a very high GPA but like a decent GPA like I am talking something relevant to students in India it should be above 8.5 or something like. On a scale of 10 as we have in on a scale of 10. And I don't really believe like in converting it to the German system because that conversion scale is not as effective as we think. And what is the scale in Germany is it like it's like 1 to 4 and 1 being the highest. Okay. Oh. Okay. That's very confusing. Like in the US they have 4 is the highest. Yeah. But in Germany I know about the US and I also I mean in Netherlands it's very same to India like you have a 10 scale. Yes. But it's very strange. Yes. It's actually strange. It was very strange for me when I first came in. So if you are near one then twins you are really good. Yes. Okay. One is the highest. One is equivalent to 10 in India. Yeah. Yes. Okay. And so yeah, GPA I would say a decent GPA of 8.5 and above is good. Like GPA acts as a time breaker. Like there are a lot of activities. So it's like a cut off. If you are above that then it's fine. Yes. If you have too much also that doesn't matter. Yes. That much in the admission is the whole thing. Yes. Yes. And the I mean speaking from Indian perspective does the university also play a role like suppose you are from NIT or IIT or your state universities. Yes. Like I would say if you are applying for some courses which are not very popular like these days the more more number of Indian students are coming courses are becoming more and more popular. So the competition is increasing. Okay. So with that the college comes into role. Like if you would ask me the same question like three to four years before then I would say it doesn't matter. Okay. But nowadays if like so many students are applying and they have to take limited students they also consider which college are reform and sometimes like your brand name of the bachelor's the college in which you did your bachelor's counts. Okay. Okay. Yes. Okay. And regarding the main thing the language is like. Yes. I would first talk about the experience like yes it will be work experience work experience. Yes. Like for some courses that also varies like if you are going into a very practical based course like automotive or example or like computer science. Okay. So in that those cases work experience adds value to your application. Okay. Yes. So yeah I understand because in CS especially I know like if you have like a software developer or something and you have developed some apps or some prototypes or some kind of products. Yes. And you have made use of them in industry or something then so maybe it's the case in automotive. Yes. Yes. And if your course is very research based then it is good if you have done some previous projects. Okay. You call it those add value to application. Okay. And it depends on how much competition it is in that year. That's true. I think every year it is increasing a lot. Yes. Yes. Because in Netherlands also I've seen like especially for computer science when I came into the year 15 there was not that much competition but in the last year some people applied in February and although the application was open till April. Yeah. But it was already filled because they return the application fees for most students because they had already like 1.5 times of their intake. That's a thing that some will not come. Yes. That's really. Yes. Okay. And regarding language language I would say if your course requirement in the website if the course requirement doesn't mention anything about language you actually don't need German language. Okay. You don't need German language to do the course to pass the exams. Okay. But that doesn't mean you don't need German in Germany. Okay. Yeah. I mean we will go to that point in another video in life in German. Yes. Exactly. We are going to discuss in more details about that. But yes. If you're asking like while studying in college if they claim that you only need English you actually only need English. That's good. Yes. And any specific websites that they should refer will put in the description below. Yes. And anything comes to mind because as far as I know with my limited knowledge I think Dad is a good place to start like the AADS. Yes. And we'll leave the links in the description below. Yes. So do you know anything else or will we'll go to the next video. Okay. Okay. So we'll put it in the description and talking about the need of German in Germany we'll discuss it in the next video. So do watch the next video if you want to know about it in details.