IDK for Germany, since I never visited university but as far I know you can take semester so let's say your country would say you need at least 5 years in university for a specific thing (maybe to become a doctor) than you say you took 10 semester. holidays are semster-ferien (semester holidays) and these holidays are all 6 months I think, not quit sure about that, I think universities are closed during the public holidays.
Counting by this you would have holidays in summer and winter but seems to be longer in summer since I heard of people starting university when kids allready go back to school for some days allready. Like when school starts back in 1st week of August, you often hear like university starts 2nd week of September or something like that.
Most university students take their big tests to finish in spring and prepair for this for a few months depending on what their subject is about since they often need to write a crap ton of pages.
There is also a high chance that almost half of all people drops out in the first 3 weeks and some more drop out around the time when the first semester finishes.
I think there is also another form where you go to work most of the time and only visit the university on the side for a few days a month, no idea how this actually works.
down under when I studied undergrad
there were 2 semesters per year and each semester was
it was 13 weeks study
1 week study break before exams
exams
depending when one's exams finished one could have upwards of 2-4 weeks break between semesters
then repeat for semester 2
after exams in semester 2 - upwards of 2-3 months break
Display MoreIDK for Germany, since I never visited university but as far I know you can take semester so let's say your country would say you need at least 5 years in university for a specific thing (maybe to become a doctor) than you say you took 10 semester. holidays are semster-ferien (semester holidays) and these holidays are all 6 months I think, not quit sure about that, I think universities are closed during the public holidays.
Counting by this you would have holidays in summer and winter but seems to be longer in summer since I heard of people starting university when kids allready go back to school for some days allready. Like when school starts back in 1st week of August, you often hear like university starts 2nd week of September or something like that.
Most university students take their big tests to finish in spring and prepair for this for a few months depending on what their subject is about since they often need to write a crap ton of pages.
There is also a high chance that almost half of all people drops out in the first 3 weeks and some more drop out around the time when the first semester finishes.
I think there is also another form where you go to work most of the time and only visit the university on the side for a few days a month, no idea how this actually works.
what I posted above was the 2nd term of the year, I think in america they call term semesters, I'm not sure what the difference is. So my term started the 3rd week of january and it'll end in the middle of June. Then the next academic year starts in September, so we have 2 months holiday during the summer.
Do you mean that school starts in August in your country 
? When is your summer holiday?
what I posted above was the 2nd term of the year, I think in america they call term semesters, I'm not sure what the difference is. So my term started the 3rd week of january and it'll end in the middle of June. Then the next academic year starts in September, so we have 2 months holiday during the summer.
Do you mean that school starts in August in your country
Actually school depends on the Staate you are in. Some do have 5 holidays, one for easter, one for christmas, one for summer, one for autumn and one that is somewhere between christmas and summer in the spring but the staates who do the spring holiday do have a shorter christmas holiday compared to the staates who don't do that. Staates choose on their own when the year starts and ends, but for everyone summer holidays have to be 6 weeks and 3 days while the other holidays are usualy 2 weeks except if a staate does 5 holidays instead of 4 than the christmas and spring holiday are just 1 week if I'm not mistaken.
Depending on the staate holidays begin anything between June and August and end depending on it between July and September altho most staates make the holidays that you go back to school in the end of July or early to middle of August.
Most autumn holidays are often between the end of September and the end of October. Christmas holidays are allways the week where Christmas is in (unless the 24th is on a weekend than we take the next week) and end in most staates on the 6th of January unless your staate does 5 holidays than you go back to school on the 2nd of January if it is a weekday. Easter holidays are allways the week of easter sunday and the week of easter monday. No idea for the spring holiday since the staate I grew up in Germany didn't had 5 holidays.
Also school is off on public holiday-days too if the public holiday falls onto a weekday and a few times troughtout the year you may have some more days where you don't go to school like when all teachers go onto a professional deveopment or the day where all teachers meet up to discuss the grades they give to the students etc. but stuff where you don't come to school cause of your teachers are handled by each school individualy so some schools might still give classes while some teachers discuss stuff whatever.
For people who do a training for a job (example you are a trainee to become a nurse) you need to atend school 2 times a week (or which is rare sometimes you get 2 weeks of school and than a full month of just work) for 3 years in a row to help you become prepaired for the job you train in and if the school closes for whatever reason you need to go back to work instead or have to ask if you can take one of your holiday-days to take time off on that day. Also if school is on holiday and you are a trainee for a job, you don't have holidays, you just go to work in that time
BTW If you go to less thsn 6 classes of school on a day as a trainee you need to go back to your work place and work for the rest of the day
Example: Emily, 19 years old, trainee in a kitchen, she wants to become a chef. She goes to work on monday, tuesday, frieday from 9am to 1pm and from 3pm to 8pm. On Wednesday and thusday she has school. Her school on Wednesday is from 8am to 1pm and Thusday from 8am to 11:15am. Cause Thusday is a schorter school-day her boss asks her to come back at 3pm and work till 8pm
Display MoreActually school depends on the Staate you are in. Some do have 5 holidays, one for easter, one for christmas, one for summer, one for autumn and one that is somewhere between christmas and summer in the spring but the staates who do the spring holiday do have a shorter christmas holiday compared to the staates who don't do that. Staates choose on their own when the year starts and ends, but for everyone summer holidays have to be 6 weeks and 3 days while the other holidays are usualy 2 weeks except if a staate does 5 holidays instead of 4 than the christmas and spring holiday are just 1 week if I'm not mistaken.
Depending on the staate holidays begin anything between June and August and end depending on it between July and September altho most staates make the holidays that you go back to school in the end of July or early to middle of August.
Most autumn holidays are often between the end of September and the end of October. Christmas holidays are allways the week where Christmas is in (unless the 24th is on a weekend than we take the next week) and end in most staates on the 6th of January unless your staate does 5 holidays than you go back to school on the 2nd of January if it is a weekday. Easter holidays are allways the week of easter sunday and the week of easter monday. No idea for the spring holiday since the staate I grew up in Germany didn't had 5 holidays.
Also school is off on public holiday-days too if the public holiday falls onto a weekday and a few times troughtout the year you may have some more days where you don't go to school like when all teachers go onto a professional deveopment or the day where all teachers meet up to discuss the grades they give to the students etc. but stuff where you don't come to school cause of your teachers are handled by each school individualy so some schools might still give classes while some teachers discuss stuff whatever.
For people who do a training for a job (example you are a trainee to become a nurse) you need to atend school 2 times a week (or which is rare sometimes you get 2 weeks of school and than a full month of just work) for 3 years in a row to help you become prepaired for the job you train in and if the school closes for whatever reason you need to go back to work instead or have to ask if you can take one of your holiday-days to take time off on that day. Also if school is on holiday and you are a trainee for a job, you don't have holidays, you just go to work in that time
BTW If you go to less thsn 6 classes of school on a day as a trainee you need to go back to your work place and work for the rest of the day
Example: Emily, 19 years old, trainee in a kitchen, she wants to become a chef. She goes to work on monday, tuesday, frieday from 9am to 1pm and from 3pm to 8pm. On Wednesday and thusday she has school. Her school on Wednesday is from 8am to 1pm and Thusday from 8am to 11:15am. Cause Thusday is a schorter school-day her boss asks her to come back at 3pm and work till 8pm
This was a very interesting read 
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