#grading systems

[pointatthesky]

How do you guys work your grades? How do you get a sensible grade point average from a bunch of letters??? I can’t get it to make sense in my head!

Here, in Denmark, we have a seven point scale of numbers for grading. They are as follows:

-3: You didn’t even turn up for your exam, did you?

00: Okay, you’re here but… This is a math exam. We’re not interested in your understanding of German verbs. I’m sorry, but I have to fail you.

02: You’re here. You’re talking about the right things but you have it kinda backwards. No worries, though. You’re not great at this but I guess I can let you pass.

4: Well, it’s not impressive, but you’re sorta along the right lines. You pass. Have a nice life.

7: You have read your homework and you’re a pretty average student. Well done, now leave.

10: Ohh, nice. You have done your homework and you actually understood what it was about! Impressive. Here, have some niceness! I like people who aren’t dumbasses!

12: Amazing. Showstopping. Breathtaking. Brilliant. I can teach you no more. Now go. Be great. You make me so proud.

Now, each subject has a ‘weight’, because some subjects are more important than others, I guess. So you take your grade and multiply it by the weight and put that to one side while you do the same to all the other grades you’ve received. Some subjects weigh 2 and some weigh only 0.5. So you’ve multiplied all your grades by their weight, add them all up, divide by the number of grades you’ve gotten and BOOM you’ve got your grade point average as a number on the grading scale.

Because of this system, of course, there is a possibility to have a GPA that’s higher than 12. Every year one or two nerds graduate with a GPA higher than 12 and have a newspaper article written about them.

Personally my GPA from my high school levels (two-year HF) is only 4.7 which is not impressive but it’ll do for living a very average life.

STILL, HOW DO YOU CALCULATE A GPA FROM LETTERS????

[willpaul229]

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[eduoverseas]

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[thecozywhaleshark]

I hate how we base how we feel about what we have learned depending on whether you got an A or a C. What makes it worse is when they add + and - to the grade like “congratulations you got an B on that paper but only just so I’m going to remind you how close a call that was to getting a C and add a minus after that B.”

it’s so annoying and makes you feel worse than you already do.

[bxllarosee]

im literally so bad with homework. if i don’t feel like doing it, i think, “if i get a zero on this, how many 100s would it take to bring it up to a passing grade?” as it turns out, it takes five 100s of the same type of assignment to have it average out to a B. guess who’s not doing their homework tonight ayyyyy

[snufkunt]

But y'know, whatever. -- (First image: American Grading System.) (Second image: Canadian Grading System.) (Third image: The UK grading system.) (Fourth image: A comparison of the UK and the US grading systems.)

[alexander-the-adequate]

QUESTION TO ANY UK FOLLOWERS I MAY HAVE

(If you're not from the UK however, I'd appreciate it if you'd reblog this. I'd like an answer to my question. oo')

So, for those of you who don't know, the high-school grading scale in America works like this (or, at least, it did where I grew up.):

A-100-93

B-92-85

C-84-75

D-75-70

F-69 and below

In state colleges, each grade level is ten points wide, but both D's and F's (so, still all numerical grades 69 and below) are considered failing. As with everyone, it depends on the school that you attend and the teacher that you have, but the average student in the US can make mostly B's and C's without any kind of difficulty. 

Now, as I understand it, the margins in UK grading are much wider. I may be wrong, but--50 is the cut-off for failure, yes? As in, if you make a 64 on something in the UK, that would be a passing grade? If the average student here makes C's and B's (92-85)--would you consider yourselves graded more harshly than that? Your margin for error looks wider, but is it, actually?

[lanthanumradium]

I'm trying to find out more about school grading systems around the world.

I've seen several posts commenting on how the US grading scale is different or harsher than in other places, but none of them really say what the other scales ARE.

Here in the US, we use letters (A being the best and F being the worst; E isn't used). Typically 90-100% correct is an A, 80-89% is a B, 70-79% is a C, 60-69% is a D, and 59% and below is an F. In some private schools, the scale is shifted so an A is 93-100% etc. so an F is 69% and below. A, B, and C are considered passing grades.

If you live in another country or go to a school in the US where the grading scale is different, please comment with the different scale! If not, please reblog this post so more people can see it.

For SCIENCE!