Every time I see this I have to wonder where this person got these grade boundaries from. That's not the UK grading system. We don't even have a set grading system, it changes from subject to subject
Yeah, the boundaries every year in every subject. Like this must have been a really hard exam; most exams you need over 90 to get an A*. They decide them depending on how well all the candidates did. If almost everyone got over fifty, that's probably not going to be more than a C x
That's fake. We don't even have + or - grades. Are these to percentages? We don't use that. They count the marks and look at the boundaries for our grades. Like in English, I was doing coursework and full marks was 40, in a maths test it was 65. It changes all the time. You can't just look at it and know the boundaries bc sometimes they're changed and its easier or harder to get a higher grade.
This is why I get confused because I transferred from the American School system to the British and they are completely different. In the UK, the system for middle school, or Key Stage 3, is levels. They base what you're expected to get at the end if year 9 (eigth grade) by where you were at the end of Primary School. The levels go up to 8, which is normally equivalent to an A* in GCSE. In Humanities, based on what your target is, you decide what level you want to achieve in your assessment and you complete the assessment to that standard. In Music, Art, Drama, IT and DT, you are marked in how well you perform and if it meets the criteria for a certain level. In Math and Science, your grade is based in your test marks. I would say that they are more generous with levels, for instance, if you get what would be considered a D in America, you may have a high level 6 or a low level 7, which may meet your target, so you would be achieving what you were meant to.
I remember getting many different tests back with 3-4 mistakes, and only scoring an B.. Cos the teachers at my school thought zero mistakes = A.
So I left school with a mixture of C & Bs despite studying really hard.
My husband got really good grades in school compared to me. (Different school) According to him, just turning up in class gave you a C.. I don't doubt him at all. We got the same english grade, and were I speak and read it fluently, he understands 60% and speaks it really badly..
Grade Percentage
A 90% - 100%
B 80% - 89%
C 70% - 79%
D 60% - 69%
F 59% and below
That's for average high schools in America. For honor roll classes it may be different, but only a few schools do that.
Is it really like that in the states?! Canada is so different ! At least B.C is..
A. 86% - 100%
B. 73% - 85%
C+.67% - 72%
C. 60% - 66%
C-. 50% - 59%
F. Anything below 49%
And in most cases if you get a 49.5 - 49.9 they round you up to 50% to pass you. This was how my highschool worked.
We don't even have GPA's. We have pieces of coursework and/or one final exam that makes up all of our grade. The grade boundaries differ depending on how candidates did on the exam/coursework, so in this example, most students would've got about 38-49 marks. I don't know why the plus and minus grades are even on there; we don't have them either x
So I left school with a mixture of C & Bs despite studying really hard.
My husband got really good grades in school compared to me. (Different school) According to him, just turning up in class gave you a C.. I don't doubt him at all. We got the same english grade, and were I speak and read it fluently, he understands 60% and speaks it really badly..
A 90% - 100%
B 80% - 89%
C 70% - 79%
D 60% - 69%
F 59% and below
That's for average high schools in America. For honor roll classes it may be different, but only a few schools do that.
A. 86% - 100%
B. 73% - 85%
C+.67% - 72%
C. 60% - 66%
C-. 50% - 59%
F. Anything below 49%
And in most cases if you get a 49.5 - 49.9 they round you up to 50% to pass you. This was how my highschool worked.