Heartbreaking Simpsons Moments 1/∞: Bart Gets an FI never understood why it’s an F if he gets more than half out of 100? Unless it’s more than 100. If you get more than half the answers right how is it an F?
You must not be from America. Here, grading is fucked up.
Average American Grading Scale:
A+- 97-100
A – 94-96
A- – 90-93
B- 80-89
C- 70-79
D- 60-69
F- 59 and underAnd in some places in America it goes by a 7 point scale, so it’d be
A – 100-93
B – 92-85
C – 84-78
D – 77-70
F – 69 and belowNow you understand why American kid’s feel like there’s no point to school. If you have a 100 question text, and get 79 of them correct, that’s a C. That mean’s your Average Intelligence on this particular subject. And it get’s even worse when you have only like… a 10 question quiz. If you get two wrong? that’s a B. 80 fucking %. Now tell me again why American school’s are easier?
No wait but whats the grading system in other countries?
UK Grading Scale
100-70: A
69-60: B
59-50: C
49-40: D
Below 40: F
next time you try to tell americans that we’re stupid
i’m gonna remind you
that our “average” is your “A”
#is that true?
Yep I was shocked when I heard this in a different post but a Google search pulls up a ton of sites backing this up.
Shit son I woulda passed College Algebra with an A in the UK. And I spent the end of the semester in perpetual fear that I would fail and have to retake the class.And basically as an American you’re expected to get 80 or higher. Technically 70s are considered ‘average’ but there is such a level of pressure to get a B or higher, that Cs have become equal to Ds. Basically anything under 60 you might as well gotten a 0, and anything between 60-80 is considered practically failing. So basically schools have to be designed to make sure majority of students are getting 80s or higher on specific topics, which means you’re spending all your time going over a few choice facts a billion times and there is very little room to teach anything else. Which explains why American schools are of such low quality. The insane demand on the students ends up wrecking their education. Not only do you not have time to teach them anything, but they end up hating learning. Even outside of school your life is dedicated to memorizing these few dumb facts because your homework ends up taking hours of your time. A teacher from one subject says they expect you to spend 2 hours every night on their homework. And if you’re studying 5 subjects and they all demand that 2 hours? Good fucking luck, because if you don’t have straight all 80s or higher you’re not getting into a good college and college degrees have somehow become the minimum requirement for getting jobs.
I spent most of my junior year of high school in a state of constant panic that I was going to get a C in Honors Physics much less fail the class. If I got a C on my report card, I was grounded until the next one. I lost count of the times I’d wake up at five in the morning to take the early bus to go in for zero hour before school actually started for the day
File this under the exact reason so many Americans detest going to school.
also it fucks over teachers, most of whom are paid based on test grades and general student competence. shit, neither I nor my teachers would worry ever on that UK grading scale. I’d have straight As across the board for every year of high school.
BUT THE ENGLISH “SYSTEM” IS WRONG
For the majority of my time in a graded system that uses letters – like the one above (GCSE’s and A levels) – this is a more accurate system:
90% – A* (when available)
80% – A
70% – B
60% – C
50% – D
Less tends to be a U.This is then adjusted for the specific exam taken, so some years there’ll be 4 marks between each grade on a 75 mark paper, and 88% for an A; but the next year will be more lenient and only 75% for an A (because everyone did really badly).
But yeah American school sounds Terrible.
yes! it tends to curve out at the same places, particularly on more subjective subjects, and then the exam board calls whatever the highest point of the curve is a C (or whatever the average mark is meant to be) and work out from there so the right percentages of students get each grade.
the first uk system mentioned is (more or less but not always) the university cut off points (which aren’t given letter grades but still). Other than on multiple choice tests if you’ve got in the 80s you’ve probably done something astounding and 75 is a fairly usual top mark.
you can do a maths exam get all the answers right and you’ll probably still score 70-80 because you’re working is not perfect.
When people come back from study abraod their marks are adusted (up or down) based on the instituations marking criteria.
american students getting 90% would be getting 70s in this countries for the same work, its more to do with how mark schemes work
fearlessstateofmind backup 