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posted by [identity profile] kashmera.livejournal.com at 01:42pm on 21/05/2003
That is scary...to think I'd only have got a 'D' in the US...
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Differences

posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 01:57pm on 21/05/2003
Only based on percentage, and percentages are based on how challenging exams and the like are. Instructors write tests in order to produce an appropriate assessment with regard to the system its administered in. You could equally call this grade inflation for the US, and a reflection of the UK system being more rigorous, and needing to use lower percentages to maintain a reasonable and fair grade distribution. Good students are still good students regardless of the system.

Somehow, I don't think you'd've been a D student.
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Re: Differences

posted by [identity profile] kashmera.livejournal.com at 02:08pm on 21/05/2003
The idea that perhaps it was easier to get higher percentages in the US occured to me, especially as only 2 or 3 people in my year got a first, and at least 1 of them only scraped it.

I wonder what those in the UK who cry out about the education system 'dumbing down' qualifications would think of the comparison...but then I suppose adding in different grades for the higher percentages makes up for it.
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Re: Differences

posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 02:15pm on 21/05/2003
Oh yes. I would say it's easier to have an A-average in the US and Canada than it is to get a first in the UK.

Hmm. This reminders me. I should add GPAs (Grade Point Averages) to the scale so you can have yet more information to puzzle over. It's another system used by US universities and high schools and things to calculate grades.
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