Did your school ever have a grade "E"

[Captain Pancake]

In primary school, you had grades going up to F, being the best. It was quite confusing.

what's quite odd, is the grades go up from A to F in primary learning, switch to numbers for a few years, from 7 to 1, then switch to letters going down for the alst two years, from F to A.

 

[Good morning blues]

In Canada, while your in elementary you get A,B,C,D and R. Anyone who gets an R is gonna be staying for another year...

Education is under provincial jurisdiction, so this is specific to whatever province you went to school in. In BC, the options were A, B, C+, C, C-, I, and F. I stood for incomplete; it was basically F, except it didn't turn into an F unless you were still in I territory at the end of the school year.

Now I go to Simon Fraser University, where we get A+, A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C-, D (maybe with pluses and minuses? I dunno, I've never had a D), F, and FD, which is new. FD is just a little extra "fuck you" if you fail for academic dishonesty.

 

[Go Fighting In The War Room]

In Canada, while your in elementary you get A,B,C,D and R. Anyone who gets an R is gonna be staying for another year...

Education is under provincial jurisdiction, so this is specific to whatever province you went to school in. In BC, the options were A, B, C+, C, C-, I, and F. I stood for incomplete; it was basically F, except it didn't turn into an F unless you were still in I territory at the end of the school year.

Now I go to Simon Fraser University, where we get A+, A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C-, D (maybe with pluses and minuses? I dunno, I've never had a D), F, and FD, which is new. FD is just a little extra "fuck you" if you fail for academic dishonesty.

Oh, well I'm in Ontario. All I knew was that was the grading system until percentage in High School, and assumed, that was the country's grading system.

 

[Sonicron]

Hm, we didn't have letters but numbers where I went to school, but I think they're equivalent.
We had 1 through 6, with 1 being best and 6 worst (like A to F). E would equal 5.

1: Very good.
2: Good.
3: Alright.
4: Enough to pass, but pretty bad.
5: Not enough to pass.
6: Worst possible.

I think the difference between 5 and 6 was as to how you could balance them out with better grades in other subjects. But don't ask me how exactly, it's been so long ago...

Yeah, I remember... I think two 6's in your final report would mean you've failed and need to repeat that year of school. One 5 was still acceptable, two 5's could be balanced out by either one 2 or two 3's in the major subjects.

 

[Blazing Steel]

My school has an Es:

A*,A,B,C,D,E,F,G,U

I have no idea what E means because it sure doesn't mean excellent.

(I'm English btw)

I think it would be...

A*: Excellent
A: Very Good
B: Good / Above Average
C: Average
D: Below Average
E: Poor
F: Bad
G: Very Bad
U: Good Luck Finding Work

I think U is for 15% and below on your test. If you don't show up for the test you get 0 insted of a letter.

 

[Kasawd]

In Canada, while your in elementary you get A,B,C,D and R. Anyone who gets an R is gonna be staying for another year...

Our elementary skills are on percentage now, I though.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

I live in Sweden, the grading system is different. There are four grades (from bad to good): IG G, VG, MVG. If you get IG, you fail. G, you pass. VG, you pass good. MVG, you're awesome. I don't know how it is in comparison to normal grading, but I think that IG is F, G is D, VG is between C and B, and MVG is like B+.

 

[Kasawd]

You also have a system that uses F, P, C, D and HD.

Fail, Pass, Credit, Distinction and High Distinction.
-50%, 50%+, 65%+, 75%+ and 85%+ respectively.

Yeah, we have this. It's a damned effective system, in my opinion.

Yes but I remember my first semester of University I saw an entire page of "P", I started to get depressed. But it really is an effective system because it works well with a GPA.

3 means you have a pass average, 4 is credit, 5 is distinction and 6 is HD. It averages it out really well so you have clear number to show off how much better you are than everyone else.

Indeed. It also allows one to do nothing but the tests and be fine!

I did that all the time and calmly explained to my sociology teacher that homework was for the people who needed to practice the theory. I did not.

 

[Christemo]

would be awesome if there was a grade Z for fail blondes.

 

[XJ-0461]

Yes.

But that's because I live in England, where the lettered grades usually go A*, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, U, with U meaning you failed.

Same here, also because I'm English.

But since when did we have a G?

 

[Nevyrmoore]

My school has an Es:

A*,A,B,C,D,E,F,G,U

I have no idea what E means because it sure doesn't mean excellent.

(I'm English btw)

I think it would be...

A*: Excellent
A: Very Good
B: Good / Above Average
C: Average
D: Below Average
E: Poor
F: Bad
G: Very Bad
U: Good Luck Finding Work

I think U is for 15% and below on your test. If you don't show up for the test you get 0 insted of a letter.

U is pretty much a no-grade. It stands for "Unclassified" and if you get it, it's not going to be on your certificates. X, on the other hand, is given if (a) you've only completed part of the course, or (b) key elements such as coursework are missing, and as such, an appropriate grade can't be given.

Not that it all matters anyway, because considering most employers look for C grades, D or below is pretty much a case of "Good Luck Finding Work".

Yes.

But that's because I live in England, where the lettered grades usually go A*, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, U, with U meaning you failed.

Same here, also because I'm English.

But since when did we have a G?

Don't know, I never got a G myself. But official documents say there's 8 passing grades, so A* - G it is.

 

[munx13]

I'm glad there is a 1-10 score in our schools, makes it much more easy.

 

[thiosk]

Our grading system here in the states is so inflated that we should just rename everything under a B to an F in order to maintain some semblance of difficulty.

 

[zerzxes]

Hm, we didn't have letters but numbers where I went to school, but I think they're equivalent.
We had 1 through 6, with 1 being best and 6 worst (like A to F). E would equal 5.

1: Very good.
2: Good.
3: Alright.
4: Enough to pass, but pretty bad.
5: Not enough to pass.
6: Worst possible.

I think the difference between 5 and 6 was as to how you could balance them out with better grades in other subjects. But don't ask me how exactly, it's been so long ago...

thats what we got.. only the opposite order 1= worst 6 = perfect

 

[El Poncho]

Well in Scotland it never makes it's mind up. During primary school and the a while in secondary school A is the lowest and F is the highest then for 2 years in secondary school it's 7 is a fail and 1 is the highest, then the last year or 2 years(if you choose to go into those years) it's F is the lowest and A is the highest. So you get an E in primary school but not in the last few years of secondary school.

 

[Mozared]

I've never fully understood the whole letter grading system. Over in my country we just mark stuff with a number of 1 to 10 with 1 being lowest. Imo that's a lot easier than giving people "A+"s or "E"s. Heck, some teachers I had even used mathematical formulas to let the mark you received depend directly on the amount of good/false answers you had given.

 

[bodyklok]

Yes, both my High School and current Sixth form have an E grade, which, incidentally, counts as a pass, barely.

The only grades lower are G and U, the latter being the greatest humiliation possible.

EDIT: LOL, 3600 posts.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Anyone who gets a "U" is to be laughed at.

I got a U once. Religious Studies, the teacher didn't like me because I asked questions...I probably could have gotten her fired for that. Go ahead, laugh.

 

[Zombie Badger]

Yes.

But that's because I live in England, where the lettered grades usually go A*, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, U, with U meaning you failed.

Well, anything below a C fails, but a U is failing miserably.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Anyone who gets a "U" is to be laughed at.

I got a U once. Religious Studies, the teacher didn't like me because I asked questions...I probably could have gotten her fired for that. Go ahead, laugh.

As you say sir. I shall laugh most heartily. And I suppose she wouldn't have - you are supposed to believe exactly what the teacher says after all.