#grading systems

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.

Understanding Global Grading Systems: What Every Student Should Know

(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. 

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.