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 From:  bohman75  
 To:  Racoon     
2226.1665 In reply to 2226.1664 

ohhhh...

 

nice grades

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 From:  ANT_THOMAS  
 To:  bohman75     
2226.1666 In reply to 2226.1665 

The grade boundries are Generally

 

A* 90%
A 80%
B 70%
C 60%
D 50%
E 40%
F 30%
G 20%

 

But at his level (GCSE) I'm guessing he took all the Higher tier exams which means the Lowest actual grade you can get is usually a C and after that it is a Fail.


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 From:  bohman75  
 To:  ANT_THOMAS     
2226.1667 In reply to 2226.1666 

I see. We usually have D = around 65%. Anything lower than that is considered a fail. On the college level they sometimes distinguish a fail because of incomplete course work differently.

 

I had a professor that went to Princeton when they only gave pass or fail for grades. When he tried to do graduate work, the school he was applying for wanted actual grade letters. Not knowing what to do, he told his advisor this and he said, "well, what do you want?" He said, "A's would be nice." And that's how the transcript went out.

 

It was a conversation about how grades are over rated because every teacher will grade differently for the same work.

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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)  
 To:  bohman75     
2226.1668 In reply to 2226.1667 
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We usually have D = around 65%. Anything lower than that is considered a fail.

Yay for sensibility!

All the crap in the UK with passing at 40% and having A*s and Es and stuff is ridiculous.

I think you have better IT courses over there too?
I vaguely remember talking to someone who was at [equiv to GCSE level] in the US and learning C++ on their course - when I did IT the most advanced we got was Excel, and the coursework was barely IT-related at all. :'( 


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It was a conversation about how grades are over rated because every teacher will grade differently for the same work.

Aye, especially on a small selection of work at a single point in time.
Which is why exams and shit. And coursework is over-rated, because having just one or two projects is just the same.

But I wont go into a big huge rant on why the whole education system is utter shite, it'll just waste time and wind me up. :S 

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 From:  bohman75  
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)     
2226.1669 In reply to 2226.1668 
I don't know if our IT courses are any better. I think where ever you are in the world, you're going to find some schools have different strong points than others.
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)  
 To:  bohman75     
2226.1670 In reply to 2226.1669 
It wasn't so much the quality of the school, as the crappy syllabus, which probably at least a quarter of the schools in the country would be following.

(Dunno how things over there work, but over here we have a handful of institutions which write the exams, and essentially say "teach this, don't teach that". I think there are only three main ones, and it was one of them that told the school what the IT course should involve.)

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 From:  bohman75  
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)     
2226.1671 In reply to 2226.1670 

Is this high school level? If so, it works the same here if it's a public funded school.

 

University level is decided upon by the individual school. Even a public funded school the the new york state SUNY system.

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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)  
 To:  bohman75     
2226.1672 In reply to 2226.1671 
It's GCSE (Secondary school) level (also A-Levels (Sixth form/college) work that way) which I think is the same as High school, so yeah.
And yeah, at University level they decide on their own stuff here.

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 From:  Mike (QUIGABYTE)  
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2226.1674 In reply to 2226.1673 

(hippo) 

 

:D 

 

wtf


Did you know in 1964 34% of the male population of Scotland was born prior to the birth of Ophelia Turnbull-Archer
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 From:  SMD  
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)     
2226.1675 In reply to 2226.1668 

Fuck, don't get me started on ICT.

 

*rages*

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 From:  bohman75  
 To:  Mike (QUIGABYTE)     
2226.1676 In reply to 2226.1674 
That emoticon hippo rocks.
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 From:  Monsoir (PILOTDAN)  
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Bump
I'm going to send David Blunkett a cheese grater to read.
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 From:  bohman75  
 To:  Monsoir (PILOTDAN)     
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Bump


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 From:  SMD  
 To:  bohman75     
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Bumps the thread up on the thread list.
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 From:  bohman75  
 To:  SMD     
2226.1681 In reply to 2226.1680 

ooohhhhhhh

 

eye sea

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 From:  bohman75  
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2226.1682 In reply to 2226.1681 
:| 
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS  
 To:  bohman75     
2226.1683 In reply to 2226.1682 
Shhh. It's trying to sleep.

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 From:  bohman75  
 To:  ANT_THOMAS     
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Never!
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