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
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.
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.)
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.
