Why is American grading with letters?

  • 🇵🇦 Nuestro primer dominio localizado está en español en kiwifarms.pa. Our first localized domain is on Spanish on kiwifarms.pa.
  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account
Destacado
Sam Losco dijo:
It is 100 to 0.
90 to 100 = A
80 to 89 = B
70 to 79 = C
60 to 69 = D
<60 = F
Presiona para expandir...
But it has less precision, if you get a C you won't know if it was like 70, or more like 79, which may be something you'd want to know.

Also, less intuitive. If you get 75/100, you know exactly where you are (barring maybe the imprecision of the teacher's subjective grading criteria), but if you get a C or a B, you have to know the arbitrary grading used with the letters.

So you're taking 1 extra step by converting numeric to letters, maybe for unnecessary convenience.
 
We Are The Witches dijo:
But it has less precision, if you get a C you won't know if it was like 70, or more like 79, which may be something you'd want to know.

Also, less intuitive. If you get 75/100, you know exactly where you are (barring maybe the imprecision of the teacher's subjective grading criteria), but if you get a C or a B, you have to know the arbitrary grading used with the letters.

So you're taking 1 extra step by converting numeric to letters, maybe for unnecessary convenience.
Presiona para expandir...
Individual assignments were almost always numerically graded in addition to a letter grade, thus you are actually graded numerically.
Reports cards for parents can only have letters as a quick summary. I can remember having report cards both ways growing up so it just depends on the school.
But grading is done numerically and just summarized with a letter as it's faster to say "Johnny has an F in Biology" instead of "Johnny has a 55/100 in Biology."
 
Sam Losco dijo:
Individual assignments were almost always numerically graded in addition to a letter grade, thus you are actually graded numerically.
Reports cards for parents can only have letters as a quick summary. I can remember having report cards both ways growing up so it just depends on the school.
But grading is done numerically and just summarized with a letter as it's faster to say "Johnny has an F in Biology" instead of "Johnny has a 55/100 in Biology."
Presiona para expandir...
Yeah, but it seems like unnecessary convenience.

Where I am, if you need to say someone got an "F", you'd just say they didn't pass. If you want to be precise, then you can just say if they got a 49, or a 2, or a 59, which is a substantial difference.

Like it brings no real advantage.
A Very Big Fish dijo:
I'll just ask what I wondered throughout the entirety of my education.

Where the fuck is the 'E'?
Presiona para expandir...
https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlik..._why_do_we_skip_e_in_the_letter_grades_a_b_c/
 
in poland we use 1-6 with 6 being rarely used
grades 2-5 can additionally have - or + added
grade 1 can only have a + added
grade 6 can only have a - added
1 is the worst 6 is the best
 
It is a carry over from old English education, as is most stuff in all of American academics. There simply isn't a reason big enough to change it, much like not moving to the metric system.

The grades are traditionally A to D in descending quality. These are in theory all passing grades, but they mark by which quality you passed with.
F stands for fail, it is the traditionally the only failing grade.
These letter grades came before rubrics and point grading systems, where the instructor or proctor would assign you a letter by his own discretion.
Later on they were assigned percentage point values, which lead to grades D and C being turned into failing grades, making people wonder where E is.
 
European ones, Hungary grades with 5 to 1. + or - may apply.

The percentage is not set however. The easier the test, the higher you need for lower grades. Usually you need 51% to pass, but some very hard exams go for 20% ratios because they are that hard, and they show percentage on the documentation.

But it is easier for melanated people. Nigga yo what is a meter nigga I measurin' my distance by suckin and shufflin.
 
Destacado
Debes iniciar sesión o registrarte para responder aquí.
Atrás
Top Abajo