Re: Scores
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 26, 2002, 3:14 |
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Quoting Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...>:
> but most college exams in the US
> are scored on a 100% scale: A (the best) = 90 -
> 100%; B = 80 - 89%; C = 70 - 79% etc.
Odd. IME in Texas, a "C" is always 75-79% (inclusive), a
"D" 70-74% (inc.) and an "F" anything 69 and below (inc.),
both at the secondary and at the tertiary levels. Texas
schools in my experience also come down hard on grade
inflation -- never experienced it until I came to Chicago.
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