Yay!

[lirazel]

Got my first piece of graded coursework back! And I did well! It's a grade that if I got it in the States, I would be horrified, but here it's very respectable, so I'm pleased. The remarks were good, though one of them was like, "Did you not have thoughts on ____?" and I'm like YES I had thoughts on that, I had so many thoughts on that, but you only gave me one thousand words to work with!!!

Anyway, that's a relief, though not a huge one because I thought it was a very easy assignment. The second one--much, much more difficult--was due today, but the posting date for grades on that one says it'll be the 17th of December before we hear about them, which is ridiculous.

Comments

[dollsome]

Yay, good job!! Also, now I’m curious! How is grading different there?

[lirazel]

So apparently it goes like this:
70% and above: Distinction
60-69%: Merit
50-59%: Pass
0-49%: Fail

But like they actually stick to that? Like apparently a 70 is a good grade and people rarely make above an 80 on anything at all? Like I have a very smart friend here who made one grade above an 80 in the entirety of her undergrad years. So since I got above a 70%, it's like an A?

[dollsome]

Honestly, that makes so much more sense than our grading system! Especially since I became someone who grades things, I’ve always felt weird about 50 and 0 meaning the same thing!! (Which, okay, they are lumped together in what you described too, but at least there’s more variety beyond that score!)

[lirazel]

It does! And it's standardized across the country, so everyone knows what the grades actually mean. It's weird getting used to, but it's definitely far more sense-making.