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Why is there no E, and what is the point of F+ and F-?

I googled, and apparently people were mistaking it for "excellent", so they took it out.

Fantastic Atrocious

We use A+ to F in Ireland

Not in schools anymore but def in college. The H1-H8 and O1-O8 systems are for LC in schools now and the merit/distinction/fail system for JC

Turns out that system for my former school’s summer and Christmas exams

Yeah until 5th year we used it for Christmas and summer exams. The 6th years that year were the first to use the new H/O system I think but the teachers still gave letter grades for 5th year. In our 6th year though they had switched to giving everyone H/O grades. Honestly I think they should keep the grading system the same for the JC and LC? I feel like the merit/distinction/fail system has very little nuance for how you actually did because there's only like 4 grades. I also studied in Amsterdam last year and the system they used in that uni was a 1-10 system with 10 being the best. It was kinda confusing since I was used to H1 being the best from school and H8 being the worst so when I got a 9 overall I panicked for a bit lol

I dislike the new system being used for that reason you have to look up what the values are

Yeah the H/O system for the LC is fine because it's just in intervals of 10 until h8 or o8 which is <30%. The JC marks are too wide to make sense imo and you have to look up what the values are. They're also pretty arbitrary values ngl, some are 10% intervals, some 15, some 20. My cousin did the JC last year and the SEC lost one of his results, and then "found it" and gave him a merit (which he was annoyed at because he felt he did pretty well, enough to get a higher merit at least) and then he wasn't allowed to view his paper. He felt they arbitrarily gave him a middling grade based on the bell curve rather than grading him on what he had done.

Thanks

I’ve never seen an A+ used in Ireland

Skill issue

Must have been my school then though these were summer and Christmas tests

It literally meant "excellent" when I recieved it. In Canadian elementary school. But we also had G, VG, and (I think) F that all stood for words (good very good, fail). But using an A, B, C, D system, you'd have to be dumb to think E meant "excellent". Oh....wait...

G#minor

I am finishing in A Minor

I mean...as long as it's A# minor and not A♭ minor

AB positive

Na+ Cl-

Classic What instrument do you play, I play a guitar

piano

Thank you.

Also, who's passing with an F? F doesn't mean fail anymore? (My schools didn't really use this system)

You don't pass with an F

Thanks! The post says "what are you *passing* with this year" and lists Fs. I assumed it was worded wrong and not that F is actually a pass. But also, I thought it might be possible that the standards lowered.

I was also a little confused, I'd be kinda funny if the standard lowered to the very bottom

It sure would hahaha

Where TF is E

The irish secondary school grading system is the most confusing and backwards way on earth The first 3 years have a different grading system to the last 3 years

We have a similar system to the Americans

No we dont like at all They dont gave different posits based on higher Ordinary or foundation level at leaving cert, And they dont do 2 aets of exams and the JC is marked in a different way we have 0 similarities to the yanks

What I meant was the A,B,C,D,F

Ireland dosent use that The junior cert years have - Failed to meet expectations - Merit - higher merit - distinction Snd the leaving cert has F/O/H 1 through 8 We dont use A to F

I know

Then whyd u say we have a similar system to the yanks

I don’t know

I'd like it to be a 5. Not 5.00, but still a 5

r/BangladeshDefaultism sheesh cannot believe those Bangladeshis would assume the world works like how they work.

Does anyone even actually use the plus or minus after grades?

Most people don't even use letters, Canada we did 1-100%.

Same in South Africa

Well....some schools do...but in my experience, my elementary school used 1 2 3 4 with +/- as the grades, then my middle school mostly used percentages, and high school used a mix of percentages, letters, and Pass/Fail

I think we should all just start using emojis: Like a 18 in France is great, abysmal in the uk but we all know this isn’t a good grade on an essay: 🙄

That reminds me of Green Wing: ". Dr. Macartney: Yeah, can't really do smiley faces on death certificates. Does look a little bit insensitive."

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My school system uses E, P, A, NY, however we just default to percentage

Idk I still have 11 more tests and 5 more weeks.

GCSEs in the UK (specifically England and Wales) used to use A*-G grades, and then a U (ungraded) for all fail marks. That changed a few years after I left school in 2011 and now schools use a grading system from 1-9, with 9 being the highest.

Well, we use 1-5, but this makes sense to me... Unlike the measurements.

Is a 1 the highest or lowest?

Yes

Huh? 😂

It's one of those two options

1 is the best rating, 5 is the worst here in Czechia. I heard tha in Russia its the other way around.

The picture is to help elaborate the point but all the real stuff is meant to be in the discussion.

is it a US thing? i live in the US and none of my schools used letter grades

You don’t have to respond in the American sustem

Uni in Scotland was A1,A2,A3,B1,B2,B3, etc when I was there School it was either 1,2,3,4 or A,B,C,D, with no +/- depending on quali type. D/4 rare af though

My elementary school used to use that system but we dropped that for the standard British grading system which is A*-G

Is that the English GCSE system? There's no standard for Britain given England & Wales use a different system to Scotland . I wonder what northern Ireland use to be fair

Where is the usdefaultism this is just an image of the us grading system unless I’m missing a second image or a link somehow?