UK grading system 75-100 A+ 70-74 A 64-69 A- 60-63 B+ 55-59 B 50-54 B- 46-49 C+ 43-45 C 38-42 C- 35-37 D 0-34
Time to move to the UK
ding dong u are wrong
We don’t even have + or - grades, the most we have is A*, which in order to achieve that you have to be in the top 10% of the fucking country
There isn’t even a ‘UK’ grading system because each constituent country of the UK has its own qualifications
and most importantly, before you go insulting millions of British students as though they don’t work as hard as you:
Marking differs HUGELY not just between subjects but between YEARS. It takes into account how hard the paper is each year, so if the entire populace does badly, they lower the grade boundaries to reflect difficulty. AND TRUST ME, IT CAN GET VERY DIFFICULT. This is referred to as ‘Grade inflation’ (or deflation).
In certain subjects where grade boundaries appear low, it’s also to do with the fact that examiners are EXTREMELY stingy with awarding marks. In order to achieve just 1 mark (and take into consideration the time limit is usually set so that you have to work for a mark a MINUTE) you have to follow precise AOs, (assessment objectives) and with humanities subjects there’s usually four different AOs with various levels of achievement. The likelihood of hitting all these AOs within the time given is next to none, but you’re still pushed to do it. So actually, if the grade boundaries are low, you should be pretty fucking worried.
Our qualifications, from A-Level upwards, are very, very specialised. Whereas in the US system you go on to major and minor to create a well-rounded curriculum we are made to pick one certain field of interest and study in (a fuckload of) depth. The grade system and the huge levels of scrutiny in examboards reflects the amount you are suppose to know for one particular subject. (and when I say how much I’m talking the precise grain production levels of all the 5-year plans during Stalinist Russia, for fucking example)
Sincerely, a British student who has to continually listen to privately educated politicians use these exact standards of over-simplification to justify their demonisation of the English, Welsh, Scottish or Northern Irish state school system.
I SAW THIS POST AND GOT ANNOYED SO FOUND IT WITH CORRECTIONS THANK GOD I am doing my A2’s and I got a history paper back with near 60% up and it was an E and its gutting as hell as I can’t get into uni with that grade. We have politicians saying we have it easy we don’t need the rest of the world seeing these false grade boundaries and assuming it too. As we work flipping hard and so many people are finding it harder and harder to achieve the grades they need to do their dream career because exams are getting harder.
The original post disgusts me.
As a UK student (who works extremely hard to get grades thank you very much) you’re giving the impression that over here we don’t work as hard and you’ve applied an incorrect and over simplified comparison of our grading to the American system.
An A* is the highest grade and you have to CONSISTENTLY AND REPEATEDLY SCORE 90% OR MORE IN ALL OF YOUR EXAMS ON AN AVERAGE YEAR.
So don’t patronise UK students just to make yourself feel more intelligent.
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There are four primary learning styles: visual, auditory, read-write and kinesthetic. To understand how to learn effectively, it is helpful to know what kind of learner you are.
Read-Write learners prefer printed words to receive information. They comprehend and remember what they read, especially when the topics are in statement or list form. They don’t like so much diagrams, charts or visual notes with colors and images that divert attention from the heart of the matter.
During class or lecture they take a lot of notes which will be crucial to understand and consolidate facts when studying at home. Often Read-Write learners take notes “verbatim”, that means they write words exactly how the teacher or professor said them. But an important part of note taking for such learners include rewriting notes in their own words. By doing that they have already interpreted what has been said and will be easier for them to strengthen the concept. Many students think that it’s useless to rewrite notes but that’s not true! Notes are just the starting place for further in-depth analysis that include handouts, textbooks, dictionaries, glossaries, etc. Every information in the notes of a Read-Write learner has his specific place. Bullet points and arrows are the easiest way to highlight key concepts and relations, while diagrams and charts seem confusing and unclear. If they have in front of them notes written in a visual format, they will likely rewrite them using full sentences.When they have to study for a test or exam, they rewrite notes multiple times, often putting them into other words or reducing them into bullet points lists. They also read (silently) the notes over and over again and read other material for research or comparison.
I am myself a learner of this type. I love to read and to write down accurate and complete notes during class. Once at home I usually read my notes again, read other sources if anything is not clear and then I rewrite them (often I type them because I don’t really like my handwriting). For example, these are my notes for my Scandinavian Literatures I class: 78 pages of theories, authors, books analysis that I wrote summing up notes I took during lectures and notes that our professor gave us.
As I need to study my notes for an exam, I write them again, condensing and reducing information into bullet points with key words. After that, I just read and read again my summary until I remember what I have to study. For example, the same informations that in the previous picture were written as statements, here are put in bullet points. From 78 pages of notes I got 15 pages of lists. Every author is listed with his works and key concepts. Just by reading this I can recall every author and contextualize him in his literary/historical movement.
In comparison with visual notes full of colors and doodles, these are pretty boring and simple (or minimalist?) but that’s what works best for me.
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