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New grades are introduced all the time e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Certificate_of_Secondary_Education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Cert
by signal11 7y ago
New grades are introduced all the time e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Certificate_of_Secondary_Education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Certificate_of_Seconda...
> In 1994, the A* grade was added above the grade A, to further differentiate attainment at the very highest end of the qualification. This remained the highest grade available until 2017.
The grades are now 1-9, with 9 being the highest and above A*.
In this particular case, I think it certainly is within a University's remit to award a special grade given the exceptional circumstances.
- Maarten88 7y ago>The grades are now 1-9, with 9 being the highest and above A*. Another example of the US inching toward the metric system ;-)
- signal11 7y agoThis isn't the US -- these grades are from the UK. Although yes, the UK too is in this hybrid world where gas (petrol/diesel) is in litres, temperature is in Celsius, but vehicle speedometers are in miles per hour and feet and inches are very popular for height, measuring rooms and furniture, etc.
- freeflight 7y agoDon't forget about measuring your own weight in "stones".
- paublyrne 7y agoThey're still miles away from converting.
- Spoom 7y agoSeems like they're finding the path.
- C1sc0cat 7y agoThat's just A levels (which are open to fiddling by the government of the day) Universities have their own ideas