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I agree it's sensationalist: "Not only was she awarded an exceptionally high mark of 85 per cent" In most PhD programs (at least in the USA), a B is the absol
by greggarious 12y ago
I agree it's sensationalist:
"Not only was she awarded an exceptionally high mark of 85 per cent"
In most PhD programs (at least in the USA), a B is the absolute minimum grade you can get to receive credit for a course. An 85% on a major class project would have basically been a "B for effort" - you did SOMETHING, but it had major flaws.
- keithpeter 12y agowell, you know, it is a scale but perhaps not an interval scale. Probably ordinal. UK grading at undergrad is 40% pass, then anything over 75% is Class 1.
- _blah 12y agoIn the UK (in most cases) you don't get the same sort of dynamic range compression in marking you seem to get in the US (though it is coming - witness the A/A/A* stuff at GCSE). It is fairly ridiculous for 85% to represent 'you turned up'.
- kelukelugames 12y agoA for average, B for bad, C for catastrophe.