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LC grades: why no percentages?

Naikon · 2011-07-20 01:00:18

Seriously, I can't understand why you aren't just given an overall percentage mark. 69.75 ain't very far away from 70, yet you could stand to lose a college place. Still, that is how the CAO works I guess.

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#32 21-07-2011 9:19pm

LilMissCiara

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kellogscoffey wrote: »

According to my maths teacher, if you're within something like 1/7th of a percent, you're rounded up. Now I could be wrong, it could be within 1/6th or 1/8th aswell.

And this fella's mad for all these particulars, so doubt him at your peril :pac:

In fairness though, most of us will ever know how close or how far from the next grade we were, unless we decide to look over the papers.

I think it's silly, and a bit of a waste of time, for teachers to tell their students things like that, and the SEC deals with marks, not percents.

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#33 23-07-2011 1:35am

Naikon

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Why not just give you the total mark value and let you work out the grade? Surely they keep a record of your marks too. At least then you could say "well, I was only 1 mark off the next grade, your honour!";

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