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    Quote Originally Posted by Gemini Sunrise View Post
    They generally do both because the letter is a code for a (relatively small) percentile range. Just a REALLY lazy way of telling your parents what you got. :/
    Ah, well, if they do both then I don't see a problem.

    But if people use letters only to rate something, I think that's pretty stupid because it doesn't give you a clear result and I don't understand some schools that use letters only.

    Why not just use numbers or both numbers and letters? The way it's done in some schools just leaves the students confused and unclear about their scores.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Everything Nice View Post
    No, I'm speaking Old Norse, the TARDIS translation matrix is just making it comprehensible to you.
    Wouldn't it make it comprehensible to you? Or am I the Dr's companion? Woo for me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Majad View Post
    Ah, well, if they do both then I don't see a problem.

    But if people use letters only to rate something, I think that's pretty stupid because it doesn't give you a clear result and I don't understand some schools that use letters only.

    Why not just use numbers or both numbers and letters? The way it's done in some schools just leaves the students confused and unclear about their scores.

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    I didn't even know there WERE schools that did that. So there's that.

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    In the UK, at least in some part, grades are shiftable. I remember most of our history class getting a shit grade on one of our exams at A-Level, apparently because everyone had done whatever relative to the whole country, they shifted the boundaries and shit, so we ended up with a lower grade in that exam .. stupid I know ...

    Something to that effect anyway, I did shit in that exam because it was boring, American Civil War .. woo >.<

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    I didn't even know there WERE schools that did that. So there's that.
    It doesn't happen in my country, afaik, but it does happen a lot in the US it seems, and it just annoys me...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Purifier View Post

    GEMIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hai!


    Night night!
    Hi and night Puri. :3

    Quote Originally Posted by Majad View Post
    It doesn't happen in my country, afaik, but it does happen a lot in the US it seems, and it just annoys me...
    Least in Indiana it isn't like that.

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    Would it not be on a school by school basis maybe? Or state by state or whatever.

    Not that it really matters, higher letter sounds better, especially if you were at the lowest point of that letter

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rixis View Post
    Would it not be on a school by school basis maybe? Or state by state or whatever.

    Not that it really matters, higher letter sounds better, especially if you were at the lowest point of that letter
    I'd assume a good deal of it is statewide. Helps to keep things somewhat constant, you know.

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    School was far too long ago for me to be all that bothered by it now

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    I hate when people just come in my room like if it was a park.

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    T.T

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    Take down the swings then !!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Majad View Post
    Ah, well, if they do both then I don't see a problem.

    But if people use letters only to rate something, I think that's pretty stupid because it doesn't give you a clear result and I don't understand some schools that use letters only.

    Why not just use numbers or both numbers and letters? The way it's done in some schools just leaves the students confused and unclear about their scores.

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    We use both numbers and letters, though it's annoying that there isn't anything above an A seeing as some classes it becomes possible to have like, 300%. I got 212% in a computer class once, fairly certain that's the only reason that I don't have like, a 1.0 GPA.

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    Something.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Majad View Post
    I hate when people just come in my room like if it was a park.

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    T.T

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    Quote Originally Posted by Politicus View Post
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    And how they never close the room on the way out, right?

    My parents and sister are terrible at that....THEY ALWAYS LEAVE THE FUCKING DOOR OPEN GAHHHHHHHHHH RAGE
    Like, holy shit, that is the most annoying thing ever. There's a reason I close the goddamn door!

    Quote Originally Posted by dupti View Post
    Something.

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    Unless you did more than 2 tests in the time it took to do 1 test, I don't see how you can score anything above 100%

    I mean .. it's percent, it's shifting relatively.

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    If only it was that easy.
    Quote Originally Posted by Politicus View Post
    And how they never close the room on the way out, right?

    My parents and sister are terrible at that....THEY ALWAYS LEAVE THE FUCKING DOOR OPEN GAHHHHHHHHHH RAGE
    My mom actually always closes because she always gets annoyed at me when I go close it the moment she leaves the room only to get back in again, so in return for me not to do that, she always closes it.

    My brother though, yup...
    Quote Originally Posted by Decagon View Post
    We use both numbers and letters, though it's annoying that there isn't anything above an A seeing as some classes it becomes possible to have like, 300%. I got 212% in a computer class once, fairly certain that's the only reason that I don't have like, a 1.0 GPA.
    300%? 212%? That's way above my head or anyone else's here.

    Quote Originally Posted by Rixis View Post
    Unless you did more than 2 tests in the time it took to do 1 test, I don't see how you can score anything above 100%.
    ^

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    ok, done giving cows shots, no w i got to check the old cows, then two raids then finally sleep. Wish me luck, be back in like an hour to spam the thread on run backs.

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