NATURAL NI KOISHITE 2,184 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 My whole life will be full of A pluses BLOODY HELL, people be pissed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawlaw 11,951 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I don't think the top half is correct, I think A+ is closer to 90. 50% is a C though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satan's Asshole 797 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 No lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishorei 1,632 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Wtf is this bs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seratoph 17 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 It depends on the level of education you are studying at, the exam board and the exam itself. GCSE Foundation (roughly) C = 70%+ D = 60% E = 50% GCSE Higher (roughly) A* = 90% A = 80% B = 70% C = 60% A Levels are about the same as GCSE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teru 22,363 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 lol I'm so tired of seeing this and people assuming it means the system is easier and being all "I'm moving to the UK lol!" stuff is graded harder here so it's not possible for everyone to get an A by ticking all the boxes. only exceptional students get A's. people get graded according to their ability. my straight-A American friend studied abroad for a year in the UK and was shocked when she started getting B's and C's on stuff because she was used to getting A's in everything, and when she panicked to the teacher about it, they were just like "no, your work is fine, don't worry. this is just our system" it's normal and acceptable to get B's and C's depending on what you're good/not so good at. and that's how it should be, imo. there's no point in having a grading system if everyone can get an A. what's the point in B's and C's if everyone treats them as fails anyway? how do you know where to specialise if you just get A's in everything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAEMONT 677 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 It depends on the level of education you are studying at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qri 4,063 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 LMAO no that's far from the truth. Plus, the exam boards can be harsh as fuck sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Im a liar a scammer 892 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Nope, generally it is harder to score in a uk system than in an american. I studied in a british system while my sister studies at an american. The usual sentiments are that most british students can score really high on an american system whilst most american system students will cry blood if they try out for the british system. Workload, testing schedual and work requirements are in general more rigourous. While exam formats are much more variant and rely on critical writing and more complex questions in comparison. But this is from my perspective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NappeunGZB 3,075 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 lol no I wish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mees Madds 36,578 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 We only get scores from 1 to 10 here Much more simple than all these numbers and letters tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salieri 4,473 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 It depends on the level of education you are studying at, the exam board and the exam itself. GCSE Foundation (roughly) C = 70%+ D = 60% E = 50% GCSE Higher (roughly) A* = 90% A = 80% B = 70% C = 60% A Levels are about the same as GCSE ^ This I sat both higher and foundation papers before in the past While A level's are roughly the same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
초췌 270 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 sounds like it works on a bell curve system which means numbers are all relative anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlayingSeohyun 6,688 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 No, the exams, in general are difficult. The grading is often bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!~Aishak~! 1,813 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Ah I would bring uk higher as no.1 in my list of westren countries that I want to visit and study postgraduate there if it is true kya !I'm stuck on B+ in my university because our system rate 75-85 as B+ lol and our studying system is one of the hardest among Asia tho so they oppress us oh ~I'm losing my previous youth life time studying for B+ -__- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qrisus 1,530 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Never in my life has ANY of my tests, from SATs to A-Levels have I ever seen B+/B-/C+/C- etc. only A+. And no, trust me, exams aren't that easy in the UK, and I was considered one of the brightest in my school haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
...... 3,962 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 I see US students reference the % all the time... Kids in the US would get WRECKED by the UK schooling system.... I used to tell my friends... "yes... please move to the UK and give it a go" .... I say this as someone who has experience both schooling systems... pretty equally ... I much prefer the US.... I think it's why my parents shipped me off here to school as a teen. They wanted me to amount to the most academically...with the amount of effort i was willing to put in...(which was barely any)... If you don't put in the effort in UK schools ... as a teenager... your life whole life outlook is pretty meek... unless you have a talent...... or a lot of money tbh.... In the US... you can half ass all the way through and still get a BA. I'm still dead at US students who flip out over like 2 day standardised... SAT and ACT.... 90% of Universities no longer look at them... and they've been made easier over the past 5 years.... again... A Levels .... GCSE ... = wreckage to typical US student.... and basically academically defining to UK students. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaniPi 2,626 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 GCSE's are much easier than A Levels. They can't be compared. University is harder especially in the final year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mielleux � 320 Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 as someone said before, all grade boundaries are worked out on a bell curve after everyone has sat the exam, so depending on how well the entrants did, or how badly rather, the boundaries can fluctuate from year to year. But normally, an A* is at around 90%, an A is 80% and so on and so forth (plus there are loads of different exam boards, so an A on an AQA biology paper could be a C on an Edexcel one). Basically, A Levels are a minefield, avoid at all costs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chunstra 11 Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Omg it's nothing like that. It can change from course to course. Even from exam. I remember in my further Maths A-Level, there was a paper that was particularly hard and to get an A, yeah you only needed to get 60%. But equally there were other exams where you need 85% for an A too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nshat07 188 Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 It's not true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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