Last week, I attended a graduation ceremony for KC School of management. The honors students were called up, and the head of the class approached the podium to receive her honorary diploma with the highest marks in the class at 78%. Yes, Seventy Eight Percent!
I was surprised to find out that the grading system is still based out of 100% - but it's on a different scale. Anything above 70% is an extremely high achievement. A great mark would be 65-69%. Passing is 35%. Go figure. I guess the value of numbers change a bit when you travel half way around the world. :)
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Many years ago in the US, this type of differentiation and prestige ranking used to exist. Over time this changed. Now in the US, grade inflation is the norm, and students who don't receive above 90% will file complaints and the teachers get reprimanded. So we end up with "everyone" getting an A, and the best teachers are no longer teaching....
This statement is so false! I am an art teacher in public schools and I have been teaching for almost 25 years now. There are alot of GOOD teachers, some EXCELLENT teachers. People do not realize how hard teachers really do work, and the low - "professional" pay we get for the hours and hours of time we put in to educate. A good teacher is one who cares and is consciencious about giving grades, one who is proud of the students who are enthusiastice, who try their best and who succeed and accomplish at their goals.....even at University level. All students are definitely not getting A's! and there are plenty of good teachers around.
Mindy Dember
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