<p>I know for a fact that European schools are way harder than American schools. I had to work my ass off to get A's and I still have some B's on my transcript.</p>
<p>I go to a European school. We grade:</p>
<p>7 Excellent
6 Very Good
5 Good
4 Satisfactory
3 Mediocre
2 Poor
1 Very Poor</p>
<p>And it is very hard to get 6's and 7's.</p>
<p>I would say St. Andrews is the best school people frasier did do a ranking in ontario we scored a 10.0 and then they did a ranking in canada and we scored a 10.0 I think we scored highly because of our 54 sports team our soild 84.3 school average, all of the awards we have recieved for our drama club that travels around canada, and our football team that won the CIS championship 2 times in a roll. But.. It mightve changed.. just the last time I checked</p>
<p>There's no such thing as "All American schools have grade inflation" and "All Canadian schools are much harder."</p>
<p>US schools have a lot of freedom to use their own individual systems, so it is impossible to compare "US schools" to anything. Almost every US schools is different.</p>
<p>I think the Canadian private school marking system is very similar to that of elite preps such as Deerfield, where only a few that try get above a 90...Canadian publics are usually less stringent on grades, but not to the point of American publics. </p>
<p>We had a teacher last year who taught in Texas the year before, and he gave out marks like it was candy. If I attain ~95% in normal courses, I would usually rank 1or2/40+ people. I had a 94% in his course and was ranked 4/7.</p>
<p>My school ranks by course not class(ie. english 10 not the whole grade).</p>
<p>The fact that there is no unified grading system is part of the problem. If the US had one they probably wouldn't need SAT's.</p>
<p>Haha wow...I thought my system was most prevalent.</p>
<p>95 and up: A+
90-94 : A
85-89: B+
80-84: B
75-79: C+
70-74: C
65-69: D
and anything below that: um....yeah, the school pretty much dominated you.</p>
<p>::How competitive is Virginia anyway?::</p>
<p>That's like asking how competitive British Columbia is, or Nova Scotia. It depends on each school district. That said, southern schools tend to have lower standardized test scores.</p>
<p>At the University of Western Australia in Perth, their grading system is the following:</p>
<p>80-100 High Distinction
70-89 Distinction
60-69 Credit
50-59 Pass
49- Fail</p>
<p>That's if I remember that correctly.</p>
<p>JTC007 -
are you mocking me? =P
thanks for making me feel incompetent for getting my 90-94's (with exception to Stats)</p>
<p>94-100 A (4.0)
90-93 B+ (3.5)
84-89 B (3.0)
80-83 C+
74-79 C
70-73 D+
64-69 D
-63 F</p>
<p>For Fairfax co. public schools</p>
<p>in america.. I would never be able to get into any college</p>
<p>there was this canadian boy in my school last year. he's asian and REALLY TALL. we were always asking him if he played basket ball. lol
i think he got tired of us and moved back to canada. He's really smart though and always saying how easy the class was (i only had one class with him and that was french)</p>
<p>Today I went to the bookstore to buy the CB SAT Study book. I looked at the AP study guides on the shelf, and realized how easy AP courses were. Maybe thats why the Asian-Canadian kid kept saying how easy his classes were.</p>
<p>what are you kidding me!!! AP courses are no where near easy!
(except if you're a "jenius" or you're from canada i guess )</p>
<p>I guess the AP books in the bookstore (I think it was Barron's) are like simplified then, cuz the materials in there seemed really simplistic. But then I didn't read through them thoroughly, so I don't know for sure.</p>
<p>How did you realize how easy an AP course is based on a study guide? That doesn't make sense.</p>
<p>You can take a look at sample AP question on the AP central site. The tests also vary greatly on difficulty.</p>
<p>well...first of all...the fact that one can obtain an AP course credit by studying an AP course on his own and writing an exam shows that AP grades and credits are pretty much entirely dependent on the examination results. On the contrary, in IB, we can't self-study a course because there are so many other laboratory, writing, and oral assignments that are taken into account when assigning a grade to the course. IB requires students to think about what they are learning. AP seems more learning and memorizing than understanding and applying to me.</p>
<p>And I've already said that I'm not 100% sure about AP's level. I was just saying that that's how I felt when I looked through the study guides. I guess I expected AP materials to be much more challenging than what I saw.</p>
<p>BC Canada has the following:</p>
<p>A 86-100
B 73-85
C+ 67-72
C 60-66
C- 50-59
Below 50 F</p>
<p>In our private university prep school, the highest GPA last year was 94% and only the top 5 were 90%+. As an American I can attest they do grade differently in Canada. In BC, in your final grade the Provincial exam is 50% of your mark and every student in grade 12 takes the exact same exam to get a final grade 12 mark.....SATs not neeeded!</p>