<p>Yeah, but generally, 93-100 = A should be easier to score high on than 70-100 = A since if 70% is an A that means it should be fairly brutal to get a 100%.</p>
<p>Of course, individual teachers vary, but I don't think what I said was "terribly offensive". Many of my teachers use 90-100, but a few of my teachers at community colleges use different scales, and it is often much harder to get an A when the scale is 60% is an A. </p>
<p>For example, in my stats class, the teacher likes to play a joke. After the first test, I got my test back with a 61% percent and I thought "Oh s***", then he just placed it on a bell curve and since 60% was the top 10%, my 61% became an A. Barely made it through alive that class. Even though it was a community college, I felt that it would be much tougher than a similar class at Berkeley, given the fact that many of the kids later transfered to Berkeley and told me in person that Berkeley is much easier.</p>
<p>I agree with fast MEd. I go to one high school in my city, my mom teaches math at another. My school is on the 90-100 = A scale and hers is 94-100. But I look at the tests she writes, and the homework, and all that, and it is a little easier. Roughly the same amount of her kids get A's as kids at my school. I think it all evens out...</p>
<p>I prefer the grading system in #16, be prepared to see a lot more like it in college.</p>
<p>When you have a system where 92 or below is an B, the teacher cannot have difficult test that can distinguish the very good from the merely good. One single careless mistake would really set up back, so luck count more.</p>
<p>Another way of looking at it is compare SAT math IIc to PSAT, you can have harder problems in math IIc because missing a few can still get you 800 (A), whereas PSAT the problem are easy and you cannot afford to make a mistake.</p>
<p>My AP chem teacher curved our quarter grades TWO LETTER GRADES. Why? Because his class is so incredibly difficult that most people would either fail or get D's or C's without a curve. This quarter, an A was 70-100%, but I worked so incredibly hard just to cling to a 71%...</p>
<p>That being said, just because an A starts at a lower percentage doesn't necessarily mean it's easier to get an A.</p>
<p>My latin teacher curves test grades, thank god, otherwise everyone would have C's. My school's grading system is 90-100 = A 80-89 = B 70-79 = C and 65-69 = D anything below 65 = F. I think its a fairly decent grading system.</p>
<p>International grading scales are very different. It's not like they have the same thing as the US but a 70 is an A instead of a 90. It's pretty much impossible to get all the points. I know a lot of international IB schools grade on the 7 scale. That's essentially a curve where it's very difficult to get a 7 although 1s and 2s don't really happen if you actually attempted the task. A 7 on HL Math is about 70% of the points I believe, and a 4 or 5 is only about 50% of the points. The idea is that the tests and whatever ask things that most of the students, even having "mastered" the curriculum, couldn't get. Only the very top students with outside knowledge and whatnot can answer these questions and receive the points. Literally no one receives ALL the points. </p>
<p>In the US we don't really have that. Evidenced by your answer, we expect that any assessment we take will cover only material we knew we could possibly be tested on. Now that may cover a large range and some people may not bother to learn all of it, and the teacher might not explicitly state it, but more or less we don't go on the system of having problems that only a very small percentage could answer. Our math tests are all old HL problems and it did take some getting used to, lots of people drop out because it bothers them that they are tested on material they didn't explicitly "learn". In the end, the teacher sets her own thing for grades and does all that so it evens out somewhat (if we tried to use 94-100 for an A in that class we'd all be failing lol). It's still very hard to get an A and I think only about 1/4 or maybe 1/3 did last quarter.</p>