<p>What is recorded on the student transcript?
Does it go by letter or percentage grades?
If it goes by letter grades, what percentages equate to certain letter grades?
Generally is it hard to maintain a 3.8-4.0 at McGill?</p>
<p>the letter grade is recorded-
85-100% = A
80-85%: A-
75-80%- B+
70-75%- B
65-70%- B-
60-65%- C+
55-60%- C</p>
<p>It depends on your program- but generally cross-faculty McGill's academic program is quite competitive and challenging.</p>
<p>How come you only need lower percentages for a certain grade than you do in the US grading system? 80-100% seems too easy for getting an A. Here, it's only 90-100%.</p>
<p>yea. you say that now. but when the average of your calc midterm is a 22/40, you understand why the grading system needs to be scaled.</p>
<p>this is a hard university.
it earns its reputation.</p>
<p>Yeah. When you come in as someone who almost never got a B in the States to getting 65's here at the beginning, you'll understand.</p>
<p>You just have to be prepared and make sure you study and such.</p>
<p>Yeah, I understand exactly what you guys are saying. I went from always getting A's in high school to only getting B's and C's in college. So are many other people. And they curve the scores here in the us too; however, they dont do it based on an absolute percentage scale like the one posted above. They just curve it based on how people perform on each test.</p>
<p>My dau is taking an online French course through a Canadian university. She has gone from getting 90s to 80s and even 70s. Besides the fact the curriculum is rather weird- she is learning about homeless people in French- the grading is tough.</p>
<p>Canadian high school systems are very different from US systems. In general, Canadian high schools screw their students by packing tons of info into every minute of school, and then giving hard as hell tests. Usually if a student here in Canada misses a day of school, we can get highly screwed for a test, and in the end our final grade. University-wise, American universities are found to be a bit more relaxed than Canadian ones, mainly because of the extra month or so in the US school year (Aug-May vs. Sept-Apr)</p>
<p>What MKDaMan says is true. There is a girl that transferred from an american high school to my canadian high school. She was top of her class with a 96 average. When she began studying the ap sciences and calc with my classes she had to drop out of all of them since she was getting something in the 60-70 range. She said that the method of evaluation (the tests basically) are extremely harder in Canada.</p>
<p>Those kids whos don't do As wEll just Aren't fit.</p>
<p>Canadian High Schools are tougher when it comes to grading. VERY few people in an average public canadian high school achieve 90% and above. An 85% is already considered very good in most places in Canada, especially Ontario. If you look at the "cutoffs" for some of the top Canadian Universities such as U of T, you'll notice that MANY programs have cutoffs at around 75% (which is provincial standard in the province of Ontario) a few at 85% and like maybe one or two programs with a 90% cutoff.</p>