From: wf@dcs.gla.ac.uk (Bill Findlay)
Subject: Re: Kindness
Date: 1999/09/07
Date: 1999-09-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wf-0709991653410001@wyre.dcs.gla.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37D50512.F23F9F68@pwfl.com
In article <37D50512.F23F9F68@pwfl.com>, e108678@pwflcom wrote:
> Bill Findlay wrote:
>
> > No one with an average of 4.0 would have the slightest
> > hope of graduating. 8-)
>
> Excuse my ignorance. Is the grading system over there very much different than
> that which most American schools use? A = 4.0, B = 3.0, etc.?
>
Things are quite different.
For a start, we think of 'schools' as places of primary or
secondary education, full of unruly schoolchildren, and we do rather
insist on being a grown-up university. 8-)
In our systems of measurement a bald 4.0 could only be either 4%, or a
(new-fangled) Grade Point/Average which for our courses ranges up to 16,
making 4.0 very much a failure in either case. To get *into* our
graduating courses, you should expect to get a GPA of 12 in earlier years.
But that is just our system. Universities in the UK tend to be rather idiosyncratic, and many use quite different numbers for the same levels
of attainment. In fact, even within this department a totally different
and more traditional system is used for grading Honours degrees
(1st-, upper 2nd-, lower 2nd-, or 3rd- class).
> Or am I simply missing the joke?
> (Things don't always translate well over the net! :-)
>
It's not so much the Net as that old business of being divided
by a common language, perhaps (English, not Ada 95!).
--
Bill Findlay
Department of Computing Science
The University of Glasgow
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-08-31 0:00 Kindness Mark Lundquist
1999-09-02 0:00 ` Kindness Jerry Petrey
1999-09-02 0:00 ` Kindness Nick Roberts
1999-09-02 0:00 ` Kindness Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Robert Dewar
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Andy Askey
1999-09-05 0:00 ` Kindness Robert Dewar
1999-09-07 0:00 ` Kindness Andy Askey
1999-09-07 0:00 ` Kindness Bill Findlay
1999-09-02 0:00 ` Kindness Marin David Condic
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Geoff Bull
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Marin David Condic
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness tmoran
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Marin David Condic
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-04 0:00 ` Eight Queens problem (was Re: Kindness) Daryle Walker
1999-09-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-07 0:00 ` bourguet
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-08 0:00 ` bourguet
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
[not found] ` <37D55622.69B27515@rational.com>
1999-09-07 0:00 ` Homework " Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Homework Mark Lundquist
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Robert Dewar
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Aidan Skinner
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Marin David Condic
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Kindness Bill Findlay
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Kindness Robert Dewar
1999-09-07 0:00 ` Kindness Marin David Condic
1999-09-07 0:00 ` Bill Findlay [this message]
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-04 0:00 ` Kindness Aidan Skinner
1999-09-06 0:00 ` Kindness Geoff Bull
1999-09-05 0:00 ` Kindness Aidan Skinner
1999-09-03 0:00 ` Kindness Matthew Heaney
1999-09-09 0:00 ` Kindness James William Zuercher
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Kindness Robert Dewar
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Kindness Mark Lundquist
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Kindness Robert Dewar
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