From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e08c98d7ce85399 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: wf@dcs.gla.ac.uk (Bill Findlay) Subject: Re: Kindness Date: 1999/09/07 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 522166361 References: <37CC6844.AB898EEE@rational.com> <37CE93CD.799A225A@pwfl.com> <37CF0FE0.2B299477@acenet.com.au> <7qood6$h3f$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37D04424.16486E1E@pwfl.com> <37D50512.F23F9F68@pwfl.com> Organization: The University of Glasgow Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-09-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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