Equivalents of HP/P/F grading system

[joshua_msu]

for all of those whose schools use a hp/p/f grading system, can anyone tell me roughly the percent conversion for these grades? my school doesnt use this, they just give a percent grade based on what you earned in the available points. then they assign a letter grade. 90-100=A, 80-90=B, 70-80=C, and so on. i always here people talk about getting a hp or a p, but i dont really know how that translates to a percentage range. thanks.

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[babinski bob]

at our school. H = >90-92%; HS = 88-91%; S > 70%

 

[Bernd]

My school uses Honors/Pass/Fail. Honors is always the top 15% of the class, so roughly the top 18 students in each course. I guess by a standard bell curve this would be an A.

 

[omores]

There's no standard at my school -- it's course-dependent. Some instructors limit Honors to the top whatever-percent of the class; some give Honors anyone who gets above a certain cumulative score on exams -- which could be any number of people (including zero) depending on how well everybody does.

For clinical rotations it's even weirder. In most cases it's subjectively determined by the course director based on a combination of written evals, shelf exam, and any projects or presentations we had to do. In a few cases, all the attendings get together and hash it out. In one case (which worked really badly, in my opinion), the clinical evals, exam and projects were converted to a numerical score. If you got above 90, that was Honors -- but just about nobody did.

 

[Allygator89]

Honors-90+
Pass with Commendations- 80-89
Pass- 70-79

 

[cocoabutter]

We are graded on a 0,1,2,3 scale broken down like this

0=fail: below 70
1=low pass: 71-77
2=pass: 78-92
3=high pass: 93+

 

[Kosmo]

Top 15 % honor, and a score above 92 guarantees honors (so on an easy test more than 15% honor.

Above 75 guarantees pass, and above 1 SD below the mean guarantees pass (so if this is lower than 75 then one can get <75 and pass, and conversely if a 76 is >1SD below the mean, it's still passing.) Ultimately, upon determining the final grades, it is the course directors' discretion where to put the final pass and honor levels, provided they meet the above guarantees.

And of course, clinical evals are completely different. Honoring a clerkship requires an 'Outstanding' evaluation as well as getting 0.5-1 SD (depending on the clerkship) above the mean on the Shelf exam.

 

[Smoke This]

It varies between classes, but generally honors is >90%, high pass anywhere from 75-85% at the low end, pass around 60-65%.

 

[UCSBMed1]

Man, I feel sorry for you guys.

My school is STRICTLY Pass/Fail during the first two years. No, high pass, pass with accomodations (what the heck is that anyway), etc. Why don't they just give out A,B,C, D, and Fs? It would just end any confusion.

Is it competitive at your respective schools?

 

[FionaS]

A >70%
B 60-70%
C 50-60%
Borderline fail 47-50% - get a resit
D (fail) 40-47%
E (fail) 30-40%
F (fail!) 20-30%

We do things differently here 😉

Mostly you get Bs and Cs. If you're really good you'll get an A. It's hard to get used to after straight As all the way through school

 

[joshua_msu]

Originally posted by FionaS
A >70%
B 60-70%
C 50-60%
Borderline fail 47-50% - get a resit
D (fail) 40-47%
E (fail) 30-40%
F (fail!) 20-30%

We do things differently here 😉

Mostly you get Bs and Cs. If you're really good you'll get an A. It's hard to get used to after straight As all the way through school

so basically you need to be a complete ******* to fail in the UK?

 

[Robz]

Either that or a test that is so impossible that the average is around a 40.....🙄

 

[FionaS]

The average is about 55% - I think. They don't release such things to us students 😉 But looking at the grades, that would seem to be about right. So definitely possible to fail... My average at the moment would be about 59%, and I'm certainly not the bottom of the year (neither am I top )

Like I said, it's different 😛