Grades conversion school to school

[Esmolol]

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Silly question - a have seen a lot of schools operate on the Honors/High Pass/Pass scale. Our school does the good old ABCs. A is a 90% B is 80%, C is 70%. So is a B "equivalent" to a high pass?

 

[wysdoc]

Silly question - a have seen a lot of schools operate on the Honors/High Pass/Pass scale. Our school does the good old ABCs. A is a 90% B is 80%, C is 70%. So is a B "equivalent" to a high pass?

Irrelevant, really, because you can't transfer from school to school.
I will play though.
My guess
Honors = A
High Pass = B
Pass = C or D

 

[Esmolol]

Irrelevant, really, because you can't transfer from school to school.
I will play though.
My guess
Honors = A
High Pass = B
Pass = C or D

Yeah - hence the quotation marks on "equivalent."

 

[jhmmd]

B is pass.

 

[NotAProgDirector]

Your question is somewhat meaningless - or perhaps better said: you're asking the wrong question.

The meaning of Honors varies so much between schools. At some schools, 15% get honors. At others, 85% get honors. One school was Honors / Fail during COVID. So "converting" A/B/C to H/HP/P is much less important than what the grade distribution is at your school, and what you get.

And don't get me started on the school that now has High Honors / Honors / Almost Honors.

 

[Esmolol]

Geeezzz... I didn't even know it's such a huge mess. Thanks!

 

[SurfingDoctor]

Your question is somewhat meaningless - or perhaps better said: you're asking the wrong question.

The meaning of Honors varies so much between schools. At some schools, 15% get honors. At others, 85% get honors. One school was Honors / Fail during COVID. So "converting" A/B/C to H/HP/P is much less important than what the grade distribution is at your school, and what you get.

And don't get me started on the school that now has High Honors / Honors / Almost Honors.

That’s just what a “Near Honors” student would say.

 

[Goro]

Silly question - a have seen a lot of schools operate on the Honors/High Pass/Pass scale. Our school does the good old ABCs. A is a 90% B is 80%, C is 70%. So is a B "equivalent" to a high pass?

Sounds like an A/B/C scale to me.

 

[Niwrad]

Even if everyone used A B C the difficulty of exams obviously varies from school to school and even class year to class year

IMO it probably helps more to figure out an individual’s personal preferences, assuming each subject is weighted fairly to each other subject in a particular school