MathiasZaman comments on Stupid Questions December 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MathiasZaman 10 December 2014 01:10:40PM 9 points [-]

People are thinking in terms of grades, where 75% is a C. People think most things are not worse than a C grade (or maybe this is just another example of the pattern I'm seeing)

I don't think it's this. Belgium doesn't use letter-grading and still succumbs to the problem you mentioned in areas outside the classroom.

Comment author: Capla 12 December 2014 02:02:36AM 0 points [-]

What do they use instead?

Comment author: MathiasZaman 12 December 2014 08:11:45AM 2 points [-]

Points out of a maximum. The teacher is supposed to decide in advance how much points a test will be worth (5, 10, 20 and 25 being common options, but I've also had tests where I scored 17,26/27) and then decides how much points a question will be worth. You need to get half of the maximum or more for a passing grade.

That's in high school. In university everything is scored out of a maximum of 20 points.

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