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[naturegirl321]

Is this normal or is my school just be completely subjective and difficult?
We have 10-11 grades per student for English. Each grade has to be composed of at least 2 grades, obviously they prefer more. Then there is no number system. Just letters. AD, A, B, C. So what's an AD? Very good. An A? They understand. B? In Progress. C? Fail.

So you could have a student that in a number system of 19-20 AD, 13-18 A, 7-12 B, and 6 below C, gets almost all of the questions correct and one that gets far fewer correct, both come out with As.

So it comes down to this. Let's say you've got two students. First with 7, 7, 13, 13 which is B, B, A, A The second has 12, 12, 18, 18, which is also B, B, A, A. According to numbers, the first one should get a B, because the As and Bs are low. And the second gets an A because of high As and Bs. But here, they would argue that if the student tries, then they should get an A, so both gets As. Funny how it works, isn't it? Because if the student is lazy, talking and rude, you can't lower the grade. However, if they "try" you can raise it.

It's completely subjective. And if they get Bs, be prepared to have meetings with the student, the homeroom teacher, parents, coordinators until the grades get raised to an A. So I'm thinking I should save myself time and just give As.

The icing on the cake? Well, at the end of the school year we have to convert all the letters to numbers because the unis simply don't accept letters only. You think the school would get the message.

Anyways, just frustrated because I have to change my 3000, no joke, number grades to letters