The British educational/grading system just flummoxes me.
But on the last two papers I took - neither of them incidentally texts with which I was familiar (one was a restoration comedy, the other poetry by Philip Larkin) I achieved a mark of well over 90%. I was gobsmacked - so much so that I rang the exam board to check they hadn't made a mistake. Okay, so I was about twenty years older than the majority of the candidates and I can actually write and express myself properly, but "in my day", a mark like that was unheard of.
These are essentially term papers? Essays on the books you read? (Not 'book reports', obviously, but true essays?)
I majored in English Lit, and I never had a problem earning grades in the 90's. Other students did, sure, but then....I know how to spell. :-P But seriously---it's not that it was 'easy', but it certainly wasn't so difficult as to be 'unheard of'. I'm trying to figure out if your system is (or was) more difficult than what I went through, or not.
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Date: 2008-08-14 10:55 pm (UTC)The British educational/grading system just flummoxes me.
But on the last two papers I took - neither of them incidentally texts with which I was familiar (one was a restoration comedy, the other poetry by Philip Larkin) I achieved a mark of well over 90%. I was gobsmacked - so much so that I rang the exam board to check they hadn't made a mistake. Okay, so I was about twenty years older than the majority of the candidates and I can actually write and express myself properly, but "in my day", a mark like that was unheard of.
These are essentially term papers? Essays on the books you read? (Not 'book reports', obviously, but true essays?)
I majored in English Lit, and I never had a problem earning grades in the 90's. Other students did, sure, but then....I know how to spell. :-P But seriously---it's not that it was 'easy', but it certainly wasn't so difficult as to be 'unheard of'. I'm trying to figure out if your system is (or was) more difficult than what I went through, or not.