BensGrandad
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Being an OAP the grading of exam results has changed somewhat. In my day everybody needed A & B to pass what is the criteria now.
Being an OAP the grading of exam results has changed somewhat. In my day everybody needed A & B to pass what is the criteria now.
Being an OAP the grading of exam results has changed somewhat. In my day everybody needed A & B to pass what is the criteria now.
I thought they had changed it to 1-9?In my day, which is after yours, the Oxford O levels, I took at Hove County Grammar for Girls, were marked in numbers 1-8. 1-6 were passes, 7&8 were failures.
My granddaughter got her marks yesterday, which were still in the A*, A, B, and C format.
In my day, which is after yours, the Oxford O levels, I took at Hove County Grammar for Girls, were marked in numbers 1-8. 1-6 were passes, 7&8 were failures.
My granddaughter got her marks yesterday, which were still in the A*, A, B, and C format.
I thought they had changed it to 1-9?
I thought they had changed it to 1-9?
Only in English and Maths with 9 being the highest and 4 being a pass
I am reasonably sure that I read that everybody passes now, so as to not upset the less academic but the pass is on grades A - D so D although ' a pass' is not recognised by many as such or did I read this wrongly.
Not sure about that. For A levels, A - E were passes, then under that an F may have been a fail with a U ungraded (or something like that).I thought maybe in your day it would have been 1-9 with 1-6 being passes...'in my day' it was A-E with A-C being passes.
Not at every school it seems. I've seen other people on Facebook give their children/grandchildren's grades out as letters.
I think it may be that some exam boards haven't changed their system.
As BG says, he's an OAP but got letter grades; I'm an OAP, but got number grades (which were reversed from the modern ones ie 1 being the best grade) As I pointed out in my previous post, my exam board was Oxford.
There are clearly some very young people posting here. In my day it was only pass or fail each subject.
Not sure about that. For A levels, A - E were passes, then under that an F may have been a fail with a U ungraded (or something like that).
O levels were the same, except you needed grade C or above for it to count for some further education (but D and E weren't fails I don't think).
I thought maybe in your day it would have been 1-9 with 1-6 being passes...'in my day' it was A-E with A-C being passes...these were only introduced in 1975...you sure you weren't on the former?
Sorry I wasnt very clear the assessment was 1-9 but I converted that to what I thought was modern day terminology of A - B . I should stick with the old format.
For O level I assume, because for A level D and E were even acceptable for universities.Correct.....but i remember employers not seeing D and E as passes