[lit-ideas] Re: A+ and why they don't have it in Eton
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 08:47:36 -0700
On Aug 31, 2010, at 11:03 PM, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:
Apparently, in America, "A" is 98. Thus, A+ is 100.
This does NOT make logic. To me, A is 100. And A+ is more than 100.
I remember in England the top mark usually being between seventy and
eighty. If it wasn't, the test was said to be "too easy," with a risk
of swollen heads. In my daughters' high school, seventy was
dreadful. To get an A you had to score between ninety and a hundred.
An A+ meant getting more than a hundred...out of a hundred. (There
are "bonus questions," and points for this, that and the other thing.)
The same is true of a grade point average in this fine country. It
too can be more than perfect.
I am reminded of the dean who said no one should get an average score
on our final exercise because that would mean we were not graduating
above average students.
I have awarded three A+s in twenty (mumble) years. They were well-
deserved.
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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