[lit-ideas] Re: A+ and why they don't have it in Eton
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 12:57:52 EDT
J. Evans uses 'absurd' hyperbolically:
"In A Levels here now though it's possible
and not abnormal to get 100 for a Shakespeare
paper, which strikes me as absurd."
This in reply to D. Ritchie who did gave 3 A+s, but notes:
"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.)"
It was my understanding that
A: ranges from 90 to 98.
A+ then is 98-100.
But I do get the point about the 'extra' or 'bonus'. That would mean 'just
in case you do not do well in coming examinations". So that if one gets an
A+, and then the person gets an A-, the final thing may be an A (plain).
I should revise this. There should be online sources where they indicate
that A+ just means 98-99. Rather than the IMPOSSIBLE (unless taken as
'future' credit) of more than 100 over 100.
Etc.
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Speranza--Bordighera
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