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I realized I never answered the exact question that was asked, about what letter grade a 93% would be:
Elementary school: the grading system was E, G, S, I, or N, and no teacher actually gave E's, and G's were given very rarely. A 93 would have been most likely a G, or an S if it was a teacher who didn't want to give G's. For behavior grades, and for art, music, or gym, you could only get S or N, so a 93% would be an S.
Middle / high school: A 93 would be an A. My middle and high schools did not use A-. However, as I mentioned, teachers were allowed to override grades with whatever grade they wanted. If a teacher wanted to give an F for a 93, it was well within his/her power.
College: No official policy, but likely either an A or A-.
Grad school; No official policy, but likely either an A or A-. Since that school dropped +'s and -'s on your official transcript and when calculating GPA, either way, it would end up as an A.
Then find a way to be happy where you are at and quit complaining that maybe someone else has it better than you.
This reminds me a lot of a commenter we had a few years ago from the Bay Area. He similarly had a chip on his shoulder against vague forces he thought held him down.
When we got deeper into the conversation he revealed that his definition of success was extremely specific and limited, and so it was no wonder he was upset.
The scale is irrelevant because it doesn't control for how individuals assess work. Studies have shown that if someone thinks something is A work or that someone is an A student, it/they will get an A regardless of the scale used, most likely. So, although you may feel more elite or smarter if you got an A on a scale that used 93-100 vs. one that used 90-100, chances are you would get the same grade regardless of the scale used more often than not.
That being said, there is a 'standard scale' that has been used at most colleges and high schools. https://pages.collegeboard.org/how-t...-gpa-4.0-scale One common modification of the standard scale is to not have +/- grades - i.e. A+, A and A- grades are all just A.
The scale is irrelevant because it doesn't control for how individuals assess work. Studies have shown that if someone thinks something is A work or that someone is an A student, it/they will get an A regardless of the scale used, most likely. So, although you may feel more elite or smarter if you got an A on a scale that used 93-100 vs. one that used 90-100, chances are you would get the same grade regardless of the scale used more often than not.
That is very likely true. And, as I mentioned, my high school allowed teacher grade overrides, and I suspect that most schools allow them either officially or unofficially, so teachers can just give whatever grades they want, regardless of student performance. Even if a school does not officially allow a teacher grade override, schools tend to be very reluctant to overturn a teacher's grade.
I remember in my 6th grade reading class, one quarter, I got an A on every assignment, but got a B for the quarter. When I questioned the teacher, she said that my work was not high enough quality to get an A for the quarter. Ok, fair enough. So why did she give me A's on the assignments if I was only doing B work?
1-4 grade
A = 90 - 100
B = 80 - 89
C = 70 - 79
F = anything below a 70 5-8 grade
Same as above, but 60-69 was D and anything below 60 was F 9-12 grade
I remember the official school documents being the same as above, but multiple teacher graded like below.
A+ = 95-100
A- = 90-94
B+ = 85-89
B- = 80-84
and so on until you went below a 60 (F)
90-100 = A
80-89 = B
70-79 = C
60-69 = D
Below 60% is an F
But When I was a student it was
94-100 = A
85-93 = B
77-84 = C
70-76 = D
Below 70% is an F
And prior to that it was
94-100 = A
85-93 = B
75-84 = C
65-74 = D
Below 65% is an F
The grading scales weren’t set by my school though I think it was by either the county board of directors or the state dept of education.
These grading scales don’t reflect how easy or hard it is to get more % correct except it results in a different compare when targeting same accuracy but penalizing GPA on 93% 84% 76% etc when it comes to college admissions to schools that used GPA
It varied by teacher. I do know that school was much harder back in the old days.
^The point system above. If I recall correctly, the grading policy in my HS changed from a standard: A: 90-100, B: 80-89, etc system to the one noted above at some point between grade 7-12.
I don't care what grade scale you set, I can make the test so easy or hard as to make it meaningless.
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