A new swedish grading system!

[Swedishguy]

And I'll bet nothing helps teenage angst like being graded on a test for the first time in thirteen years.

I were actually graded on my tests in seventh grade, but they didn't anything more than this: If you get IG you will have to do a similar test.

 

[plarq]

I like percentage ones, or standardized scores.

 

[ori]

grades 4-6 (Germany) (I might have this one a bit wrong)

5 (worst)
4
3
2
1 (best)

he,he - we Germans are wierd
Actually it is like this:
1 (very good)
2 (good)
3 (satisfactory)
4 (adequate - passed)
5 (bad - failed)
6 (very bad - failed)
but only from grades 1*-10 in the last 2/3 years of school we have
0 (very bad - failed), 1 (bad - failed), 2 (bad - failed), 3 (bad - failed), 4 (adequate - failed), 5 (adequate - passed), 6 (adequate - passed), 7 (satisfactory), 8 (satisfactory), 9 (satisfactory), 10 (good), 11 (good), 12 (good), 13 (very good), 14 (very good), 15 (very good) - and then for the graduation certificate the 0-15 is again reconverted to the 1-6 grading system with 15 being 0.67 and 0 being 6

Now do you like this better?

*1st grade is often not graded...

 

[Masquerouge]

In France, we have a number 0 (completly wrong) to 20 (no error).

It's easier to decompose a problem in several parts, and it makes computing average easier

Well I too like the 0-20 system, but it has major flaws when grading, say, philosophy papers. In that case I think the A-B-C-D-F system is better.

EDIT: Oh and in the US my impression was that most of the time the grade is on 100 meaning we can compute an average.
Like A is 91-100, B 81-99, C 71-79, D 61-69, F= anything below, meaning you Failed. And sometimes, A+ = 96-100 while A- is 91-95.
I was always a bit amazed why 50 wouldn't be the grade an average paper got, but hey....

 

[History_Buff]

Here's how I was graded over the years
grades 7-8 (Canada)

A+ (for each letter)
A
A- (for each letter)
B
C
D
E
F (worst)

grades 9+ (Canada)

100% (best)
...
0% (worst)

And then when you get to University (Calgary anyway), they mark stuff in percentages, and then map those percentages to a letter grade, with a corresponding GPA. Problem is that how they determine the letter grades changes from class to class; some profs have absolute schemes, some set them based on class performance, and I assume that some profs (luckily none in Engineering) apply the bell curve, which I think means someone has to fail, or at the very least that your grade will go down.

People in other faculties seem to hate it, but it's only ever worked in my favor.

 

[Hitti-Litti]

Finland has a grading system like this:

1-3 grade:
H=Good(Hyv&#228
K=Average(Keskitaso)
??? (I don't remember)

4-9 grade:
10=Great
9=Very Good
8=Good
7=Satisfied
6=Moderate
5=Acceptable?
4=Failed

 

[Xanikk999]

I have a question on your grading system.

So basically since there is no grading below 8th grade in sweden does that mean kids making no progress in basic curriculum or learning anything at all keep going?

That looks like a recipe for failure.

 

[Kyriakos]

The problems begin when good is being thought of as >17,5-18. Which in Greece due to the relative shortage of universities in relation to demand for higher education has lead in the past (eg when i was finishing highschool) to various courses having an entrance grade of >18,5. This was also why so many greek students are to be found in foreign universities.
A few days ago a law has passed which will bring Greece in conformity with the EU in relation to private-owned universities (ie non state) which in turn will create more of them, and hopefully limit the population of student emigrating.

 

[warpus]

And then when you get to University (Calgary anyway), they mark stuff in percentages, and then map those percentages to a letter grade, with a corresponding GPA. Problem is that how they determine the letter grades changes from class to class; some profs have absolute schemes, some set them based on class performance, and I assume that some profs (luckily none in Engineering) apply the bell curve, which I think means someone has to fail, or at the very least that your grade will go down.

People in other faculties seem to hate it, but it's only ever worked in my favor.

I went to University @ Waterloo and only electives were graded with letters. Most of my courses were graded % wise.

It's more precise, why not use it everywhere?

 

[Ingvina Freyr]

I have a question on your grading system.

So basically since there is no grading below 8th grade in sweden does that mean kids making no progress in basic curriculum or learning anything at all keep going?

That looks like a recipe for failure.

No, you see in every class there is at least one person called "a teacher" who watches out for the kids and make sure they learn the things they're supposed to.

On a more serious note: The Swedish school system is sloppy and need to be revised. The problems however, doesn't IMO lie within the grading sysem.

 

[Jawz II]

Well in America we have
A
B
C
D
F

Starting pretty early on...

What happened to E ?

 

[willemvanoranje]

We have 1-10..10 being "perfect" and 1 being whatever the teacher makes it (usually no right answers given).

 

[Fugitive Sisyphus]

It doesn't really matter whether it's called an F, or an IG, or an FX as long as it shows how well the students are doing.

 

[bhsup]

I recall in early elementary school, Missouri had E(xcellent), S(atisfactory), M(ediocore), I(nferior), F(ail). By the time I was in 4th grade at the latest, they had migrated over to the A, B, C, D, F system.

 

[Gabryel Karolin]

I think the 'no grades before 8th' is a bit missleading since you still have tests, and you will still get a grade, or atleast a score on those tests, so it's not like you will have no clue where you are at in a certain subject. The difference would be that you don't get a paper at the end of the term telling you again what the tests have already told you. The point of this system would be, I guess, not to put too much pressure on young kids and to be completely honest you don't learn anything worth grading anyways. Reading, writing (swe/eng) and basic maths, that's about what you need to know before you proceed to the Gymnasium (High-school?) where you will get grades.

I agree that the current system (IG/G/VG/MVG) has too few grades. I would like the old system of 1-5 back. To have more levels than that I think could be problematic since there is a risk that teachers at different locations would not interpret the presq for the grades in the same way so that students with the same level of knowledge would not get the same grade. This could be solved by have standardized tests being the *only* determinant for the grades. But this is also problematic, especially in humanistic subjects like languages and history where the quality of the work handed in will still be subject to the teachers interpretation, no matter if the questions asked are identical to all students.

At least we got rid of the quoting system where there was a certain number of each grade to be handed out in every class . Only in socialist Sweden : "Everyone is equal, obviously, so let's give each school a fixed number of 5's 4's, etc. to hand out to their students. Because surely you're not suggesting that intelligence is not 100% evenly distributed all over the country?!"

 

[Hitti-Litti]

^^

4-10 is a broad enough, 1-5 may be too small. Though in 4-10 system 4 and 5 mean 1, and 10 and maybe 9 mean 5. And I think that teachers will follow a similar advice, if the change would be done well.

 

[cthom]

the grading system has changed in scotland a lot since i was at school. i keep having to ask people what they mean now. btw what is 8th grade? is that 13 years old? that would be like our 3rd year secondary. i think.


owner of 6 'o' grades, 5 'h' grades, and a CSYS. the days when you could leave school at 15.

 

[Hitti-Litti]

In Finland 8th grade is for 13-14 years old.

 

[Phlegmak]

What happened to E ?

I'm not sure. I guess we only needed four letters to connote "not failing".

 

[Catharsis]

Random Persian: Oh no! I got an IG!
Swede: