I have a bunch of longer hairs growing on my elbow where a scar is.
rumham
it means you have cancermtb0minime wrote:
I have a bunch of longer hairs growing on my elbow where a scar is.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
you mocking me, son?Doctor Strangelove wrote:
hoors
My university solves this by giving everything as a percentage. Letter grades are used only when the prof wants to skew the grades at the end of the year.
The shape of an eye in front of the ocean, digging for stones and throwing them against its window pane. Take it down dreamer, take it down deep. - Other Families
Not as if grading in the US system isn't a piece of piss anyway. Fucking mong.
libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual. http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/
@Pochsy that makes more sense
@Zeek welcome back
@Zeek welcome back
Ah... hello Uzi.
I stood in line for four hours. They better give me a Wal-Mart gift card, or something. - Rodney Booker, Job Fair attendee.
That quote I got from a Reader in my department says it all about US grading tbh. 40+% get A's at Harvard for their papers? If you can't get a 3.75+ GPA then what the fuck are you even doing (other than eating 4 pizzas a week and masturbating yourself into early-onset RSI)
libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual. http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/
I never said I can't get a good GPA zeek, although I do agree that it shocks me how so many people don't seem to get good grades.
According to the grade conversion used by grad schools here, I have a perfect 4.0GPA. And I spent 2 years fucked out of my brain on drugs. If you are worried about +/- grade boundaries then you need to take a jump into the Chesapeake.
libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual. http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/
Why is it a problem?
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
His dad will cut him off from his Domino's Pizza tab if he brings in anything less than a B-
Last edited by Uzique (2012-04-03 18:29:03)
libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual. http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/
What's the conversion system you're using? In Canada you can't get a 4.0CGPA unless you achieve at least an 85 in every single class you take, which is near impossible. Even our Rhodes Scholars only get around 3.8s on average (with a huge amount of extra circulars and work experience).
I only have a 3.9. Total failure in Uzique's eyes.
I only have a 3.9. Total failure in Uzique's eyes.
The shape of an eye in front of the ocean, digging for stones and throwing them against its window pane. Take it down dreamer, take it down deep. - Other Families
meh, GPA
Got yer' taxes in yet Jay?
I stood in line for four hours. They better give me a Wal-Mart gift card, or something. - Rodney Booker, Job Fair attendee.
85!?Pochsy wrote:
What's the conversion system you're using? In Canada you can't get a 4.0CGPA unless you achieve at least an 85 in every single class you take, which is near impossible. Even our Rhodes Scholars only get around 3.8s on average (with a huge amount of extra circulars and work experience).
I only have a 3.9. Total failure in Uzique's eyes.
85 gets you a 3.0 in the states.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
I had to pay taxes this year. So fucking stupid.
Did em last month. Got my federal back but my state takes longer and longer to pass a budget every year so probably mid-may for that13rin wrote:
Got yer' taxes in yet Jay?
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
Welcome to carrying the water! I'm in the hole at the moment. Can't finish though as the fucking daycare didn't give me the year end... Or they did, and I don't know where the fuck I put it. Nah, this happens every year.
I stood in line for four hours. They better give me a Wal-Mart gift card, or something. - Rodney Booker, Job Fair attendee.
Ugh.. That's right, you do State too...Jay wrote:
Did em last month. Got my federal back but my state takes longer and longer to pass a budget every year so probably mid-may for that13rin wrote:
Got yer' taxes in yet Jay?
I stood in line for four hours. They better give me a Wal-Mart gift card, or something. - Rodney Booker, Job Fair attendee.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_un … omparisonsPochsy wrote:
What's the conversion system you're using? In Canada you can't get a 4.0CGPA unless you achieve at least an 85 in every single class you take, which is near impossible. Even our Rhodes Scholars only get around 3.8s on average (with a huge amount of extra circulars and work experience).
I only have a 3.9. Total failure in Uzique's eyes.
I averaged 76 overall. One of my papers that I did under one of the world's foremost Conrad scholars netted me an 86, which is the equivalent of a double-starred first at Oxbridge (I won a prize and some money for it). So yes, you are an irredeemable failure to me.
I'm just kidding, but seriously it seems like a midway 3-something GPA is the equivalent to a 'decent' degree over here. Add that to the fact that this is the general impression of things in academia:
- and I'd really stop worrying.As an American who studied in the US before undertaking her D.Phil and teaching at Oxford between 1994 and 2001, I'd like to make a few observations.
Firstly, the amount of material studied at the undergraduate level in one's general subject area (i.e., English, history, classics, etc.) is much more thorough in the UK. While the advantage of an American education involves a broader, more comprehensive acquaintance of areas outside his/her general subject area, the corresponding disadvantage is that one obtains less knowledge within.
In fact, on the occasions that I've shown copies of university finals to American college/uni instructors, their first remark was that British finals greatly resemble the comprehensives taken by American GRADUATE students at the end of their second year. (Comps determine whether you proceed to the Ph.D.--or not.) American instructors will also stand aghast when they are told that undergrads are expected to produce a 6000 word essay--WITHOUT supervision--in 2 weeks' time after 6 weeks of guided preparation by a tutor.
Secondly, the manner in which student work is assessed in the UK is considerably different, with the particular distinction that examinations are not only submitted partly anonymously, with names replaced by candidate numbers, but ALSO marked by at least 2 different faculty members within the university and one outside of it. At American universities, exams and papers at are graded by the instructor teaching the class. Moreover, given the increasingly prevailing customer ethos in the US, there is far more grade inflation as well. Whereas firsts (summa cum laude) comprise about a quarter of the paper grades in Oxbridge, the equivalent in the US--an A--comprises nearly 45% of all grades.
As such, given the level of knowledge expected for graduate study in the UK, or at least at Oxbridge, many Americans end up dropping out or being booted out--including those from the Ivies and other comparable elite universities. (I was fortunate not to be casualty!) This is a problem compounded by the fact that there is less "hand-holding" in the UK; you are expected to research and arrive at your own thesis topic independently. Sink or swim.
Last edited by Uzique (2012-04-03 18:37:52)
libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual. http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/
City takes its cut too13rin wrote:
Ugh.. That's right, you do State too...Jay wrote:
Did em last month. Got my federal back but my state takes longer and longer to pass a budget every year so probably mid-may for that13rin wrote:
Got yer' taxes in yet Jay?
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
A mark of 85, I imagine. Not the same as 80%. A 70 is pretty much the ceiling in the British mark-system (which I presume they use in Canada). Anything over a 70 is just the marker/Professor unnecessarily lavishing you with brownie-points and award-stars, because a 70 is the absolute top grade attainable (except for double-starred Firsts, which are rare and only actually granted by Oxbridge)Jay wrote:
85!?Pochsy wrote:
What's the conversion system you're using? In Canada you can't get a 4.0CGPA unless you achieve at least an 85 in every single class you take, which is near impossible. Even our Rhodes Scholars only get around 3.8s on average (with a huge amount of extra circulars and work experience).
I only have a 3.9. Total failure in Uzique's eyes.
85 gets you a 3.0 in the states.
libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual. http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/