What is the grading system that is most familiar to you?

I experienced the percentage grading system when I was in elementary school and high school. When I went to college it became different. We were graded on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the lowest and 1 being the highest. I can't remember exactly the percentage ranges for every grade, but I remember that 96-100% is equal to 1. I prefer the percentage system because I was able to see my exact grades, which was fairer because having the same grade doesn't mean having the same exact total percentage score. So if I get a 98 and my classmate gets a 96, we would both be graded a 1, which is not fair because I am two points higher.

Don't want to sound like I'm showing off, but I tend to be an A - A+ student. I try my best and hard work and revision pays off. I usually have my scores above 80%, I'm thankful for this, and hope I can carry on like this :)

In our country there is a numeric system used. It ranges from 1 to 5, where 5 is the best mark and 1 is the worst one. I am quite content with the system, although I think it may be too general. Still, when we are doing tests, there is also a total score of points provided, so you actually know, how much of your test was correct. I think that percent grade system is still most precise.

The letter grading system is the most familiar to me. And it is the one that I understand the best. The other system, it requires me to think about where I am more. With the letter system, I'm like "okay I have a B, so I need to do whatever to get that up to an A". The other systems, it causes me to do a bit more thought than I would like to do for something like grades.

Definitely the PERCENTAGE (%) for me. Why? B/c U can't go wrong when U know for a FACT what your GPA is exactly. With 'Letter Grades' it almost impossible to know if U have a solid 4.0 or [3.8-3.9] GPA. The ONLY pro with L/G is people can hide just REALLY DUMB THEY ARE WITH A "C".LOL

In my college it was % system.

I had the letter grade up until highschool and then we got into percentages. I preferred the percentage. For that exact reason that if you got an A+, you wouldn't know if that's a 99% or 100%.. But I think it depends what the grade is on. If you get an A+ on a REPORT CARD, then you don't really know unless you go through all your assignments for that course and see if you aced everything.. But if you got an A+ on one assignment, you can still look to see how you did with answers.. I'd still prefer the percentage system though, that way I don't have to add up my right and wrong answers.

In middle school we had the lettered grading system. Which I guess was fine since I didn't pay much attention to my grades then. Once I hit high school we had the percentage grading and I liked that much better because I knew exactly how I was doing. Like one year I was doing poor in math and then got my mid term report card and saw how bad it was so I pulled my grade up really quickly so I passed that term. So I preferred the percentage grading. I hope when I have kids they have that all through school.

For me in our school they use the percent grade it is better because your excited see it clearly about your grade.

They are in percentage before usually i preschooler, elementary up to high school now the grading in college is in letter grade with equivalent percentage. I prefer the percentage they are only once while a letter grade they are grouped so you could not exactly know what your real grade is..

In the kindergarden and middle school it was letter grading for me and that time i knew that i was doing really bad by not studying and enjoying much it was very good (i thought)because we dont have to worry about anything (A+ means outstanding and so on)and it was always C for me and in our country it was remarked good so my parents did not tell anything after 4 standard i started to fail and just fail and got a dozen of scolding from parents,so it was then(my percentage was near 50%) but i had to struggle because in our family it is all about studies and we have to do it so i just had to struggle now(in 6th also the percentage was same and i got so many beatings even more)then in 7 th standard i knew it should be taken seriously and i did just that and i got a 91% now ,thats what iam saying grading system basically doesnot tell anything about the marks only the ten marks which will make you in that grade and on foolish remark,but percentage doesnot do it like that it will tell it exactly and make you very jealous of others mark and very competitive

We are using letter grade system in our advance education such as academy, university and college. But in lower grade of education, we are using core mark, not in letter, nor in percentage. So, I haven't been introduced yet to percentage grading system here. However, I have ever attended school which has different grading system. The middle school I attended used 'phrase' grading system. I think it is quite similar to letter grading system, but the letter here was replaced by a phrase. Say, if I got 85 or above of overall score of a subject, so I got 'awesome'. Otherwise, if someone got 75, he got 'very good' and so on. Out of all, it was my favorite grading system after all.

I experienced the two type of grading system... the letter grade during Preschool and some subjects in elementary while the percent grade during the elementary up to college. I prefer the percent grade like what you said they show the exact score and that they definitely show you how it ended up in that grade when you compute all your exams and quizzes. I cannot think of anything that is a disadvantage of this grading system except that if you are failing... you really know what your score is... The letter grade, i think is used for children. For me, in my younger years, I liked having the A+ because I certainly know it's the highest... it's a grading system that can be understood by little children. The disadvantage is that you don't know the exact grade and who is higher than who.

back in high school we got this averaging grading system (even in college) where in the value of the subject depends on it's units (overall value). In High School the lowest grade that you can get is 70. The Passing grade is 75. Any grade that is in the line of 7 is considered poor, 80-85 as average, 86-89 as above average and 90+ is considered excellent. Grades are reflected in report card under those numbers (70-100) though I never saw / knew someone crossed the 97 grade. :D Same here in college we got averaging but grades are reflected differently from High School. The lower the number the higher the value. Passing grade is 3 below. If you fail you get 5 automatically (there's no such thing as 3.25,4.5 etc). and 1 being the highest. I'd say 3.0-2.5 is considered bad (but not as bad as getting a line of 7 in HS since college is so difficult!). 2.25-2.0 is considered average to high average, 1.75+ is considered excellent! :D btw I'm from Philippines so I never knew how high those grades are in american movies except that I know obviously that A is a pretty high grade. by the way is there such thing as S grade in america????