where I go to school a 50% is failing... i need to look into transfering if that's not the case at other schools....

What does this mean? I didn't cheat. I would have accepted a failing grade. I know he passed me out of the kindness of his heart.

This was in highschool. Our grading systems are different from the U.S (I live in Canada).

Highschool it went like this:

E (there was no F): 0-49%

D: 50-59%

C: 60-69%

B: 70-79%

A: 80-100%

University - it's the same, only they now use F.

There were also pluses and minues. For example a B- would have been 70-74%, B is 75% and B+ was 76-79%.

What does cheating mean?

-Rudey

Wow...I would've had a 4.0 if I had gone to school in Canada! :) That's an awesome grading scale!

holy cow... my high school grading scale was as follows:

100-93% - A
92-85% - B
84-77% - C
76-69% - D
below 69% - F

except in math where our grading scale was just like most college grading scales:

90-100 - A
80-89 - B
70-79 - C
60-69 - D
below 59 - F

My high school grading scale was similar to yours, mullet:

A = 92 - 100
B = 83 - 91
C = 74 - 82
D = 65 - 73
F = 64 and lower

So it was a relief to go to IU where they used the 90-80-70-60 scale!

My high school grading scale was tough:

100%-94% = A
93%-85% = B
84%-75% = C
74%-65% = D
64%-below = F

The good thing about the system was that if you were in honors/AP, the GPA point scale was 1 point higher. An A was 5 points, a B was 4, etc. But, it never really mattered because every college has a different way of computing your GPA based on their own scale.
I was so happy when I got to college and I was back on a "normal" grading scale (where 90% and above is an A!). Then, during my sophomore year, the college adopted the plus/minus system. :(

Re: I completely bombed a very important test
 

Hopefully you will be able to speak to your prof. about this, but just in case, can't you take the course in one of the summer sessions?

It's not proportional. Think of upper grades as a volume control, the increments are not equal. I don't think any high school in my area had any student past a 96% average during my 5 yrs of hs. The system is meant to discourage perfect scores, for ex. my buddy earned over 100% in OAC (grade 13) in some maths and sciences, but could only receive 99% tops.

I'm not insulting your abilities, doll, just pointing out the fundamental differences.

Well, tell you what. Why don't you report me to the woman who was president at the time? Her name and address:

Dr. Gloria Shatto

Heaven

You went to school in Broward County, didn't you? I was at JPT.

Yup. I was at MSD. Uh oh...rivals! :)

Ok, there's a lot of debate and opinion over this one.

School world aside.... If I found that one of my co-workers was being unethical to the point where the company as endangered, I'd first approach him about it and give him the option to turn himself in. If he didn't, I would voice my concerns. If that sees me as a tattletale, so be it. But I'm committed to my workplace and doing the right thing. Why should we all go down while one person benefits from being unscrupulous? So you tell me, is it better to save the many at the expense of the liar? I think yes.

I think college places us in situations we're going to face in the working world. Yes, we're going to screw up in the real world, but thankfully the grading scale in life is a little more lenient to give us that 90% when maybe we really only earned an 89, because of all the other things we do to make our work meaningful and the best. There's no standardized test for life.

Texas*P, you bombed a test. Talk to your prof. Show him how hard you worked and ask him what you can do to bring up your grade. If he doesn't show leniency, at least you tried. Rules evolve and change, and they do so because people speak up. If you say nothing, then you've learned nothing.

Next, send a letter to the dean and cc the professor about the cheating. I agree, that in order to avoid getting a million dissidents from tp'ing your car and home, should remain anonymous. Cheaters are also notoriously immature.

/End rant.

I wasn't there, and, gladly, will never ever ever have to consider someone from your school my "competition" to care about their inflated scores.

-Rudey