People are thinking in terms of grades, where 75% is a C. People think most things are not worse than a C grade (or maybe this is just another example of the pattern I’m seeing)
I don’t think it’s this. Belgium doesn’t use letter-grading and still succumbs to the problem you mentioned in areas outside the classroom.
Points out of a maximum. The teacher is supposed to decide in advance how much points a test will be worth (5, 10, 20 and 25 being common options, but I’ve also had tests where I scored 17,26⁄27) and then decides how much points a question will be worth. You need to get half of the maximum or more for a passing grade.
That’s in high school. In university everything is scored out of a maximum of 20 points.
I don’t think it’s this. Belgium doesn’t use letter-grading and still succumbs to the problem you mentioned in areas outside the classroom.
What do they use instead?
Points out of a maximum. The teacher is supposed to decide in advance how much points a test will be worth (5, 10, 20 and 25 being common options, but I’ve also had tests where I scored 17,26⁄27) and then decides how much points a question will be worth. You need to get half of the maximum or more for a passing grade.
That’s in high school. In university everything is scored out of a maximum of 20 points.