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As on a school report card - which term do you use?

Grades.

My parents said grades. I remember my grandfather that was from Kentucky always saying marks and my grandmother using both terms. I’m not sure if it was more of a regional, generational thing or both. My grandparents would be about 100 now.

Grades are an indicator of performance. Marks are an expression of grades

We called them grades.

My dad usually called them marks while mom said grades. My marks/grades should have been much better, but I never tried. I wish I had.

As a college instructor - Grades - ea. semester

which resulted in Re-marks, so both basically.

I didn't give out grades, I just wrote them in the book

On my report cards?

"A's"

Georgia schools I remember

F- failure
N needs improvement
S satisfactory
E excellent

What we had in the little school I went to until we were bussed to a different town for high school.

The grading system when I was in school and the home result:

A: That's what's expected.
B: Wouldn't take much to make that an A.
C: Visit with teacher coming.
D: Don't know - didn't happen (hid in clubhouse if it had).
F: Again, didn't happen (headed for Canada directly from school if it had).

Like Rodney Dangerfield, it warnt the questions I hade trouble with, it was the answers.

Grandma said marks, Mom and Dad called them grades.
I always did pretty well in school, despite never taking a book home after 10th grade. If it didn’t get done in study hall, I didn’t lose any sleep over it.
With a garage to wrench in in the evening and constantly stuff to do, school wasn’t real high on my priority list .
Bs and Cs in English and Math, As & Bs in everything else.
I was a natural reader when I wasn’t outside the house.
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Grandma Busch called them marks

Marks and grades are two different things to me, with grades being derived from the mark you got. For example, a mark of 95/100, is a grade "A" or "high distinction", while a mark of 51/100 is a grade "D" or "pass". Less than 50 and your grade is "fail".

My kids' school reports, until year 12, had the mark for each subject shown on a chart, showing the kid's numerical mark compared with the class average, year average, middle 50%, maximum and minimum mark for the year. That way you had a good picture of where your kid's mark placed them compared with others. They would also grade them on various behavioural ratings, so you could see for example whether your kid works hard and takes an interest or is lazy and a bit of a dickhead.

There's also a national exam here every two years, in maths and English, and the results show your child's mark compared to national benchmarks, so you get a mark and a grade. For example, your year seven kid might get 92% for English, and a grade of Band 9 (ie meet the benchmark for Year 9). The results are also available by school, so you can see if your kid's school is doing well or poorly too.

We got grades. I remember thinking at the time that they were important. Not really so much. Literally NOBODY later asked to see my HS grades. When I went to a community college they just wanted to see a diploma. Later on, universities only wanted my college transcripts. I’m glad to have learned a lot in HS but regret having stressed for one minute about a grade.

Grades.

This was the grading scale in my public high school.

96-100=A
90-95=B
80-89=C
75-80=D
74 and below=F

Well, maybe your grades didn't follow you throughout your life, but how about your PERMANENT RECORD? (You know, the one where every transgression that you committed would be chiseled into stone to haunt your every step from that day forward.)

There is nothing more ridiculous than a UNIFORM GRADING SCALE based on percentages. How in hell is a written assignment supposed to be graded on a percentage basis? Even when there is a basis for figuring %, there is vast difference between a 20-question geometry test and a 125-question, true/false history test.

I have a wife for that. 😳

God, however, has forgiven me. So I guess it will work out fine.