08 Nov The US grading system
When studying abroad, you will probably encounter another grading system from the one in your home country. In the US people typically use letter grades (A+, A, A−; B+, B, B−; C+, C, C−; D+, D, D−; F). In the Netherlands we scale from 1 to 10, with 10 being the best and 1 being a bad grade.
This difference was quite confusing to me at first. I received an A- for an essay but I wasn’t sure what kind of grade this would be back home. I think it converts to a grade of 9.1 in the Netherlands.
Some other classes grade with percentages, so out of a 100%. This makes more sense to me as it’s quite similar to the Dutch grading system.
I know that in other European countries, people use other grading systems as well. In Germany, for example, the grading scale used is a 6-point scale. In France, students are scored on a scale of 0-20 and in Luxembourg the grade system goes from 1-60.
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