Was she given the right mark/grade?

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Child scored 14 out of 25 on a History test, what grade do you think they should have got-eg- a C, D, B etc?

D. It's just over 50%.

D

Depends on the difficulty of the test.

Depends on the grade boundaries

It would depend on how the grades are awarded, on the basis of fixed % score or movable grade boundaries based on the marks of the cohort

It's 56% . When I was at school in the early 80s that would be a C. At the time in Scotland 40% -49% =D, 50%-59 % = C and so on. At university it would have been a D.

If this was GCSE them probably a grade 5 judging by the aqa boundaries which is a C+

I thought it should be a C, she was given a D, so I was just curious

It’s not Gcse, a class test for a 13 year old I tutor.

It depends on the paper complexity.

For example, when I did gcse geography, a C on the standard paper was something like 70%, on the higher paper is was more like 45%.

Depends on the age of the child and the difficulty of the test. 14/25 for a y7 on a straightforward test isn’t the same as 14/25 in y11 on a test aimed at grade 7-9

It is totally impossible to know this without knowing the difficulty level of the test and the criteria against which it was being marked! You can't just arbitrarily decide that a certain percentage should be a certain grade, based on nothing at all!

D when I was at school. >=80% was an A, >=70% was a B etc.

It’s 56% which should be a C in the Uk possibly a D but a high one.

Based on what???

How long is a piece of string?

Unless this was a specific past exam paper, for which specific grade boundaries exist, your question is impossible to answer.

Nobody can say because we don't know the grade boundaries.

Does it matter what letter is given, seeing they know the raw score?

Is the graded letter not a bit arbitrary? If it's not a standardised test, can the teacher not just determine what the grade is based on their assessment of the test's difficulty and other people's performance?

@MrsHamletbased on the fact that 50-59% is usually a C but some schools do a variation. Theres no hard and fast rule for general testing.

Usually according to who???

We haven't used letter grades below A level for years.

D

Based on what???

Grade boundaries vary by subject wildly, you're just making things up based on fuck all...

Last year you needed 148/200 to get a 9 in Chemistry, but 161/200 to get the same grade in Physics, and 166/200 in Biology.

qualifications.pearson.com/content/dam/pdf/Support/Grade-boundaries/GCSE/grade-boundaries-june-2024-gcse.pdf

Is 56% a better mark if it's graded as a C instead of a D?