not only am I now older than Sam Winchester was when Supernatural started, but I am currently the same age as or older than Jared Padalecki was when filming of the first season of Supernatural began.
look I’m not saying this is a good thing but I am saying that I’m capable of eating an entire quart of ice cream in a single day
Heartbreaking Simpsons Moments 1/∞: Bart Gets an F
I never understood why it’s an F if he gets more than half out of 100? Unless it’s more than 100. If you get more than half the answers right how is it an F?
You must not be from America. Here, grading is fucked up.
Average American Grading Scale: A+- 97-100 A – 94-96 A- – 90-93 B- 80-89 C- 70-79 D- 60-69 F- 59 and under
oh wow that is fucked up
why do they skip E in america
There’s an E in other grading scales?
And in some places in America it goes by a 7 point scale, so it’d be A – 100-93 B – 92-85 C – 84-78 D – 77-70 F – 69 and below
Now you understand why American kid’s feel like there’s no point to school. If you have a 100 question text, and get 79 of them correct, that’s a C. That mean’s your Average Intelligence on this particular subject. And it get’s even worse when you have only like… a 10 question quiz. If you get two wrong? that’s a B. 80 fucking %. Now tell me again why American school’s are easier?
No wait but whats the grading system in other countries?
UK Grading Scale
100-70: A
69-60: B
59-50: C
49-40: D
Below 40: F
ARE YOU FUCKING WITH ME?! THATS INSANE!!!!
next time you try to tell americans that we’re stupid
i’m gonna remind you
that our “average” is your “A”
French system: a grade on 20, 40 on big exams, 10 for short tests. There are no real levels but kids made them: above 15 is great, above 10 is good, above 5 is a bit low and under 5 is bad. We are only judged by our unofficial system we do by ourselves, teachers often announce an average on tests so you know how good you did. And it’s better like this.
If you want to know why the United States has one of the highest student depression/anxiety rates in the world, please examine this post. Americans aren’t stupid, our grading scale is much harder.
As someone who grades in the UK (including US graduate students coming over to study) trust me when I say that – at least in the text-based subjects – it is rare that we give any paper a 70. If you get an 80 you are pretty super fantastic. If you get a 90, we more or less think that your paper deserves to be published in a peer-reviewed journal.
I have taught Uni since 1993 and I have given a 90+ ONCE in my entire career, an 80+ maybe 15 times and a 70+ on average to one student in ten per exam. We don’t mark on a bell curve like some of the US but we’re still stingy with the grades. So if you get a 70, you are by no means average, your are pretty damn good.
Oh wait are you trying to recall/name a Paul Simon song? Because I know most of them I bet I could help.
WE ARE! I would definitely appreciate some assistance!
It reminds me a lot of Under African Skies, but it isn’t that? It’s very similar musically, though, with the jaunty guitars and so on? idkkk, they’ve started playing it on the radio a lot and it reminds me of Teal, which is probably not helpful in identifying the song, but is why we’re trying to figure out which one it is?
Oooh. Oooooooooooooooohhh. Six… dozen…? What a way to kick the bucket, that’s all I’m saying. Thank you! One thing tho: I tend to reduce the amount of sugar when I’m using American recipes because they usually produce much sweeter results than we are used to. How much do you think I could cut it back without destroying the balance of it?
Brown sugar usually has a more complex, less sweet-for-the-sake-of-sweet, taste than white sugar, so I’d suggest you could maybe cut the white sugar back to ¾ cup but add another TBS or so of brown sugar to start? Brown sugar’s also moister than white sugar (and that’s one of the things sugar adds to baked goods, more sugar = moister end product), so I wouldn’t recommend cutting any of it for that reason as well. If it’s still too sweet at that point, I’d start dialing back on both sugars (brown sugar is also denser than white sugar, so you don’t want to get the ratio too far out of whack) but start adding a touch of milk to compensate?
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