›
If you have an email ending in @hotmail.com, @live.com or @outlook.com (or any other Microsoft-related domain), please consider changing it to another email provider; Microsoft decided to instantly block the server's IP, so emails can't be sent to these addresses.
If you use an @yahoo.com email or any related Yahoo services, they have blocked us also due to "user complaints"
-UE

Why is a D some times a pass?

nuclearneo577nuclearneo577
edited 2011-02-07 21:56:50 in General
For all my life before high school, I have known a D to be a fail. Not as bad as a F, but still bad. And now in High school, its suddenly a pass. What the heck?

Comments

  • snowbullsnowbull
    edited 2011-02-07 21:59:37
    Cue-bey
    A failure results in you not passing a course in high school, so a D would be a pass, but just barely.

    Maybe it works differently in the US.

    What bugs me more is the skipping of E. What the hell?
  • nuclearneo577nuclearneo577
    edited 2011-02-07 22:06:47
    I still get at least C's, but yeah. It's still weird. ^^I agree, what happened to E?
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    edited 2011-02-07 22:07:50
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Depends on your school and country.

    ^There's no E because anything below D is a failure, or F.
  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled
    Isn't F short for "fail"? If so, it'd be pretty silly if other letters can also be failing marks...

    That said, I've heard that 60% being the minimum passing grade is normal in American high schools, which seems weird...
  • DYREDYRE
    In my high school, 65% was the minimum passing grade.
  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
    edited 2011-02-07 22:51:46
    At my school, a "D" is considered a pass, but if the course is a prerequisite for something else, you need at least a "C" to move on to the next class.

    Though my school also uses "E" as the lowest grade, so yeah, we're just weird.
  • ElectivirusElectivirus
    In my high school, anything 70% and above was considered a passing grade. That would be a "D" or above, btw.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    I thought E was supposed to be F rebranded so as to not evoke the idea of "failure", despite being exactly the same thing.

    Also, I thought D tended to be counted as passing.
  • LongfellowLongfellow
    La vie en rose
    Depends heavily on the school.
  • TheJackalTheJackal
    I wear a Stetson now. Stetsons are cool.
    Over here, you only need 40% to have technically passed. Having said that, most people still don't think of a D or E as being good grades even if they aren't fails.
  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    D = Pass = Good
  • snowbullsnowbull
    Cue-bey
    It takes 50% to pass where I live, but I think 60% would be better. They want you to remember more than half of what they teach you, right?
Sign In or Register to comment.