Do think that the grading system can make a grade lower than F?

Do you think that if there was something so horrible that it deserved a very low grade beyond an F.My dad once said he had a school that had a grade lower than F and it was called a S.All I can guess it means "you suck at life".

Well, we have a whole trope on that - F--

I have definitely heard of any number of weird systems for grading, though I've never seen anyone give or receive a grade of F— through Z.

S could have either meant really good or really bad. This is why they dropped it: lack of consistency between grading scales.

I do believe there is such a thing as an F- in some places, though.

I don't see why we'd bother. The only thing worse than an F is an "I for incomplete," which my history teacher threatens us with as a joke, along with summer school.

edited 3rd Sep '11 8:54:00 AM by USAF713

S stands for satisfactory, which is the best grade you can get for things not graded on a letter basis.

An incomplete means you're getting more time to submit your work and receive a grade. How is that worse than an F?

Over here we don't even have an F. If you get a D you're royally fucked, and if you get anything lower than a B- you can expect to be chewed out. Good times.

Though even failing is better than an E.

edited 3rd Sep '11 8:59:14 AM by Heartbreaker

I mean if a teacher thought something was so horrible that a new grade had to be made to show how bad it was.They could go with a "Z" it's funny and rages with dissapointment.

Incomplete at my school counts as an F (so people don't blow it off, as it is already changing their GPA), but is seen as ceremonially "worse" because you didn't even try and fail, you just didn't try.

My history teacher's joke is that he can change your grade for the whole course to incomplete and then send you to summer school.

at my school you can get a U, which stands for "Unscorable".

Basically it means you missed so many assignments they have no way of knowing whether or not you passed or failed, so they just fail you to be safe.

Over here we've got

15-13 points / Grade 1: Very good

12-10 points / Grade 2: Good

9-7 points / Grade 3: Satisfactory

6-4 points / Grade 4: Sufficient

3-1 points / Grade 5: Flawed

0 points / Grade 6: Insufficient (also reserved for "Attempt of deception" and "Refusal of work")

"I mean if a teacher thought something was so horrible that a new grade had to be made to show how bad it was."

That would be highly un-pedagogical and puerile. The point of being a teacher is not only to educate, but to foster a learning spirit where there is none. Ridiculing someone for not knowing or not caring is about the worst thing an educator should do.

I been watching too much TV then because that is certainly what Mr.Crocker would do.I don't know I heard real reports of sadist teachers that crush the students' spirit and it would be in their nature to give the students that do really bad a grade that low.

At my university, some courses require you to pass in everything to get the credit; so an Incomplete is worse than a Failure. You can still pass in an Incomplete, even if its so late that you basically get a 0% on it to get a mark. If its a smaller assignment (work like, 1.5% of your final grade) than you can easily make up elsewhere. If its a term paper; you are probably screwed.

An incomplete, as far as I've heard, becomes an F if not completed within a year, no?

^^ I don't know who Mr. Crocker is, but the fucks who do that to their students should be disciplined by their departments.

edited 3rd Sep '11 9:15:09 AM by kashchei

Mr.Crocker from the Fairly Odd Parents you may have not seen the show.I rememebr he gave Timmy(the main character)a super F.Yeah,in real life Mr.Crocker would have been fired.

Fairly Odd Parents is a cartoon.

Anyway, yes sadistic teachers exist, I'd know, I've had one or two, but there's a difference between teachers who just suck at their jobs and ones who are actually sadistic.

I would presume so. I've never gotten one, so...

"Mr.Crocker from the Fairly Odd Parents you may have not seen the show."

No, um, that's a little bit after my time.

In IT, we've got something worse than F... WTF (which is the acronym of both what the fuck and worse than fail).

Of course, the usage is unofficial.

IIRC Will Smith would give you a G if you sucked at the Men In Black ride at Universal.

Fubar

I once got a grade so bad it was officially marked as Absent.

Oh and in fact my school also offered Ungraded if you didn't try at all.

My high school hosted a symphonic band competition, and the judges just refused to grade one of the schools that participated on account of an actual score being more depressing.

There'd be no point. If you add something lower than the worst (or higher than the best), one of two things happens- Either it becomes the new "worst" (or "best") and it's effectively the same as an F (A) is now, or it doesn't make a difference because an F (A) is still failing (Passing) anyway.

Anecdotally, I've known at least two teachers who've given students negative grades on tests before, although the first was as a punishment (the student kept talking throughout the test so she kept knocking points off) and the second was due to how the assignment was graded (we were told not to use certain words in a paper and that she'd take off points for every use).

edited 3rd Sep '11 12:54:19 PM by Wulf

To my knowledge, the British system (at least for scoring GCSEs) runs from A* to F, then G, and then U.