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• TheLowestStone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  65/100 is a D. Anything lower is an F.

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  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe where you went to school. I always had Fs at 59% and under… just like in Wikipedia’s article. en.wikipedia.org/…/Academic_grading_in_the_United…

    I attended and worked in a couple schools in the states. I saw some alternatives like pass / fail and SBG, but whenever it was the A-F system, 60% was a D-

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• RazgrizOne@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh interesting. My schools were 69 and under was F. My understanding was 65 was a typical cutoff

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  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I would argue under 60 = F is the norm. It’s even quite a common trope in movies / TV. Example:

    collider.com/the-simpsons-bart-gets-an-f/

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    • RazgrizOne@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I actually did mean 60, just dat fingered the 5

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  • ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You got F’d when you 69’d in school? Sounds wild.

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    • RazgrizOne@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I guess I did kind of perfectly tee that one up didn’t I

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