new ontario marking scheme (levels)

[PaddyLong]

this is something that seems interesting to me... pretty much anyone who doesn't go to my school that I talk to seems to be getting far higher marks than anyone at my school
for example... some girl who goes to my school and is like one of the top 2 or 3 students graduating (so she's obviously pretty smart) got turned down from a couple universities because her average wasn't a 90 or something... but at our school the highest you can really get is an 89 (sometimes you can get a low 90, but those are rare) and that's doing really well (like the smartest kids at our school get 89's type of thing)

[krishon]

ye..same...but i dunno the marking scheme in my private school has changed.....i have an 89 for the final term....but i can do much better...ppl at my school have 97 avgs... i know its nuts...

[Asok]

let's just say I have 4 +'s after my A currently, I don't see how that's supposed to work but I wont complain

[Catalyst]

some teachers in my school use it some dont
some of them use it stupidly tho, for examples shell give a lvl 4 on a perfect paper then count it in the final mark as an 85

[PaddyLong]

yeah that's exactly what I'm talking about Catalyst... the levels are too limiting compressing a range of 50 marks into 12 ... that just doesn't cut it

(not that I care any more... was just curious to see what was happening at other schools)

[Tony]

i dont think we use levels... much... I know I'm getting 95 in compsci and we got that one girl in school thats getting like 99.5 in bio

[naoki]

i think there's supposed to be some new marking scheme, but only the science teachers use it. basically instead of giving you one mark they split it up into knowledge & understanding, inquiry, making connections and application (not sure about last one).

that makes it really confusing, because she'll never give us a direct mark, but she's never disagreed when we take our mark as the total. so, is this the marking scheme you guys are talking about?

[PaddyLong]

that's part of it... but rather than getting an actual percentage, you just get like a 1, 2, 3 or 4 and then added on can be +/- the way it works at my school is that 1 is 55 and 1- is 52 and 1+ is 57 and then it goes like that for 2 and 3 but with 60's (ie 62, 65, 67) and 70's and then a 4 is 89 4- is 83 and 4+ is 93 ... basically it's like the letter grades but with numbers

[Andy]

the science thing is so gay... i'm failing science cause i dun have any communication skills

[Asok]

the level system is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Do they think teachers can't count or something? If they are just replacing A,B,C,D with 1,2,3,4 then the board should all be fired because that's a total waste of money to keep them there. The money could then be used to increase teacher's sallaries because to be honest, they deserve more than what they get now.

[krishon]

ye...i agree too...its a useless system

[SilverSprite]

hmm i think they just don't want students in canada to get close to 100% or something? maybe so they can keep the students in canada instead of having them move on over to the states?

[krishon]

that's stupid...if ur reaosn is really true, kill whoever is in charge of education....but it depends...if the brain drain is really really big...then they have a point, otherwise...its stupid.

[Asok]

SilverSprite, that's flawed logic because the minister of education would want reports to show higher marks to display he's doing a good job not lower marks. Why would the minister of education diliberately harm their own reputation? Your reasoning doesn't make sense.

[AsianSensation]

aren't we copying the states then? if we are using level 1 - 4, they have been using it for a long long time now....maybe it's because we are so close to USA?