Why does Canada seem to have a different grading system than the US? why is 80% is considered an A?

Because they don't curve their grades like dumb amerifats do

S: 100
A+: 99.999...-97
A: 96-94
A-: 93-90
B+: 89-87
B: 86-84
B-: 83-80
C+: 79-77
C: 76-74
C-: 73-70
D+: 69-67
D: 66-64
D-: 63-60
F: 59-0
P: 100-70
NP: 69-0
A++: Black or Woman or Gay or Special Ed

your retarded

Giving an 80 an A might as well be curving it. Just because you changed the letter and not the number doesn't make it any different.

>implying you know what 80 means without knowing the difficulty

>S
This doesn't exist

I didn't, though. And the exact same could be said about Americlaps adding a +10% curve.

why do all the chads go to electrical, civil, chemical, and mechanical engineering. never see any in software or computer.

all grading systems are meaningless, only cause unnecessary stress, undermine performance of anxious people and should be abolished

So then what incentive would there be to learn the material thoroughly and how would people know who's better qualified?

its called curving. they realize a few percentage of canadites are not normally smart enough to achieve such grades as the legendary 10/10 on a pop quiz. so they lower the percentage threshold to make 80% seem like its a good score.

Canada here, the 80% = A is meaningless because if you were to do something like apply to a US medical school, they would just convert that 80% to the corresponding grade point used by that institution.

Expectations are adjusted accordingly, and people in general tend not to speak in letter grades and refer to top marks as "getting +90s" instead of "getting As"

It literally makes no difference

ignore the stupid letter and just look at the percentage. boom. problem solved

you think grades do any of these?
TOP KEK

why? some classes have ~30% averages with half drop out rate.

t. 2.8 gpa smart but lazy

no, t. european who doesn't give a fuck about your superficial grading system

90/93-100 (varies): A
80-89/92 (varies accordingly with an A): B
70-79:C
60-69:D
0-59: F
There is a lot of variation for +'s and -'s so I am not going to even bother.

Yes

>he just got A+s and not Ss in his college
how's the burger flipping going?

99.999... = 100

Here's how it is in schools that don't cater to brainlets

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It's different all over Canada, even within a province. My school happened to use this system (it sucked) but other schools used completely different ones

in graduate school over like 70% is an A in most of the classes.

Fuck the median grade in this one machine learning class was 50%, C is considered failing so the people who got 50% got a B at least.

But the Canadian GPAs are usually below 3.0 even with this scale. It's because the grading is more difficult than American ones. There's less grade inflation (although it's still there), presumably due to no Vietnam draft happening. We also don't have bullshit general eds to the same extent that Americans do. You go straight into your major in the first semester and take like 5 courses (or 6 if engineering) that are all (mostly) related to your major.

gradeinflation.com/

At the bottom it shows Canadian schools. Every single one has a GPA of less than 3 for every single year except one of them which his 3.00 and 3.01 for a couple years.

pic related, Canada's best enginering school's gpa.