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Originally posted by JeremyALD
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Can someone explain how a B+ is 83/100?
Here and all over the world a B+ is 75/100 and A- is 80/100.
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First off, that second part of your comment isn't true at all. Grading scales differ quite a bit from country to country. For example, in the United States of America* and Saudi Arabia, the grading scale goes like this:
A-range = 90-100%
B-range = 80-89%
C-range = 70-79%
D-range = 60-69%
F = 0-59%
*Some schools in Louisiana, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee use a slightly different scale, but they are the exception, not the norm.
In Canada, different provinces use completely different scales.
In some countries, they don't use letter grades at all. Some use numbers. Examples: Ukraine uses a 1-12 scale, Romania and Mexico (and many more) use 1-10, and countries like Serbia and Russia (and many more) use a 1-5 scale. New Zealand uses 1-9 and Iran uses a 20-point scale. Or take Australia, they use:
BAND 6= 90-100%
BAND 5 = 80-89%
BAND 4 = 70-79%
BAND 3 = 60-69%
BAND 2 = 50-59%
BAND 1 = 0-49%
And some countries, like Iraq, use words:
Excellent = 90–100%
Very Good = 79–89%
Good = 70–78%
Adequate = 60–69%
Acceptable = 50–59%
Weak/Failure = 0–49%
BUT. We aren't talking about standard grading scales across the globe. We are talking about Metacritic. My sole purpose for the first chunk of this comment was to inform you that you are dead wrong that "all over the world a B+ is 75/100 and A- is 80/100." ...In some places, maybe, but not all over the world.
The second part of my comment, is to explain to you how Metacritic's grading scale works. They use a weighted scale for Music and Movies (grading on a curve, basically.) According to them, they do it that way so that the scores don't all clump together.
And here is how letter grades convert to numbers on Metacritic:
A or A+ = 100
A- = 91
B+ = 83
B = 75
B- = 67
C+ = 58
C = 50
C- = 42
D+ = 33
D = 25
D- = 16
F+ = 8
F or F- = 0
So there you go! Now you know how a B+ only equals an 83%, plus I armed you with the knowledge that grading scales differ widely from place to place.
