16/20 Grade, Good?
I received a 16 out of 20 on my assignment, but I'm not familiar with this grading scale. How does this compare to the standard A-F grading system? Thanks for any help!
In my high school classes, we calculated that a 16/20 was an 80% (just divide 16 by 20 and multiply by 100). I remember being pretty happy whenever I saw a score like this because it usually meant a solid B grade.
My teachers typically used this scale:
- 90-100% (18-20 points) = A range
- 80-89% (16-17 points) = B range
- 70-79% (14-15 points) = C range
- 60-69% (12-13 points) = D range
- Below 60% (under 12 points) = F
Getting a 16/20 meant you were doing pretty well! I remember when I first got grades like this in freshman year, I'd sometimes worry because it wasn't an A, but by junior year, I realized that B grades were actually really respectable, especially in harder classes like AP Biology or Advanced Math.
One trick I learned from my favorite English teacher was to always double any score out of 20 to quickly get the percentage - so 16/20 doubled is 32/40, which simplifies to 80%. I still remember using this shortcut all through high school!
Another way to calculate this percentage is multiply both 16 and 20 by 5 so that the 20 becomes 100 and the 16 becomes an 80. 80 out of 100 is 80% and is generally a B- grade.
Want to know some other grade calculation tricks we used to use? They really came in handy when trying to figure out what score I needed on finals to keep my grade where I wanted it!
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