| Captain_Yuri said: Well the concenses thankfully outnumber both so it shouldn't matter too much in terms of where a game should land I am not sure what you mean by this but maybe its cause its different where I live. The way that it works where I live in both university and school is that on ur report card has a grade based on how you did throughout the year and if your final grade on ur course is above a certain %, you pass and if its below, you fail and neither really has anything to do with other students and what they get. So the institution I went to, the % of failure is 70% or below. If you write a test or anything and get below 70%, regardless of what the class average is and what other students get, it is considered a failure. But either ways, the review system wouldn't use universities or collage because they are so varied from program to program (some are 60% while others are 80% and everything inbetween) and not everyone will go to university or collage but majority will go to schools. The schools I went to all have a passing grade of 50%. If you get anything below, you fail I think that 70 makes a game be on "you can buy it without having too many second thoughts" side and everything less is seen has "I should probably skip side." Not to say that everyone judges it like that but based on my experience, its like that And if you are tired, you should get to sleep loll |
I promise I'll go to bed after this post (I love debating :p). I got a few things wrong that I'll clear up. You can pretty much disregard my previous comment.
Basically the pass/fail grade is determined after the test is written and dependent entirely on the rest of the class. The way you mention is what I went through in High School (and what I prefer BTW) and some of my Uni classes. The rest of the classes use the bell curve, which is designed to yield a pre-determined distribution of grades among a class (which I do not like in school but would like for rating a product). Off topic but I envy you if you didn't get bell-curve graded :p.
Most Professors using the curve wants to target a grade of C, which equals a 2.0 GPA, as his/her class average. A is reserved for the top 10%, B for the next 10%, C for the next 60%, and D or F for the remaining 20%. The number you get on your test is most likely inconsequential to the grade you will get (Ex: you get a 90, which usually means an A, but 81% of the class has a 92 or above, you get a D on the test; meaning you were below average).
I guess what I'm saying is so many high numbers are thrown around in VG reviews that the high numbers don't necessarily mean what they used to. 7 means above average yet it has become the average score given out. People rate games too high, and they should be bell-curved or distributed to truly fit the scale of 1-10
*edit* goddamnit my grammar is terrible I'm done lol
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