After my day trip to Nice, going to class today was very difficult. It was an afternoon class, too, so it really should not have been that hard, but I had a presentation due on Edgar Degas and so I was nervous about that. I thought that I did really well, and so did my classmates, but when I got her notes/grade back at the end of the class, when she was passing out papers, my score said "13/20." WHAT!
Well, it turns out that most French grading systems go like this:
"18-20 : Congratulations (félicitations du jury not an official grade)
16-17,9 : very good (très bien : TB)
14-15,9 : good (bien : B)
12-13,9 : satisfactory (assez bien : AB)
10-11,9 : correct (correcte not an official grade)
8-10 : pass ("passable") as long as the overall average of grades remains above 10 - not an official grade
0-8: Fail (insuffisant)"
So while I thought that 13 was practically failing (because in America, it would be a mid-D), it actually was "satisfactory."
At least now I know!
After class, I went to the park with Nika to meet up with Merlin and Martin and we had discussions about universities and grading systems and psychological experiments, etc. Quite interesting, especially for me hearing how all these different people phrase things in English that I would never have said when trying to get such a point across. That, and hearing them really be able to communicate their ideas very well even though English is not their first language. Of course, I would consider them all to be fluent or near fluent, so it's no surprise, but it is still cool.
Anyway, I'm going to go to bed and sleep well before my morning class tomorrow!
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