Jaqi, thanks for that. It seems that there were/are many different ways of doing this. It might even be at the level of individual schools.
Otto
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On 22 May 2025, at 17:32, Jaqi Thompson via groups.io <yywomyn@...> wrote:
Oh, Otto,
I wasn¡¯t gonna engage on this classwork marking, but you asked ¡ in my Oregon elementary school in the 1950¡¯s and high school in the 1960¡¯s, we usually got a red pencil slash through a wrong answer, no marks on correct answers. Then the same red pencil was used to write the percentage of correct answers, plus a grade, at the top of the test.
Getting every single answer correct meant a big red ¡°100% A+ ¡° at the top right of the first page. Getting two wrong, out of say, 10 questions, got two red slashes, then an ¡°80% B-¡° written at the top. A¡¯s were always from 90% - 100%; B¡¯s were usually from 80% - 89%, but maybe as low as 75%; C¡¯s were usually from 60%-79% but could stop at 75%; D¡¯s were usually from 50% - 60%, but still a passing grade, though shamefully low; and F¡¯s were a failing grade, which was anything less than 50%. In short, the more red marks throughout the test, the worse you did.
