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Courteous urinator
Alright, so I went to the University of Birmingham for a semester, back in 2006, through an exchange program at my university here in Vancouver. I know I 'passed' the three classes/modules or whatever the hell you Brits call them. But until now, I never knew my marks. I'm applying to law here in Canada, and as such, they want transcripts from all of the post-secondary institutions I've attended, including Birmingham. My question is thus...how do 'marks' ascribed in British schools compare to those in North America? What constitutes a 'good' grade? All that's been indicated on the transcripts I've just received from Birmingham are the 'results' from the courses (PASS), and a 'mark', which I'm assuming is a percentage. I took a few political science courses, and I'm just wondering what an average grade is; I was told there would be some sort of conversion chart on the back of the transcripts, but there's nothing. I don't think these marks transfer directly to what is assigned here in Canada, ie. an 80 as indicated on the Bham transcript isn't an 80% at UBC, given that a passing grade at Bham is 40.