Am 21.09.2011 12:41, schrieb Invisible:
>>> This is The Real WTF.
>>>
>>> A student's grades should *always* be based on fixed criteria. Otherwise
>>> the grades only compare you to your classmates.
>>
>> A relative grade does ok, provided the candidate employees provide
>> information on which school/university they visited.
>
> Ideally, a grade B should be a grade B, regardless of where you got it.
> (Obviously there will always be a slightly subjective element to
> teaching and grading methods, but we should try to be as objective as we
> can.)

I didn't contradict that fixed criteria for a grade are superior to 
variable grades; all I said was that non-fixed grades are also able to 
do the job grades were invented for.

That aside, I don't think that there is such thing as "ideal" when it 
comes to grades. They're just a kludge to rate a person's capabilities 
anyway. Your math grade doesn't tell much about whether you'd make a 
good accountant; your native language grade doesn't tell much about 
whether you'd make a good news reporter; your informatics grade doesn't 
tell much about whether you'd make a good system administrator, database 
engineer or software developer.

Actually, an employer's primary concern may often be stuff that's not in 
the grades at all: Soft skills. Are you good at communicating with 
others? Are you good at motivating yourself/others? How do you perform 
under pressure? Are you good at cooperation (teamwork)? Are you good at 
competition (marketing strategies)?

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