About my grading scale Aug 01 '07    Write an essay on this topic. Tweet Popular Products in Books Irene Hunt - The Lottery Rose: A Novel From $6 John Steinbeck - East Of Eden From $7 The Bottom Line is Metacritical. There have been some queries about the format of my grading scale. For example: "Rating: A- (88/100)" "But! But! But!" the reader sputters, "Doesn't 88 mean... B+?" If you are in elementary school, yes. But I go by the Metacritic grade conversion scale (http://www.metacritic.com/about/scoring.shtml#scoring), which is thus: A+ (100) A (95) A- (91) B+ (83) B (75) B- (67) C+ (58) C (50) C- (42) D+ (33) D (25) D- (16) F+ (8) F (0) Why is this, you ask? The answer is quite simple: if someone scores a CD a "2 out of 4," they are stating that the record is "okay" -- or, they're giving it a "C." 2 divided by 4 equals 50 percent. Hence, 2/4 = C 2/4 = 50% C = 50% Make sense? I hope so. -T. Speaker Note: The exception is that Metacritic lists an "A" as "100." Note 2: An 88/100 is also why an "A-" grade can be rounded down to "four stars" on the epinions scale. This is why the company should allow half-stars.

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